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The Cowles Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
262
Grants FY2024
237
Organizations funded FY2023
27%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$45,000
Organizations funded a year
174 to 237
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
23
Total assets, FY2024
$13M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 27% of the organizations The Cowles Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $306k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationEnvironmentCrime & LegalOther
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
FY2024still arriving260$1.4M22%
FY2023237$1.3M27%
FY2022219$1.2M20%
FY2021234$1.3M25%
FY2020190$1.2M22%
FY2019199$1.3M20%
FY2018187$1.1M25%
FY2017174$1.1Mn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$3.6MEducation$1.5MHealth$939kInternational$471kReligion$464kCrime & Legal$451kHuman Services$432kEnvironment$322kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of The Cowles Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Grant Foundation Inc$167,50081%
Women's Studio Workshop Inc$158,00084%
Reach and Teach Ministry Inc$125,000860%
Trustees of the Lawrenceville School$115,00060%
The Cambridge School of Weston Inc$112,00060%
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc$107,50080%
Arts Mid-Hudson Inc$105,00082%
Museum of Modern Art$95,00070%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$94,00080%
Nu Deco Ensemble Inc$94,00081%
Creative Time Inc$90,00071%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$90,00080%
Allen-Chase Foundation Dba Eaglebrook School$87,50060%
Fighting Chance Inc$87,50058%
Grasp Inc$87,000255%
Genesis Health Services Inc$85,00085%
Sister Cities Essex Haiti Inc$82,500824%
The Studio Museum in Harlem$80,00070%
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences$80,00070%
The Multi-Cultural Health Institute$80,000857%
Lenox Hill Neighborhood House Inc$75,00080%
Mote Marine Laboratory Inc$73,00080%
Bowdoin College$70,50060%
Sarasota Suncoast Community Church Inc$70,0007n/a
The Madeira School$70,00070%
New World Symphony Inc$70,00070%
Wolfsonian Inc$70,0007n/a
God's Love We Deliver Inc$67,50060%
New York Common Pantry$65,00080%
The Wassaic Project Inc$64,50071%
Ringling College of Art and Design Inc$63,50080%
New York Botanical Garden$63,00080%
Whitney Museum of American Art$60,00060%
Monmouth County Spca$55,00060%
Friends of the Underline Inc$55,00062%
Northside Center for Child Development Inc$52,75080%
Public Art Fund Inc$52,50080%
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens Trust Inc$51,00080%
Dora Maar Cultural Center Fka Nancy B Negley Artists Residency Program$50,000438%
The Doe Fund Inc$50,00070%
Longhouse Reserve$49,00071%
Greyhound Advancement Center Inc$47,5007n/a
Museum of the City of New York$47,50060%
Metropolitan Museum of Art$47,50050%
Citymeals-On-Wheels$47,50060%
The Art Effect of the Hudson Valley Inc$46,00032%
Temple Emanu-El$45,0005n/a
Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting Inc$45,00082%
Evident Change$45,00050%
Equal Justice USA Inc$45,00061%
New Yorkers for Parks$45,00071%
Miami City Ballet Inc$44,50080%
New York Shakespeare Festival$44,00080%
Americas Society Inc$43,50080%
The Chinati Foundation$43,00081%
Jewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast Inc$42,50060%
Brooklyn Academy of Music Inc$42,00080%
Des Moines Symphony Association$42,00080%
Poets and Writers Inc$41,50080%
Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc$41,50080%
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc$41,00050%
The American Federation of Arts Inc$40,00070%
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Inc$40,00070%
City Parks Foundation Inc$40,00080%
The Partnership to End Homelessness Inc$38,50050%
New York City Ballet Inc$38,00070%
East Harlem Tutorial Program Inc$37,50060%
Girls Incorporated of Sarasota County$37,50071%
Gay Men's Health Crisis Inc$37,50060%
Vermont Studio Center Inc$37,00070%
Learning Ally Inc$37,00080%
School of American Ballet Inc$36,00070%
Lower East Side Tenement Museum$35,50080%
Center for Spiritual and Ethical Education Inc$35,50071%
Planned Parenthood of Greater New York Inc$35,00050%
Community Action Stops Abuse Inc$35,00030%
The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations$35,00070%
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Inc$35,00070%
The Drawing Center Inc$35,00070%
Florida CraftArt Inc$35,00071%
Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence$34,25080%
Green Street Academy Inc$34,00080%
Protect Our Winters$33,50050%
Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trust$33,00070%
Storm King Art Center$33,00070%
The Bronx Museum of the Arts$33,00060%
Vanguard School of Lake Wales Florida Inc$32,50020%
The Jewish Museum$32,50050%
Apollo Pact Inc$32,000420%
Breast Cancer Action$32,00061%
Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida Inc$32,00050%
New York City Center Inc$32,00080%
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc$31,50080%
The Paley Center for Media$30,50080%
World Central Kitchen Inc$30,00020%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$30,00020%
Resurrection House Inc$30,0003n/a
