Utah · Private foundation
Cowley 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.
- $16k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $246k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations Cowley Family Foundation 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; $711 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 | 18 | $16k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $16k | 16% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $10k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $14k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $5k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $10k | 71% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $29k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $31k | 100% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah State University | $33,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Church World Service Inc | $5,404 | 3 | 0% |
| Community Nursing Service | $2,576 | 3 | 0% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Utah Inc | $2,375 | 6 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $2,125 | 6 | 0% |
| Especially for Athletes Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Utah Food Bank | $1,675 | 5 | 0% |
| The Children's Center Utah | $1,450 | 4 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $1,225 | 4 | 0% |
| National Pediatric Cancer Foundation Inc | $1,200 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah State University | $33,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Church World Service Inc | $5,404 | 3 | 0% |
| Community Nursing Service | $2,576 | 3 | 0% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Utah Inc | $2,375 | 6 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $2,125 | 6 | 0% |
| Especially for Athletes Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Utah Food Bank | $1,675 | 5 | 0% |
| The Children's Center Utah | $1,450 | 4 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $1,225 | 4 | 0% |
| National Pediatric Cancer Foundation Inc | $1,200 | 3 | 0% |
| Shelter the Homeless Inc | $1,200 | 2 | 0% |
| Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | $1,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Salt Lake Education Foundation | $925 | 3 | 0% |
| American Foundation Inc | $450 | 1 | n/a |
| Cambodia Job Foundation | $400 | 2 | 1% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $400 | 1 | 0% |
| Wateraid America Inc | $366 | 1 | 0% |
| Our Rescue | $300 | 1 | 0% |
| American Preparatory Education Foundation | $300 | 1 | 0% |
| National Arbor Day Foundation | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Donorschooseorg | $57 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($81k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cowley Family Foundation 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: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Cowley Family Foundation
- How much does Cowley Family Foundation give?
- Cowley Family Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $15,757 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Cowley Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (39%), Health (15%), International (5%).
- Who are Cowley Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Utah State University ($33k), Church World Service Inc ($5k), Community Nursing Service ($3k).
- Does Cowley Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cowley 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 Cowley Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sorenson Legacy Foundation, Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Cowley Family Foundation based?
- Cowley Family Foundation is based in UT.
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