New York · Private foundation
Cowan Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $105k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2024
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $6,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $12,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 28
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 32% of the organizations Cowan Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 15 | $105k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $56k | 32% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $33k | 46% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $73k | 60% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $76k | 54% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $37k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $45k | 62% |
| FY2017 | 18 | $50k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The American College | $62,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Central Synagogue | $51,200 | 5 | n/a |
| Ali Forney Center Inc | $12,000 | 1 | 0% |
| City Harvest Inc | $12,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation | $12,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Spring Street Climate Fund Inc | $12,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Pink Aid Inc | $12,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Chai Lifeline Inc | $11,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc | $10,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Breakthrough New York Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 55 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($183k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cowan Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Select Equity Group Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Cowan Family Foundation
- How much does Cowan Family Foundation give?
- Cowan Family Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $105,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 28 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Cowan Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (23%), Health (16%), Religion (12%).
- Who are Cowan Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The American College ($62k), Central Synagogue ($51k), Ali Forney Center Inc ($12k).
- Does Cowan Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cowan Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Cowan Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, Jewish Communal Fund, The Hyde and Watson Foundation.
- Where is Cowan Family Foundation based?
- Cowan Family Foundation is based in NY.
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