· Private foundation
Cowley Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY | $6,000 |
| NKURINGO EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY SU | $3,000 |
| CHURCH WORLD SERVICE | $2,557 |
| ESCALERA FOUNDATION | $350 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $350 |
| SALT LAKE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $350 |
| MERCY CHEFS | $350 |
| AMERICA FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREV | $350 |
| SUSAN G KOMEN FOR THE CURE | $350 |
| CAMBODIA JOB FOUNDATION | $350 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $350 |
| DAYS FOR GIRLS | $350 |
| UTAH FOOD BANK | $350 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $350 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $350 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your US giving — 88% of grant dollars ($109k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 12% that went abroad ($15k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $750) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Beyond the US — 12% of all-years giving ($15k)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 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
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CWCHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $3k · revenue +28%
- CNCOMMUNITY NURSING SERVICE2× · 2018–2024 · $3k · revenue +34%
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF UTAH INC5× · 2017–2024 · $2k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $6k
- LCLDS CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Preserve the integrity of competition, inspire true sport, protect the rights of u.s. athletes
Champion humanitarian & patient-centered roles for pathologists. connect those in need to the specialized, life savings skills of pathologists. confer training & awards to residents.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
As a leading charitable foundation and healthcare advocacy organization, the pan foundation is dedicated to accelerating access to treatment for those who need it most and empowering patients on their healthcare journeys. we provide…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.
The organization promotes professional excellence among its membership, and provides accredited continuing medical (cme) dental (cde) nursing (cne), community health education (ches) and social work (ce-sw) educationalactivities, both in…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Utah Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cambodia Job Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 48 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY NURSING SERVICE ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF UTAH INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds ESPECIALLY FOR ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH ↗
- Who funds SHELTER THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Salt Lake Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WATERAID AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBODIA JOB FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Cowley Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.