· Private foundation
The Cogitare Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k10 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $82k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $19,700 |
| Individual grant recipient | $14,100 |
| SCHOLARSHIP GRANT FOR MWICHE NAMBELA | $14,000 |
| SCHOLARSHIP GRANT FOR MIYANDA MWEETWA | $12,850 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,100 |
| SCHOLARSHIP GRANT FOR NICK CHIYELA MWEENE | $10,617 |
| SCHOLARSHIP GRANT FOR DANIEL SAKALA | $8,400 |
| SCHOLARSHIP GRANT FOR PRINCE KANYIMBO | $6,000 |
| YOUTHS IN BUSINESS | $5,000 |
| SCHOLARSHIP GRANT FOR CHIMUKA CHEEPA | $4,852 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,300 |
| SCHOLARSHIP GRANT FOR STEVEN SAKALA | $4,000 |
| SCHOLARSHIP GRANT FOR MARTIN BIEMBA | $3,000 |
| SCHOLARSHIP GRANT FOR MWIZA ELIZABETH BIEMBA | $2,350 |
| SCHOLARSHIP GRANT FOR SOPHIE NGANDU | $2,075 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your US giving — 34% of grant dollars ($291k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 66% that went abroad ($574k) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Beyond the US — 66% of all-years giving ($574k)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2026, 18 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2026, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC4× · 2017–2020 · $20k · revenue +734%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC6× · 2017–2022 · $20k · revenue +98%- FWFEEDING WESTCHESTER INC3× · 2017–2019 · $10k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- GIGEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY - CHIMUKA CHEEPAone grant, 2021 · $25k
- LULEICESTER UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $17k
- GMGEORGIA MOUNTAINS FARMERS NETWORKone grant, 2025 · $7k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.
Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
Accelerate the advancement of women leaders in the food industry. we believe in limitless opportunity for all women.
To effectively communicate science based information on food safety, nutrition, and health for the public good.
American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…
Isf advisors is the leading strategic and financial advisory group committed to mobilizing capital for a more sustainable, equitable, and productive global food system.
Foundation for food and agriculture research connects funders, researchers and farmers through public-private partnerships to support audacious research addressing the biggest food and agriculture challenges.
Moral compass federation facilitates collaboration among multiple veteran-led nonprofit organizations, individuals, and businesses who came together during the fall of kabul, afghanistan to evacuate and resettle afghan allies who were in…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Nonprofit finance fund is a nonprofit lender, consultant, and advocate. for 45 years, we've helped organizations access the money and resources they need to realize their communities' aspirations. alongside others, we're working to build…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Destiny Housing Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Connecticut Center for Patient Safety. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 44 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA MOUNTAINS FARMERS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
- Who funds MADRE INC ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds FJC ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Cogitare Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.