Texas · Private foundation
Louetta M Cowden Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $647k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $55,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Louetta M Cowden Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k 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 | 21 | $647k | 24% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $600k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $615k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $644k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $705k | 31% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $553k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $550k | 27% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $531k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Wwi Museum and Memorial | $650,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Charlotte Street Foundation | $610,000 | 9 | 8% |
| Heartland Foundation | $450,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Kansas City Community Gardens Inc | $230,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Alphapointe | $225,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Bridging the Gap Inc | $215,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Powell Gardens Inc | $210,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Boys Club of Greater Kansas City | $200,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Kansas City | $185,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Kansas City Repertory Theatre Inc | $140,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 44 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Louetta M Cowden 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: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · Menorah Heritage Foundation · Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation · Hallmark Corporate Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Health Forward Foundation
How this is measured
About Louetta M Cowden Foundation
- How much does Louetta M Cowden Foundation give?
- Louetta M Cowden Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $647,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Louetta M Cowden Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (34%), Health (20%), Youth Development (15%).
- Who are Louetta M Cowden Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: National Wwi Museum and Memorial ($650k), Charlotte Street Foundation ($610k), Heartland Foundation ($450k).
- Does Louetta M Cowden Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Louetta M Cowden Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Louetta M Cowden Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, The Sunderland Foundation, The H & R Block Foundation.
- Where is Louetta M Cowden Foundation based?
- Louetta M Cowden Foundation is based in TX.
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