· Private foundation
Gerry and Bill Cowlin Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 24 grants below total $342,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,550,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,208,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $282k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAMILY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP CLINIC | $40,000 |
| GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA, INC. | $35,000 |
| GREATER FAMILY HEALTH | $35,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF EASTERN MICHIGAN | $30,000 |
| MCHENRY COUNTY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| COALITION ON TEMPORARY SHELTER | $25,000 |
| MCHENRY COUNTY ADULT PROGRAM | $20,000 |
| KINLEY CHARITY CARE FUND | $20,000 |
| BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $17,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENDERS OF MCHENRY COUNTY | $15,000 |
| FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE (FARA) | $15,000 |
| HOME OF THE SPARROW | $8,000 |
| GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $7,000 |
| LITTLE RED DOOR CANCER AGENCY | $5,000 |
| LINK UNLIMITED | $5,000 |
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.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $323k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- FOFISH OF MCHENRY FOOD PANTRY2× · 2023–2024 · $35k
- NINORTHERN ILLINOIS HELPING HANDS FOOD PANTRY2× · 2023–2024 · $15k
- CCCRC COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER2× · 2023–2024 · $11k
Funded once
- TATSC ALLIANCEone grant, 2023 · $350k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $333k
- PCPIONEER CENTER FOR HUMAN SERVICESone grant, 2023 · $70k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…
Endeavor Health Clinical Operations follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."
With the support of our community, we provide over 90 million meals annually through our network of over 900 member food pantries and programs across thirteen counties, currently reaching over a half million individuals each month with…
The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.
Provide quality, accessible, and valuable health care services via a hospital, home health agency, and clinic to the surrounding rural community.
Feeding illinois is a coalition of eight feeding america food banks that provide food to over 2,400 food pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters that feed nearly 1.4 million residents across the entire state of illinois.
To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
Green Chicago Restaurant Coalition's Guaranteed Green Sustainability Education Program educates foodservice operators about assessing the present state of their operation's environmental sustainability and helps them to develop a plan to…
Our mission is to advance change in America by ensuring equitable access to nutritious food for all in partnership with partner food banks, policymakers, supporters, and the communities we serve.
Food Works is a non-profit organization dedicated to creating a sustainable food economy in Southern Illinois. Through farmer training and consumer education, Food Works promotes long-term farming networks that create healthy soils,…
Green city market is securing the future of food by deepening support for sustainable farmers, educating our community, and expanding access to locally-grown food.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friedreich's Ataxia Research Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 55 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Family Health Partnership Clinic ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER FAMILY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds McHenry County Conservation Foundation ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of Eastern Michigan ↗
- Who funds COTS ↗
- Who funds MCHENRY COUNTY ADULT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENDERS OF McHENRY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Home of the Sparrow Inc ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds LINK Unlimited Scholars ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for McHenry County · Foglia Family Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.