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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.

$124k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2026
13
Organizations funded FY2025
69%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$6,000
Largest grant, FY2026
$19,700
Organizations funded a year
5 to 17
FY2019 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
1
Total assets, FY2026
$439k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 69% of the organizations The Cogitare Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 66% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther
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
FY2026still arriving16$124k31%
FY202513$120k69%
FY20245$97k40%
FY20236$59k33%
FY202211$37k9%
FY202111$62k9%
FY202013$66k15%
FY201917$136k24%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2026.

Education$746kInternational$36kFood & Nutrition$22kEnvironment$20kHealth$12kHousing & Shelter$10kArts & Culture$10kRecreation & Sports$6kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
CT
VA
KS
SC
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 13 grantees
All grantees of The Cogitare Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$20,00060%
National Network of Abortion Funds Inc$20,00040%
Feeding Westchester Inc$10,0003n/a
The Doe Fund Inc$9,00060%
Georgia Mountains Farmers Network$7,000113%
Fresh Air Fund$6,00060%
Madre Inc$4,50070%
Lowcountry Food Bank Inc$3,50020%
International Rescue Committee INC$3,50030%
New Destiny Housing Corporation$1,02510%
Connecticut Foodshare Inc$1,00010%
Connecticut Center for Patient Safety$1,00011%
My Possibilities$1,00010%

Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($773k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $20,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNational Network of Abortion Funds Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Doe Fund Inc: $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgia Mountains Farmers Network: $7,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetFresh Air Fund: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMadre Inc: $4,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLowcountry Food Bank Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew Destiny Housing Corporation: $1,025 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConnecticut Foodshare Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConnecticut Center for Patient Safety: $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMy Possibilities: $1,000 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 12.

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About The Cogitare Foundation

How much does The Cogitare Foundation give?
The Cogitare Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $124,344 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 17 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
What does The Cogitare Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (86%), International (4%), Food & Nutrition (2%).
Who are The Cogitare Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($20k), National Network of Abortion Funds Inc ($20k), Feeding Westchester Inc ($10k).
Does The Cogitare Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 69% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Cogitare 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.
Where is The Cogitare Foundation based?
The Cogitare 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 44 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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