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Once a Cowboy Always a Cowboy

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$35k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2023
86%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$6,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 7
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$13k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 86% of the organizations Once a Cowboy Always a Cowboy funded were first-time grantees, receiving 86% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving10$35k100%
FY20237$30k86%
FY20224$28k100%
FY20215$21k100%
FY20204$9k100%
FY20195$15k100%
FY20185$16k100%
FY20171$7kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$136kHuman Services$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$7kEducation$4kEmployment$2k

Top grantees

Largest grants in FY2024.

Individual grant recipient$6,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
Tessa Stachowiak for son S Brown$4,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
Ron Anderson via Right Hand Movers$700

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How do I get to Once a Cowboy Always a Cowboy?

Find your warmest path to Once a Cowboy Always a Cowboy through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Once a Cowboy Always a Cowboy

How much does Once a Cowboy Always a Cowboy give?
Once a Cowboy Always a Cowboy reported 10 grants totaling $34,700 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Once a Cowboy Always a Cowboy fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (86%), Human Services (6%), Public Safety & Disaster (4%).
Does Once a Cowboy Always a Cowboy fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 86% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Once a Cowboy Always a Cowboy accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Once a Cowboy Always a Cowboy based?
Once a Cowboy Always a Cowboy is based in OH.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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