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The Christine Cochrane Family 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.

$111k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2025
13
Organizations funded FY2024
23%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$35,000
Organizations funded a year
13 to 33
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$482k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 23% of the organizations The Christine Cochrane Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther
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
FY2025still arriving16$111k38%
FY202413$112k23%
FY202315$125k0%
FY202231$106k10%
FY202126$92k19%
FY202030$92k3%
FY201931$81k3%
FY201833$59k24%
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$136kInternational$121kAnimals$110kReligion$86kFood & Nutrition$55kHousing & Shelter$50kPublic Safety & Disaster$45kYouth Development$35kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
NY
IA
PA
CO
VA
MD
DC
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 34 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($330k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Christine Cochrane Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $48,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the World Food Program Inc: $41,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAgros International: $40,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetThe Challenge Program Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $33,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLight of Life Ministries Inc: $31,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFarm Sanctuary Inc: $22,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $22,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCrisis Center North Inc: $21,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetHumane Animal Rescue: $18,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Lighthouse Foundation: $15,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetHope Haven Farm Sanctuary: $11,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetAspinwall Meals on Wheels Inc: $11,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetLittle Sisters of the Poor: $10,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetOrlando Union Rescue Mission Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPeople for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHeal Animal Rescue: $10,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetJubilee Association Inc: $9,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetEast End Cooperative Ministry: $8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEnopion Theatre Company: $6,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetThe Wild Animal Sanctuary: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRebuilding Together Pittsburgh: $4,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Hills Community Outreach Inc: $4,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDollar Energy Fund Inc: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWatchful Shepherd USA: $4,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetProject Meow: $3,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHappy Jack Cats Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSams Hope: $2,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAnimal Friends Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPaw Warriors Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCoalition for Christian Outreach: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 31.

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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.

The Pittsburgh FoundationPA23.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Eqt Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Edward B Dunlap Jr Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Margaret Raphael Foundation · Peter C Dozzi Family Foundation Aka Eugene Dozzi Charitable Foundation · Centimark Foundation · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · The Jack Buncher Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Christine Cochrane Family Foundation

How much does The Christine Cochrane Family Foundation give?
The Christine Cochrane Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $111,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Christine Cochrane Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (17%), International (15%), Animals (13%).
Who are The Christine Cochrane Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($48k), Fox Chapel Presbyterian Church ($46k), Friends of the World Food Program Inc ($41k).
Does The Christine Cochrane Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Christine Cochrane Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Christine Cochrane Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Eqt Foundation.
Where is The Christine Cochrane Family Foundation based?
The Christine Cochrane Family Foundation is based in PA.

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 56 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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