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Daniel Cowles Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $34k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $833k
- $250k+1 grant · $744k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALLIANCE | $744,000 |
| WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS | $200,000 |
| INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP USA | $156,000 |
| PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES | $100,000 |
| WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS | $96,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD CHURCH | $96,000 |
| BOWERY MISSION | $75,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $56,000 |
| MISSION TO THE WORLD | $54,000 |
| FRONTIERS USA | $24,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS INC | $10,000 |
| EMMAUS JOURNEY | $6,000 |
| CHRISTIAN HEALTH SERVICES CORPS | $5,000 |
| CUP OF COLD WATER MINISTRIES | $4,000 |
| ANCLA DE ESPERANZA | $3,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY21–25, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 91% of Daniel Cowles Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 17% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 3% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +30% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $261k 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
- AALLIANCE5× · 2021–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +64% · 72% of their budget
- WRWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS5× · 2021–2025 · $670k · revenue +134%
MAP International Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $204k · revenue +120%
Funded once
- CLCITY LIGHT CHURCH INCone grant, 2022 · $16k
- LOLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2024 · $12k · revenue 0%
- UIURBAN IMPACT OF BLACK ROCK INCORPORATEDgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $12k · revenue +48%
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.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Compelled by a deep passion for justice and mercy, World Renew joins communities around the world to renew hope, reconcile lives, and restore creation with programs focused on disaster response, community health, economic opportunity, food…
i58 Global is a Christian ministry dedicated to recruiting, sending and organizing relief workers to provide aid and share hope to refugees in various European countries.
Redeem's mission is to protect widows and orphans from violent abuse and exploitation.
International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…
World reach is a global, evangelical missions organization serving fields in east africa, central and south america, europe and the u.s. our purpose is to fulfill the the great commission of jesus christ by reaching the world with the…
The organizations exempt purpose is to rescue orphans and widows, feed the poor, build the local church through ministry, crusades and outreaches and to win souls around the world.
A Jesus Mission creates unique opportunities for individuals or teams to serves as Christian missionaires around the world through traditional evangelism, discipleship training, and outreach.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is International Justice Mission and the most unlike its peers is Project Sweet Peas. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
34 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. 34 of the 60 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 ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Christian Herald Association Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS ↗
- Who funds World Hope International Inc ↗
- Who funds MAP International Inc ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds ECHO Inc ↗
- Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
- Who funds MIO Frontiers ↗
- Who funds PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Expect Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds SAT-7 NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds EVANGELISM RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds AVAIL NYC ↗
- Who funds CUP OF COLD WATER MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds EMMAUS JOURNEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FATHER'S HEART MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Do For One NYC ↗
- Who funds Pioneer Bible Translators ↗
- Who funds Ancla de Esperanza Anchor of Hope Bolivia ↗
- Who funds LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
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: Texas Instruments Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Servant Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · Verizon Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
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 Daniel Cowles Charitable 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.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% 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.