Wisconsin · Private foundation
The Coss 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.
- $6k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $587
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $587
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $99k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations The Coss Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $6k | 70% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $6k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $6k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $7k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $7k | 7% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $8k | 44% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $8k | 8% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $9k | 91% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Union Gospel Mission Inc | $4,375 | 7 | 0% |
| River Falls Community Food Pantry | $4,325 | 7 | 0% |
| Listening House of St Paul Inc | $4,175 | 7 | 0% |
| No Dog Left Behind | $3,722 | 7 | 0% |
| Dunn County Humane Society Inc | $3,675 | 7 | 0% |
| Last Hope Inc | $3,675 | 7 | 0% |
| Second Harvest Heartland | $3,162 | 6 | 0% |
| Our Neighbors Place Inc | $2,306 | 2 | 0% |
| Pepin County Food Pantry Inc | $2,162 | 4 | 1% |
| Neighbors Inc | $1,550 | 3 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Union Gospel Mission Inc | $4,375 | 7 | 0% |
| River Falls Community Food Pantry | $4,325 | 7 | 0% |
| Listening House of St Paul Inc | $4,175 | 7 | 0% |
| No Dog Left Behind | $3,722 | 7 | 0% |
| Dunn County Humane Society Inc | $3,675 | 7 | 0% |
| Last Hope Inc | $3,675 | 7 | 0% |
| Second Harvest Heartland | $3,162 | 6 | 0% |
| Our Neighbors Place Inc | $2,306 | 2 | 0% |
| Pepin County Food Pantry Inc | $2,162 | 4 | 1% |
| Neighbors Inc | $1,550 | 3 | 0% |
| Lucky Paws Midwest Inc | $1,306 | 4 | n/a |
| River Falls Youth Hockey Association Inc | $800 | 3 | 0% |
| Bullis School | $587 | 1 | 0% |
| Catholic Charities USA | $587 | 1 | n/a |
| Children's Theatre Company and School | $587 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Minnesota Foundation | $587 | 1 | 0% |
| Red Apple Center Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Cannon Falls Food Shelf Inc | $300 | 1 | 0% |
| River Falls Sunshine Fund Inc | $243 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($27k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Coss Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Xcel Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Otto Bremer Trust · Land O'Lakes Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
About The Coss Foundation
- How much does The Coss Foundation give?
- The Coss Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $5,869 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Coss Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (27%), Animals (22%), Housing & Shelter (15%).
- Who are The Coss Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Union Gospel Mission Inc ($4k), River Falls Community Food Pantry ($4k), Listening House of St Paul Inc ($4k).
- Does The Coss Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Coss 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 Coss Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Xcel Energy Foundation, Mightycause Charitable Foundation, Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation.
- Where is The Coss Foundation based?
- The Coss Foundation is based in WI.
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