· Public charity
Cowles Memorial 486004AC8
Provides direct and permanent support to the named beneficiaries
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k2 grants · $349k
- $250k+1 grant · $814k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRINITY UNIVERSITY | $814,168 |
| ST MARY'S HALL | $232,620 |
| TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $116,310 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
3 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.
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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cowles Memorial 486004AC8 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cowles Memorial 486004AC8. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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