New Mexico · Private foundation
Cowles Family Foundation
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.
- $750k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $120,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 17
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $784k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Cowles Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k 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 | 22 | $750k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $360k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $300k | 44% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $313k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 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, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $288,000 | 4 | 0% |
| National Network of Abortion Funds Inc | $176,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Tewa Women United | $150,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Conservation Law Foundation Inc | $115,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Safe House Education Fund | $105,000 | 2 | 27% |
| First Nations Development Institute | $67,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Farmington Land Trust | $63,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Hill-Stead Museum | $62,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Dreaming Out Loud Inc | $47,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Soul Fire Farm Institute Inc | $47,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $288,000 | 4 | 0% |
| National Network of Abortion Funds Inc | $176,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Tewa Women United | $150,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Conservation Law Foundation Inc | $115,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Safe House Education Fund | $105,000 | 2 | 27% |
| First Nations Development Institute | $67,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Farmington Land Trust | $63,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Hill-Stead Museum | $62,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Dreaming Out Loud Inc | $47,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Soul Fire Farm Institute Inc | $47,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Community Health Services of Addison Cty Inc | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lake Champlain Committee Inc | $38,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Black Farmer Fund Inc | $34,500 | 3 | 0% |
| 350org | $33,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Feeding America | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Food 4 Farmers Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Connecticut River Watershed Council Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Farmington River Watershed Association Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Keney Park Sustainability Project | $5,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Save Rural Loudoun | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($391k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Cowles Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · The Vermont Community Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Cowles Family Foundation
- How much does Cowles Family Foundation give?
- Cowles Family Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $750,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 17 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Cowles Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (30%), Health (21%), International (16%).
- Who are Cowles Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc ($288k), National Network of Abortion Funds Inc ($176k), Tewa Women United ($150k).
- Does Cowles Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cowles Family Foundation 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 Cowles Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, The Vermont Community Foundation, Network for Good.
- Where is Cowles Family Foundation based?
- Cowles Family Foundation is based in NM.
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