New York · Private foundation
ELSIE P AND LUCIUS B McCOWAN PRIVATE FOUNDATION
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $238k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 87
- Grants FY2025
- 103
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,300
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $26,900
- Organizations funded a year
- 84 to 109
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 18
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations ELSIE P AND LUCIUS B McCOWAN PRIVATE FOUNDATION funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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 | 85 | $238k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 103 | $221k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 109 | $226k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 93 | $189k | 24% |
| FY2021 | 91 | $150k | 23% |
| FY2020 | 84 | $134k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 91 | $125k | 26% |
| FY2018 | 89 | $121k | 37% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Outdoor U Inc | $80,525 | 4 | n/a |
| Just Buffalo Literary Center Inc | $53,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Canisius University | $43,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Heart Love & Soul Inc | $42,081 | 9 | 0% |
| The Children's Hospital of Buffalo Foundation | $41,600 | 8 | 0% |
| Niagara Hospice Inc | $32,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Wings Flights of Hope | $31,963 | 6 | 3% |
| Shakespeare in Delaware Park Inc | $27,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Elma Cemetery Association | $27,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Wilson Community Food Pantry Inc | $24,115 | 9 | n/a |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 119 recipients with no EIN on record ($647k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget ELSIE P AND LUCIUS B McCOWAN PRIVATE 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: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The Baird Foundation · The John R Oishei Foundation · Equitable Foundation Inc · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · The Saperston Family Foundation · Joanne and Frank Collins Charitable Foundation · The Osc Charitable Foundation · East Hill Foundation · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · Tower Family Fund Inc · Cullen Foundation
How this is measured
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About ELSIE P AND LUCIUS B McCOWAN PRIVATE FOUNDATION
- How much does ELSIE P AND LUCIUS B McCOWAN PRIVATE FOUNDATION give?
- ELSIE P AND LUCIUS B McCOWAN PRIVATE FOUNDATION reported 87 grants totaling $238,450 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 84 and 109 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does ELSIE P AND LUCIUS B McCOWAN PRIVATE FOUNDATION fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (15%), Education (14%), Arts & Culture (13%).
- Who are ELSIE P AND LUCIUS B McCOWAN PRIVATE FOUNDATION's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Outdoor U Inc ($81k), Just Buffalo Literary Center Inc ($54k), Canisius University ($43k).
- Does ELSIE P AND LUCIUS B McCOWAN PRIVATE FOUNDATION fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does ELSIE P AND LUCIUS B McCOWAN PRIVATE FOUNDATION accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as ELSIE P AND LUCIUS B McCOWAN PRIVATE FOUNDATION?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, The Baird Foundation, The John R Oishei Foundation.
- Where is ELSIE P AND LUCIUS B McCOWAN PRIVATE FOUNDATION based?
- ELSIE P AND LUCIUS B McCOWAN PRIVATE FOUNDATION is based in NY.
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