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Randolph L Cowen and Phyllis Green Foundation at a glance

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Randolph L Cowen and Phyllis Green Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$1.7MHealth$407kFood & Nutrition$125kHuman Services$60kInternational$45kPublic Safety & Disaster$40kHousing & Shelter$35kArts & Culture$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Michigan State University$1,000,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%Michigan State University: $1.0M → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 19 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
7

Total granted

$1.4M
$150k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+29%

Still filing today

79%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
HealthInternationalFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +13%
  • RH
    ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +40%
  • WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • WC
    World Central Kitchen
    one grant, 2022 · $60k
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    one grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue 0%
  • EB
    Edna B Cole Tr FBO St. Judes Children Hospital
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
3
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
4
Rainforest Alliance Holding Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

Environment
5
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
6
Wildaid Inc

Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.

Animals
7
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
8
City Harvest Inc

To end hunger in communities throughout new york city. (see schedule o)to end hunger in communities throughout new york city. we do this through food rescue and distribution, education, and other practical, innovative solutions.

Food & Nutrition
9
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
10
West Side Center for Community Life

To pursue anti-hunger initiatives through the west side campaign against hunger (wscah) program whose mission is to alleviate hunger by ensuring that all new yorkers have access with dignity to a choice of healthy food and supportive…

Youth Development
11
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
12
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is God's Love We Deliver Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
11/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $1,000,000 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYMichigan State University: $717,397 · OtherMichigan State University+13 more: $235,000 · Other+13 moreCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $317,080 · HealthCHILD MIND INSTIT…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $30,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEA…PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $30,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOO…+2 more: $20,000 · HealthMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $45,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $40,000 · InternationalCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $20,000 · Food & NutritionGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $15,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $30,000 · Community ImprovementROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $30,000 · PhilanthropyWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $20,000 · Human Services
Other$1,952,397Health$397,080International$85,000Food & Nutrition$35,000Community Improvement$30,000Philanthropy$30,000Human Services$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $317,080 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWNET: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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How do I get to Randolph L Cowen and Phyllis Green Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Randolph L Cowen and Phyllis Green Foundation 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.

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 27 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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