Illinois · Private foundation
Cowie Family Charitable Trust
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.
- $30k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $300
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 42
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $472k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Cowie Family Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 | 30 | $30k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $30k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $31k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 42 | $46k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $20k | 16% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $27k | 32% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $29k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Contemporary Theater Company | $20,750 | 4 | 2% |
| The Trustees of the Smith College | $16,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Camba Inc | $8,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Ali Forney Center Inc | $6,500 | 7 | 0% |
| International Arts Relations Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Animal Rescue League of Boston | $5,500 | 7 | 0% |
| American Museum of Natural History | $4,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services | $3,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Conservation Law Foundation Inc | $3,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Unitarian Universalist Meeting House | $3,000 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 42 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($98k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cowie Family Charitable Trust 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 Rhode Island Community Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The H Winfield and Phyllis Tucker Family Foundation Inc · Treved Foundation Inc · Tern Foundation · Seamens Long Point Charitable Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Cowie Family Charitable Trust
- How much does Cowie Family Charitable Trust give?
- Cowie Family Charitable Trust reported 30 grants totaling $30,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 42 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Cowie Family Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (36%), Religion (20%), Education (12%).
- Who are Cowie Family Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: The Contemporary Theater Company ($21k), The Trustees of the Smith College ($16k), Camba Inc ($9k).
- Does Cowie Family Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cowie Family Charitable Trust 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 Cowie Family Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Rhode Island Community Foundation, The Champlin Foundation, United Way of Rhode Island Inc.
- Where is Cowie Family Charitable Trust based?
- Cowie Family Charitable Trust is based in IL.
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