Texas · Private foundation
Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $523k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 59
- Grants FY2025
- 70
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 67 to 83
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $141k 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 | 59 | $523k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 70 | $621k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 83 | $677k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 70 | $600k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 82 | $538k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 73 | $602k | 27% |
| FY2019 | 67 | $585k | 27% |
| FY2018 | 72 | $553k | 35% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas Inc | $120,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Humane Society of San Antonio (Audit) | $104,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Family Violence Prevention Services Inc | $95,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Children's Shelter | $85,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Greater San Antonio | $85,000 | 8 | 0% |
| San Antonio Metropolitan Ministries Inc | $85,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Boy Scouts of America Alamo Area Council | $80,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Brighton Center | $78,000 | 9 | 0% |
| San Antonio Children's Museum | $75,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Clarity Child Guidance Center | $75,000 | 7 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 52 recipients with no EIN on record ($777k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable 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: San Antonio Area Foundation · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation · Marcia & Otto Koehler Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · The Charity Ball Association of San Antonio Inc · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · St Luke's Lutheran Health Ministries Inc · John R & Greli N Less Charitable Trust #FE324
How this is measured
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About Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation
- How much does Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation give?
- Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation reported 59 grants totaling $522,996 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 67 and 83 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (25%), Health (18%), Youth Development (11%).
- Who are Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas Inc ($120k), Humane Society of San Antonio (Audit) ($105k), Family Violence Prevention Services Inc ($95k).
- Does Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include San Antonio Area Foundation, Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation, Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation.
- Where is Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation based?
- Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation is based in TX.
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