New York · Private foundation
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.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 43
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $56,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $744,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 47
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.2M
- 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 Daniel Cowles Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k 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 | 15 | $1.6M | 20% |
| FY2024 | 43 | $2.2M | 16% |
| FY2023 | 36 | $2.0M | 8% |
| FY2022 | 47 | $2.2M | 68% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $824k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance | $2,726,000 | 5 | 72% |
| Christian Herald Association Inc | $915,000 | 5 | 1% |
| World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals | $670,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Neighborhood Church | $651,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc | $332,000 | 5 | n/a |
| World Hope International Inc | $243,500 | 4 | 1% |
| MAP International Inc | $204,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $180,000 | 4 | 0% |
| ECHO Inc | $174,000 | 4 | 1% |
| InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA | $156,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Daniel Cowles Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 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.
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How this is measured
Compare Daniel Cowles Charitable Foundation with peer funders
About Daniel Cowles Charitable Foundation
- How much does Daniel Cowles Charitable Foundation give?
- Daniel Cowles Charitable Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $1,629,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 47 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Daniel Cowles Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (36%), Health (32%), International (21%).
- Who are Daniel Cowles Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Alliance ($2.7M), Christian Herald Association Inc ($915k), World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals ($670k).
- Does Daniel Cowles Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Daniel Cowles Charitable 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 Daniel Cowles Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Texas Instruments Foundation, Christian Community Foundation Inc, Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing.
- Where is Daniel Cowles Charitable Foundation based?
- Daniel Cowles Charitable Foundation is based in NY.
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