How much does The Cove Charitable Trust give?

The Cove Charitable Trust reported 19 grants totaling $270,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Cove Charitable Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (18%), Education (12%), Recreation & Sports (10%).

Who are The Cove Charitable Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Ayla's Acres No-Kill Animal Rescue Inc ($145k), Buzzards Bay Coalition ($75k), Millstone Wildlife Center ($74k).

Does The Cove Charitable Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Cove Charitable Trust 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 Cove Charitable Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, Trio Foundation of St Louis, Enterprise Holdings Foundation.

Where is The Cove Charitable Trust based?

The Cove Charitable Trust is based in PA.

The Cove Charitable Trust

The Cove Charitable Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

The Cove Charitable Trust

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.

$270k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$41k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Animals$296kEducation$204kRecreation & Sports$166kEnvironment$160kHousing & Shelter$149kFood & Nutrition$146kHuman Services$128kYouth Development$90kOther$0

02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k5 grants · $30k
$10k–50k14 grants · $240k

$13,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
BRIDGE CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL	$41,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MONMOUTH COUNTY	$25,000
YMCA	$23,000
HUNGER FREE AMERICA	$20,000
FOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC	$15,000
SIPPICAN LANDS TRUST INC	$15,000
BROOKLINE FOOD PANTRY	$15,000
ST JOHN'S BREAD & LIFE	$15,000
MT DESERT ISLAND BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY	$14,000
ISLAND HOUSING TRUST	$13,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY	$12,000
MT ANTHONY UNION HS	$12,000
CHARLES RIVER WATERSHED FOUNDATION	$10,000
BUZZARDS BAY COALITION INC	$10,000
SWIM STRONG FOUNDATION INC	$8,000

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 (FY22–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.2M · 27 repeat orgs$484k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.2M

$434k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%

+13%

Still filing today

67%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationFood & NutritionAnimalsEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentHousing & 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.

Backed again, and grew

AA
AYLA'S ACRES NO-KILL ANIMAL RESCUE INC
5× · 2018–2022 · $145k · revenue +51%
BUZZARDS BAY COALITION
4× · 2022–2025 · $75k · revenue +99%
MW
MILLSTONE WILDLIFE CENTER
2× · 2022–2023 · $74k · revenue +55% · 47% of their budget

Funded once

HH
HAVERHILL HOMELESS VETERANS
one grant, 2019 · $59k
NH
NEW HAMPSHIRE TURTLE RESCUE INC
one grant, 2023 · $43k
HV
HOMELESS VETERANS
one grant, 2020 · $34k

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.

Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment

Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment

Food & Water Watch

Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…

Food & Nutrition

Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition

Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter

Maine Appalachian Trail Land Trust

To preserve and protect land surrounding the appalachian trail in maine for public benefit.

Environment

Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals

Food Bank of Central New York

Food bank of central new york is a not-for-profit organization: our mission is to lead the effort to eliminate hunger in our region, through partnerships with others in our community, through education, advocacy, and distribution of…

Food & Nutrition

Natural Areas Conservancy Inc

The natural areas conservancy champions urban natural areas in new york city and across the nation through innovative research, partnerships, and advocacy. we increase the health and resilience of urban forests and wetlands, catalyze…

Environment

Brighton Marine Inc

Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.

Health

Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment

Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Hampshire

NOFA-NH actively promotes organic, regenerative, ecologically sound farming, gardening, eating, and land care practices for healthy communities. NOFA-NH helps people build local, just, and sustainable food systems.

Food & Nutrition

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Side Center for Community Life; the most unlike its peers is Rails to Trails Conservancy. 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

35 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. 35 of the 61 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)

35/35

Grantees still filing

21/35

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$944,833Animals$261,666Environment$150,000Education$118,135Food & Nutrition$88,000Youth Development$82,500Housing & Shelter$46,000

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.

St Louis Community Foundation IncMO16.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · The Chicago Community Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Cove Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cove Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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