· Private foundation
Coussens Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Fair Underwriters Inc | $12,045 |
| Humane Society of Scott County | $5,000 |
| Buffalo Food Pantry | $4,000 |
| Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | $3,000 |
| Pull For You Promotion | $3,000 |
| Iowa State Uni Extension | $2,000 |
| Friends of Off Road Cycling | $2,000 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters | $1,000 |
| Metal 4 Valor | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FUFAIR UNDERWRITERS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $41k · revenue +60%
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF SCOTT COUNTY4× · 2021–2024 · $30k · revenue +83%
- ALAMERICAN LEGION POST 1042× · 2021–2022 · $17k · revenue +89% · 53% of their budget
Funded once
- SSSilver Spurs Saddle Clubone grant, 2020 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $1k
- SCScott County Extension Servicesone grant, 2023 · $1k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To rescue abandoned and displaced cats and dogs, bring them back to health, provide all medical and prepare them for their new home
Animal rescue organization dedicated to finding homes for animals at the animal shelter. we also provde vet care foster homes, and assistance with homing for special needs animals.
Colorado Kitty Coalition's (CKC) current purpose/mission is to rescue, rehabilitate, and re-home cats in need. Through a network of dedicated foster homes, we provide them with love, safety and a chance for a loving home. We commit to…
we rescue last chance shelter dogs that are scheduled to be euthanized
To support the Douglas County K-9 Units efforts by raising funds to purchase dogs, equipment and supplies, care for retired K-9 officers, and to inspire a movement to educate the public on the human value of these heroic animals.
Kool Kats main purpose is to rescue unwanted felines from the area shelters and find them permanent homes. We also have handouts to educate the public on spaying and neutering their pets...cats and dogs alike!! We found homes for over 600…
The kershaw county humane society is dedicated to providing food, housing and medical care to all lost or homeless animals. our goal is to reunite pets with their owners and to address the root causes of animal abuse and overpopulation…
to assist veterans in obtaining service animals
Reduce the homeless animal population in the Greater KC area by subsidizing spay/neuter surgery for pet owners who cannot afford the cost.
Operation Johnson Kitty (OJK) traps, neuters, and returns feral, stray, & community cats. When we have available fosters & space, and sponsors for medical care, we foster and adopt out friendly, socialized cats.
We rescue orphaned and abandoned neonatal kittens.
Our mission is to resuce dogs and cats from the street. to spay or neuter, innoculate and care for them until homes are found. in addition, the second part of our mission is to educate the public ont he importance of spaying and neutering…
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FAIR UNDERWRITERS INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SCOTT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGION POST 104 ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds QUAD CITIES BICYCLE CLUB ↗
- Who funds ORPHAN KITTEN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds K 9 Kindness Rescue Inc ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Coussens Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Coussens Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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