· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 91% of Daniel Cowles Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 17% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 3%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +34% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
34 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. 34 of the 60 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
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.
- 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 Do For One NYC ↗
- Who funds THE FATHER'S HEART MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Pioneer Bible Translators ↗
- Who funds Ancla de Esperanza Anchor of Hope Bolivia ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Daniel Cowles Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Daniel Cowles Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
How this is measured
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