How much does The Cosman Family Foundation give?

The Cosman Family Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $397,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.

What does The Cosman Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (76%), International (7%), Science & Tech (5%).

Who are The Cosman Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Earth Economics ($420k), Natural Resources Defense Council Inc ($207k), Climate Solutions ($126k).

Does The Cosman Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Cosman 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 Cosman Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bullitt Foundation, Seattle Foundation, Sustainable Path Foundation.

Where is The Cosman Family Foundation based?

The Cosman Family Foundation is based in NJ.

The Cosman Family Foundation

The Cosman Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Cosman Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$397k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$60k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Environment$1.7MInternational$152kScience & Tech$115kCivil Rights$67kEducation$45kHuman Services$36kAnimals$33kPublic Benefit$23kOther$0

02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k9 grants · $57k
$10k–50k17 grants · $280k
$50k–250k1 grant · $60k

$13,000

Median grant

States reached

$9.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
EARTH ECONOMICS	$60,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC	$35,000
UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC	$25,000
CLIMATE SOLUTIONS	$22,000
CONSERVATION NW	$21,000
SUSTAINABLE PATH FOUNDATION	$20,000
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC	$17,000
CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE	$16,000
SIGHTLINE INSTITUTE	$16,000
CARE INC	$13,000
NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION	$13,000
TOXIC FREE FUTURE	$13,000
MERCY CORPS	$13,000
SOUTHERN UTAH WILDERNESS ALLIANCE	$13,000
NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION	$13,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.3M · 29 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

29 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.3M

$10k

Still filing today

79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentInternationalEducationSocial ScienceCrime & LegalHuman ServicesOther

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

NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $207k · revenue +37%
CS
CLIMATE SOLUTIONS
7× · 2018–2024 · $126k · revenue +154%
CN
CONSERVATION NW
7× · 2018–2024 · $106k · revenue +79%

Funded once

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PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
one grant, 2021 · $10k

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.

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment

Center for Sustainable Economy

Promoting economic sustainability

Environment

Washington Forest Law Center

Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.

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Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights

Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment

Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals

Cascadia Wildlands

Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…

Environment

Northwest Environmental Defense Center

Nedc's mission is to work toward a future in which the pacific northwest leads the nation in developing, implementing & enforcing strong laws and regulations that protect the environment & human health, and where our governments &…

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Fsc I&P

Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…

Philanthropy

Environment Now

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Nw Energy Coalition

The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc; the most unlike its peers is Center for Sustainable Infrastructure. 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

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 31 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

24/24

Grantees still filing

19/24

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Environment$1,279,000Other$420,000International$267,000Social Science$120,000Crime & Legal$67,000Education$45,000Human Services$36,000Animals$33,000

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

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.

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 Bullitt FoundationWA19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bullitt Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Sustainable Path Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Kaleidoscope Foundation · Ridge Road Foundation · Stolte Family Foundation · Laird Norton Family Foundation · The Russell Family Foundation · The Rose Foundation for Communities the Environment · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Puget Sound Energy Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home