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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 FY2026still arriving
16
Grants FY2026still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2026 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k10 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $82k
$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$439k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%OXFAM: $1k → 16%FOOD BANK FOR WESTCHESTER: $5k → 9%NEW DESTINY HOUSING CORP: $1k → 17%KICKSTARTERCOM: $10k → 20%MY POSSIBILITIES: $1k → 5%LOW COUNTRY FOOD BANK: $3k → 12%WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY: $36k → 16%CT PARTNERSHIP FOR PATIENT SAFETY (CPPS): $2k → 9%CONNECTICUT FOOD BANK: $1k → 12%GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY - CHIMUKA CHEEPA: $25k → 13%GEORGIA MOUNTAINS FARMERS NETWORK: $7k → 14%CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $2k → 9%OXFAM: $1k → 16%FOOD BANK FOR WESTCHESTER: $4k → 9%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $4k → 17%KICKSTARTERCOM: $5k → 20%LOW COUNTRY FOOD BANK: $1k → 12%WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY: $29k → 16%CT CENTER FOR PATIENT SAFETY: $1k → 9%SCHOLARSHIP GRANT FOR CHIMUKA CHEEPA: $20k → 13%OXFAM: $1k → 16%FOOD BANK FOR WESTCHESTER: $1k → 9%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $4k → 17%Wichita State University: $15k → 16%NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $1k → 9%SCHOLARSHIP GRANT FOR CHIMUKA CHEEPA: $16k → 13%OXFAM: $1k → 16%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $4k → 17%NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $1k → 9%SCHOLARSHIP GRANT FOR CHIMUKA CHEEPA: $14k → 13%OXFAM: $1k → 16%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $4k → 17%SCHOLARSHIP GRANT FOR CHIMUKA CHEEPA: $8k → 13%OXFAM: $1k → 16%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $2k → 17%SCHOLARSHIP GRANT FOR CHIMUKA CHEEPA: $5k → 13%FJC A FOUNDATION OF PHILANTHROPIC FUNDS: $2k → 17%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $2k → 17%MADRE: $2k → 17%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $2k → 17%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $1k → 17%THE DOE FUND: $7k → 17%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE: $2k → 17%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE: $1k → 17%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE: $1k → 17%THE FRESH AIR FUND: $1k → 17%THE FRESH AIR FUND: $1k → 17%THE FRESH AIR FUND: $1k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
CT
VA
KS
SC
GA
TX

Beyond the US: 66% of all-years giving ($574k)

2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Zambia$557k · 48 grants
United Kingdom$17k · 1 grant
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$781k · 29 repeat orgs$79k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
8

Total granted

$781k
$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
0%

Still filing today

28%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
InternationalHousing & ShelterEnvironmentRecreation & SportsPublic Safety & DisasterFood & NutritionOther
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
    6× · 2017–2022 · $20k · revenue +98%
  • NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $20k · revenue +734%
  • FW
    FEEDING WESTCHESTER INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $10k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • GI
    GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY - CHIMUKA CHEEPA
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • LU
    LEICESTER UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $17k
  • GM
    GEORGIA MOUNTAINS FARMERS NETWORK
    one grant, 2025 · $7k · revenue 0%
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
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

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…

Health
2
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

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3
Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International
4
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
5
Women's Foodservice Forum

Accelerate the advancement of women leaders in the food industry. we believe in limitless opportunity for all women.

Food & Nutrition
6
International Food Information Council

To effectively communicate science based information on food safety, nutrition, and health for the public good.

Arts & Culture
7
American Foreign Service Association

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…

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8
Isf Advisors Inc

Isf advisors is the leading strategic and financial advisory group committed to mobilizing capital for a more sustainable, equitable, and productive global food system.

Food & Nutrition
9
Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research

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.

Food & Nutrition
10
Moral Compass Federation Inc

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…

Public Benefit
11
Npr Foundation

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…

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12
Nonprofit Finance Fund

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…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Destiny Housing Corporation; 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.
04the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $235,074 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY: $80,292 · OtherWICHITA STATE UNIVERSITYIndividual grant recipient: $62,760 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSCHOLARSHIP GRANT FOR CHIMUKA CHEEPA: $62,417 · OtherSCHOLARSHIP GRANT FOR CHIMUKA CHEEPASCHOLARSHIP GRANT FOR ARNOLD PELEKELO: $36,109 · OtherSCHOLARSHIP GRANT FOR MWICHE NAMBELA: $35,500 · OtherSIMOONGA PRIMARY SCHOOL: $33,430 · Other+28 more: $245,674 · Other+28 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $20,000 · InternationalMADRE INC: $4,500 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $3,500 · InternationalNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentTHE DOE FUND INC: $9,000 · Housing & ShelterNEW DESTINY HOUSING CORPORATION: $1,025 · Housing & ShelterGEORGIA MOUNTAINS FARMERS NETWORK: $7,000 · Food & NutritionFRESH AIR FUND: $6,000 · Recreation & SportsCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $2,000 · Philanthropy
Other$791,256International$28,000Environment$20,000Housing & Shelter$10,025Food & Nutrition$7,000Recreation & Sports$6,000Philanthropy$2,000

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

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 budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFJC: $2,000 over 1y, 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
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.

  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS 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 CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds FJC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Cogitare Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cogitare Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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