North Carolina · 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.
- $167k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Cowan Slavin Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 11 | $167k | 45% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $38k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $38k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $84k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $33k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $91k | 64% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $53k | 57% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $88k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waterside Workshops | $95,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Ny Writers Coalition Inc | $42,500 | 5 | 3% |
| Life Connections of the Carolinas Inc | $32,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Extreme Kids and Crew Inc | $30,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Undiscovered Works Inc | $29,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Cumbe Center for African and Diaspora Dance Inc | $27,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Catrock Ventures Inc | $26,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Shades of Pink Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Root & Rebound | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Soaring Unlimited Dba Centre de Sante Soaring Pister | $22,500 | 2 | 4% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waterside Workshops | $95,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Ny Writers Coalition Inc | $42,500 | 5 | 3% |
| Life Connections of the Carolinas Inc | $32,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Extreme Kids and Crew Inc | $30,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Undiscovered Works Inc | $29,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Cumbe Center for African and Diaspora Dance Inc | $27,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Catrock Ventures Inc | $26,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Shades of Pink Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Root & Rebound | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Soaring Unlimited Dba Centre de Sante Soaring Pister | $22,500 | 2 | 4% |
| Zabs Place | $22,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Girls Write Now Inc | $16,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Feeding Charlotte Inc | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Womens Cancer Resource Center | $15,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Carolina Breast Friends Inc | $12,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Communities for Healing & Justice | $10,000 | 1 | 18% |
| Foundation for African Medicine and Educ | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Saline Area Social Service Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Synod Community Services | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Charlotte Ballet | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($116k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cowan Slavin Foundation Inc 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: 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
How this is measured
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About Cowan Slavin Foundation Inc
- How much does Cowan Slavin Foundation Inc give?
- Cowan Slavin Foundation Inc reported 11 grants totaling $166,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Cowan Slavin Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (35%), Arts & Culture (22%), International (9%).
- Who are Cowan Slavin Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Waterside Workshops ($95k), Ny Writers Coalition Inc ($43k), Life Connections of the Carolinas Inc ($33k).
- Does Cowan Slavin Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cowan Slavin Foundation Inc 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 Slavin Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Hyde and Watson Foundation, Foundation for the Carolinas, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is Cowan Slavin Foundation Inc based?
- Cowan Slavin Foundation Inc is based in NC.
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