· Private foundation
Cowan Slavin Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $159k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHADES OF PINK FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| WATERSIDE WORKSHOP | $25,000 |
| CUMBE CENTER FOR AFRICAN AND DIASPORA DANCE | $20,000 |
| SOARING UNLIMITED | $15,000 |
| LIFE CONNECTIONS OF THE CAROLINAS | $15,000 |
| FEEDING CHARLOTTE | $15,000 |
| UNDISCOVERED WORKS | $12,000 |
| CAROLINA BREAST FRIENDS | $12,000 |
| COMMUNITIES FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE | $10,000 |
| CHARLOTTE CENTER FOR THE LITERARY ARTS | $10,000 |
| WOMENS CANCER RESOURCE CENTER | $7,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
14 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- WWWATERSIDE WORKSHOPS8× · 2018–2025 · $95k · revenue +70%
- NWNY WRITERS COALITION INC5× · 2018–2024 · $43k · revenue +15%
- LCLife Connections of the Carolinas Inc3× · 2018–2025 · $33k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- CCCUMBE CENTERone grant, 2022 · $10k
- EKExtreme Kids and Crew Brooklynone grant, 2020 · $10k
- LCLIFE CONNECTIONS INCone grant, 2022 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Resonance Center for Women, Inc. promotes and supports the well-being and self-sufficiency of women and their families involved with the criminal justice system.
To promote the self-reliance of women by assessing needs, providing services, and acting as a gateway to community resources; to seek solutions for unmet needs by providing strategic leadership through collaboration and partnerships within…
Re-entry Program in Durham NC
Grace Collective is a nonprofit that offers hope and opportunity for lasting change to women survivors of poverty and exploitation. We do this by fostering a community of grace and holistic care where women learn job and life skills that…
Through the wisdom of lived recovery experience, we ignite social change, inspire hope and serve as a catalyst for personal greatness.
A womens advancement center, the mission of Dress for Success is to empower women to achieve economic independence by providing a network of support, professional attire and development tools to thrive in work and in life. Programs and…
CCT strengthens our community by helping people with criminal records find a healthier and more productive way of living. Our work provides employment and transition services: supports alternatives to incarceration: and restores and…
The mission of Casting for Recovery (CfR) is to empower women in treatment or recovery from breast cancer, through oncology-informed retreats that connect women to each other and nature using the therapeutic sport of fly fishing - all at…
The WorkWell Partnership operates a four-week job training program consisting of training and counseling, with qualified trainers, mentors, and advocates helping to prepare formerly incarcerated citizens for employment that can be…
Recovery Career Services exists to support individuals in recovery from substance use and those impacted by the criminal justice system in obtaining and maintaining employment. The organization provides career coaching, job readiness…
Encourage cancer survivors to seek the support and camaraderie of other cancer survivors, so that they can find their strength, purpose and passion through our empowering, life-skill building activities.
To provide San Francisco Bay Area low-income women with cancer the opportunity for improved health outcomes and quality of life by providing free access to compassionate, integrative care and wrap-around support.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Write Now Inc and the most unlike its peers is Feeding Charlotte Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 32 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds WATERSIDE WORKSHOPS ↗
- Who funds NY WRITERS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds Life Connections of the Carolinas Inc ↗
- Who funds Extreme Kids and Crew Inc ↗
- Who funds CUMBE CENTER FOR AFRICAN AND DIASPORA DANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CATROCK VENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds SHADES OF PINK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROOT & REBOUND ↗
- Who funds SOARING UNLIMITED DBA CENTRE DE SANTE SOARING PISTER ↗
- Who funds Zabs Place ↗
- Who funds GIRLS WRITE NOW INC ↗
- Who funds Womens Cancer Resource Center ↗
- Who funds Feeding Charlotte Inc ↗
- Who funds Carolina Breast Friends Inc ↗
- Who funds Communities for Healing & Justice ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR AFRICAN MEDICINE AND EDUC ↗
- Who funds SYNOD COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SALINE AREA SOCIAL SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE BALLET ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Cowan Slavin Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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