How much did FAYE L & WILLIAM L COWDEN CHARITABLE grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of FAYE L & WILLIAM L COWDEN CHARITABLE’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

rescuemaximumalamotheatreart

2020

bankmaximumdogsshelterhumaneart

2021

conservancymaximumanimalbexararthumaneleague

2022

educationalamohill countrydaily breadartsouthgirls san

2023

childrensconservancynatureanimalhill countrysouthart

2024

hill countryanimalsouthleague

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 70 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k27 grants · $154k
$10k–50k43 grants · $468k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$15M

Total assets

Largest grants

HILL COUNTRY YOUTH RANCH$15,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN ANTONIO$15,000
Nature Conservancy$15,000
CHILD ADVOCATES OF SA$15,000
Morgans inclusion initiative$15,000
Communities in School of South Central Texas$15,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS$15,000
FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SERVICES$12,500
hill country daily bread$10,000
teamability$10,000
ANY BABY CAN OF SAN ANTONIO$10,000
SOCIAL AND HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER$10,000
Teach for America$10,000
HEALY-MURPHY CENTER INC$10,000
GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER$10,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $684k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 12%. 96% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.5M · 116 repeat orgs$657k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

116 repeat relationships — 53 still active in FY2024, 63 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

116

Total granted

$3.5M

$506k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%

+20%

Still filing today

69%

51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $151k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

GS
GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS
7× · 2018–2024 · $95k · revenue +44%
FV
FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SERVICES
7× · 2018–2024 · $80k · revenue +31%
CC
CLARITY CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER
6× · 2018–2023 · $70k · revenue +9%

Funded once

SO
SPORTS OUTDOOR AND RECREATION PARK
one grant, 2020 · $15k
CF
CENTER FOR HEALTH CARE SERVICES
one grant, 2022 · $15k
HC
HILL COUNTRY CHRISTIAN COUSELING CENTER
one grant, 2022 · $12k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Connectability

ConnectAbility's mission is to empower those with life altering disabilities and their caregivers to reach their fullest potential.

Human Services

San Antonio Foster Care and Adoption and Services

San antonio foster care and adoption services inc. is a licensed child placement agency in the state of texas. the organization cares for children placed in foster care by the state of texas.

Human Services

Casa of South Texas Inc

Child Advocacy

Human Services

San Antonio Regional Hospital

Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of the people we serve.

Health

San Antonio Report

Publishing a local online news source. We believe a well informed and connected community is essential to making San Antonio a better place to live, work and play.

Arts & Culture

Discovery School of San Antonio

At Discovery School, our mission is to inspire and nurture the love of learning in young children and their families. The School offers an enhanced early childhood education for children 2 through 7 years, to provide them with the skills…

Education

San Antonio Lifetime Recovery Inc Dba

Changing lives through comprehensive treatment of substance abuse disorder in san antonio, tx and south texas.

Health

Special Reach Inc

To provide dynamic enrichment programs for children with special needs and respite for their families.

Human Services

Child Advocates San Antonio

Court appointed volunteers serve as advocates for children in state protective custody.

Civil Rights

Texans Care for Children Inc

Texas Care for Children shapes public policies and brings Texans together to make children a statewide priority. We work so kids can have what they need to be healthy, secure, and thriving and so every Texan can have the best start to life.

Crime & Legal

Sa Talent Inc

The mission of sa talent, inc. is to educate and develop youth and adults into the talent needs of san antonio's current and future employers and provide services for the regional employers for the retention and growth of their local…

Education

Tennis Officials of San Antonio Association

Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Texas and the most unlike its peers is Gencure. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/138

the rest of the field

13%

940/7,060

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.

05the grantee network

137 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

134/137

Grantees still filing

106/137

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,172,842Human Services$683,500Health$350,500Animals$305,623Arts & Culture$292,500Education$268,100Youth Development$117,500

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.

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.

San Antonio Area FoundationTX186.1× affinity107 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · Harvey E Najim Charitable · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · The Texas Cavaliers Charitable · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Marcia & Otto Koehler Foundation · The Charity Ball Association Of · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable · United Way of San Antonio and Bexar · St Luke's Lutheran Health · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · Betty Stieren Kelso 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 organisation FAYE L & WILLIAM L COWDEN CHARITABLE 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: the daisy fund.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~15 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +77% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 352372827 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on the daisy fund, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 15 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 7% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable?

Find your warmest path to Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

FAYE L & WILLIAM L COWDEN CHARITABLE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

137 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable?

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FAYE L & WILLIAM L COWDEN CHARITABLE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

137 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable?

More from the funding graph