Alabama · Private foundation
Cowin Special Account
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $66k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 14
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations Cowin Special Account funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $66k | 36% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $80k | 36% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $59k | 57% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $53k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $43k | 69% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $67k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mitchell's Place Inc | $200,000 | 6 | 1% |
| University of the South | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Tum Tum Tree Foundation | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Studio by the Tracks Inc | $6,500 | 2 | 1% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| First Light Inc | $4,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Preschool Partners | $4,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Unless U Inc | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mitchell's Place Inc | $200,000 | 6 | 1% |
| University of the South | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Tum Tum Tree Foundation | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Studio by the Tracks Inc | $6,500 | 2 | 1% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| First Light Inc | $4,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Preschool Partners | $4,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Unless U Inc | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Red Barn | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Reed Foundation for Autism Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Magic Moments | $1,300 | 2 | 0% |
| The Bell Center for Early Intervention Programs | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Smile-A-Mile | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Parkinson Association of Alabama Inc | $750 | 2 | 0% |
| Birmingham Children's Theatre Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Space One Eleven Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| The Greater Birmingham Humane Society Inc | $200 | 1 | 0% |
| Feeding America | $200 | 1 | 0% |
| Bridgeways Inc | $150 | 1 | 0% |
| Kings Home Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($66k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cowin Special Account 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 Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Protective Life Foundation · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation · Robert R Meyer Foundation · The Hackney Foundation · Debardeleben Foundation Inc · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Junior League of Birmingham Inc
How this is measured
About Cowin Special Account
- How much does Cowin Special Account give?
- Cowin Special Account reported 14 grants totaling $66,450 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 14 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Cowin Special Account fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (66%), Education (15%), Civil Rights (7%).
- Who are Cowin Special Account's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Mitchell's Place Inc ($200k), University of the South ($30k), The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund ($20k).
- Does Cowin Special Account fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cowin Special Account accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Cowin Special Account?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, Alabama Power Foundation Inc.
- Where is Cowin Special Account based?
- Cowin Special Account is based in AL.
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