· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k29 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST PETERS BY THE SEA EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $10,000 |
| SMITH COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL ARTS RELATIONS | $3,000 |
| CORNELL JAZZ ENSEMBLES ALUMNI | $3,000 |
| CAMBA | $1,500 |
| CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ALI FORNEY CENTER | $1,000 |
| UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST MEETING HOUSE | $1,000 |
| ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| WOMENS REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ASSISTANCE | $500 |
| HELPING OUR WOMEN | $300 |
| CENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES | $300 |
| ACLU | $300 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
44 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
THE CONTEMPORARY THEATER COMPANY4× · 2019–2023 · $21k · revenue +45%- TTTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE7× · 2019–2025 · $16k · revenue +43%
- CICAMBA INC7× · 2019–2025 · $9k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $3k
- KCKINGSTON CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $1k
- BABEACON ACADEMY INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +92%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.
Preserve ri's vision is a future where historic preservation creates positive change, making our diverse cultures, the environment, and the economy better for the people who live, visit and work in rhode island. preserve ri's mission is to…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
Central square theater, the oldest female-led theater organization in greater boston, is an innovator in the non-profit arts field in collaborative leadership. cst engages over 35,000 people annually through live performance, rigorous…
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
How this is measured
39 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. 39 of the 69 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 THE CONTEMPORARY THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CAMBA INC ↗
- Who funds ALI FORNEY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ARTS RELATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds PROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds WELCOME HOUSE OF SOUTH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DEXTER KEEZER COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds HELPING OUR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds The Outer Cape Chorale Inc ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER OF SOUTH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ENV WILDLIFE CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds FINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC ↗
- Who funds TRURO COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ↗
- Who funds PROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM 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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cowie Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cowie Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Inc: 27% of income from government
- Center for Coastal Studies Inc: 26% of income from government
- Helping Our Women Inc: 14% of income from government
- The Nature Connection Inc: 5% of income from government
- The Theater Offensive Inc: 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
- Beacon Academy Inc: 1% of income from government
- Animal Rescue League of Boston: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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