California · Private foundation
S H Cowell Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $5.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 71
- Grants FY2024
- 66
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $55,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $225,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 54 to 66
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $120M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 21% of the organizations S H Cowell Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $763k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 59 | $5.0M | 8% |
| FY2023 | 66 | $5.0M | 21% |
| FY2022 | 66 | $5.5M | 21% |
| FY2021 | 65 | $4.9M | 35% |
| FY2020 | 54 | $4.8M | 26% |
| FY2019 | 57 | $4.9M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
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, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| On the Move | $2,305,000 | 6 | 7% |
| Vintage High School | $1,380,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Butte County Office of Education | $1,065,000 | 6 | 37% |
| McKinleyville Community Collaborative | $1,047,000 | 6 | 39% |
| Somos Mayfair Inc | $1,020,000 | 6 | 6% |
| Northern Humboldt Union High School District | $865,000 | 6 | n/a |
| East Bay Center for the Performing Arts | $832,000 | 6 | 4% |
| West Contra Costa Unified School District | $772,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Ryse Inc | $716,000 | 6 | 2% |
| School of Arts and Culture at Mhp | $653,500 | 6 | 4% |
Show all 98 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
S H Cowell Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 83 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: The California Endowment · The San Francisco Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Marin Community Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tipping Point Community · Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management · The Sobrato Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About S H Cowell Foundation
- How much does S H Cowell Foundation give?
- S H Cowell Foundation reported 71 grants totaling $5,172,714 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 54 and 66 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does S H Cowell Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (32%), Human Services (19%), Youth Development (11%).
- Who are S H Cowell Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: On the Move ($2.3M), Vintage High School ($1.4M), Butte County Office of Education ($1.1M).
- Does S H Cowell Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does S H Cowell Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as S H Cowell Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The California Endowment, The San Francisco Foundation, The California Wellness Foundation.
- Where is S H Cowell Foundation based?
- S H Cowell Foundation is based in CA.
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