Razom Inc$30,00030%
Coalition for the Homeless Inc$30,00060%
Universal Shaiva Fellowship$30,0002n/a
Food Bank for New York City$29,00070%
Central Park Conservancy Inc$28,00060%
Byrd Hoffman Water Mill Foundation$28,00050%
Socrates Sculpture Park Inc$27,50080%
Mindful Kids Miami Inc$27,50052%
Artcouncil Inc Dba Artadia$27,00060%
For the Children$27,00041%
The Southampton Fresh Air Home$26,00080%
New York Foundling$26,00080%
Second Chance - Last Opportunity$25,50031%
Brooklyn Bureau of Community Service$25,00080%
Dia Center for the Arts Inc$25,00030%
The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art Foundation Incorporated$25,00050%
St George's School$25,00030%
Artists Space Inc$25,00021%
Art21 Inc$25,00060%
Lunch Break Inc$24,50070%
Fresh Air Fund$24,00080%
Council on the Environment Inc$24,00080%
Project 180 Sarasota Inc$23,50061%
Printed Matter Inc$23,50050%
The Legal Aid Society$23,00040%
Miracle Flights$23,00080%
Apollo Theater Foundation Inc$22,50060%
Bas Fisher Invitational$22,500211%
Cityarts Inc$22,00081%
Govans Ecumenical Development Corp$22,00080%
Cathedral Church of St John the Divine$22,0004n/a
Brooklyn Botanic Garden Corporation$21,50070%
Meals on Wheels of Sarasota Inc$21,20050%
New York Studio School$21,00070%
Bowery Residents Committee Inc$21,00050%
Governors Island Corporation$20,50040%
Wildlife Conservation Society$20,00040%
Palmer Trinity Private School Inc$20,00020%
Museum of Fine Arts of St Petersburg Florida Inc$20,00040%
East Side House Inc$20,00080%
St Petersburg Free Clinic Inc$20,00020%
Teachers College Columbia University$20,00020%
Bridge Initiative$20,0001n/a
Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services Inc$20,00020%
Spence-Chapin Services to Families and Children$20,00050%
Joyce Theater Foundation Inc$19,50070%
Mother Seton Academy Inc$19,5006n/a
Harlem Academy$19,00080%
Sarasota-Bradenton Project Guide Right Inc$19,00064%
Candid$18,00080%
Strength in Action Inc$17,50036%
Second Heart Homes Inc$17,50051%
Friends School of Baltimore Inc$17,00080%
Locust Projects Inc$17,00040%
The Florida Orchestra$16,00030%
Jorge M Perez Art Museum of Miami-Dade County Inc$16,00020%
St Edmunds Retreat Inc$15,0003n/a
The Animal Medical Center$15,00060%
The Cushman School Inc$15,00030%
The Int'L Center for Journalists Inc$15,00030%
Food for the Poor Inc$15,00020%
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Inc$15,00030%
The Bridge Fund of New York Inc$15,00020%
Reef Relief Inc$15,00052%
Buxton Schoolinc$14,50020%
The Foundation for AIDS Research$14,00040%
Brookwood Florida Inc$14,00050%
The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association$13,50070%
Friends of the High Line Inc$13,50040%
American Museum of Natural History$13,50080%
Pollyanna Inc$13,00051%
The Sundari Foundation Inc$12,50030%
Ashley Gibson Barnett Museum of Art at Florida Southern College Inc$12,50020%
Metrowest Women's Fund Inc$12,50022%
National Urban League Inc$12,50080%
Nmdp Foundation$12,00030%
Alaska Whale Foundation$12,00021%
National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Inc$12,00040%
Municipal Art Society of New York$12,00080%
Severn School Inc$12,00040%
Pelican Harbor Seabird Station Inc$11,50060%
The Allen-Stevenson School$11,50040%
Camillus House Inc$11,00030%
Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts Inc$10,50050%
Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Inc$10,50040%
Women's Housing & Economic Development Corporation$10,50060%
Spanish Theatre Repertory Company Ltd$10,50050%
Juntos y Unidos por Puerto Rico Inc$10,00010%
New York Landmarks Conservancy Inc$10,00050%
Children's Museum of the Arts Inc$10,00021%
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals$10,00010%
Edmundson Art Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Physicians For Reproductive Health$10,00010%
Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic Inc$10,00020%
Putney School Inc$10,00010%
Hampshire College Trustees$10,00020%
National Public Radio Inc$10,00020%
Artist Relief Fund Inc$10,0001n/a
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Inc$9,50030%
Hilltop Neighborhood House Inc$9,00030%
Friends of the Bass Museum Inc$9,00020%
Florida Justice Institute Inc$8,50040%
Intrepid Museum Foundation Inc$8,50030%
Literacy for Incarcerated Teens$8,5004n/a
Christian Herald Association Inc$8,50030%
Wnet$8,00020%
Louis Armstrong House Museum$8,00040%
Music That Heals Inc$8,00025%
Visual AIDS for the Arts Inc$7,50031%
Ridgefield Workshop for the Performing Arts Inc$7,50014%
The House of Hope Inc$7,5003n/a
Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc$7,50030%
Guadalupe Center Inc$7,50040%
Boys & Girls Club of Ridgefield$7,50010%
The Carnegie Hall Society Inc$7,50030%
Pines of Sarasota Inc$7,50031%
Metropolitan Center for Mental Health Inc$7,00040%
Lawyers for Good Government Inc$7,00040%
Social Black Belt Inc$7,0001n/a
Tampa Bay Watch Inc$7,00040%
Centerstone of Florida Inc$7,00030%
Protocinema Inc$7,00041%
Child Protection Center Inc$7,00020%
Street Poets Inc$7,00030%
Police Athletic League Inc$7,00020%
Makemia Makerspace Inc$6,70035%
New York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc$6,50030%
Clean and Healthy New York$6,50040%
Education Through Music Inc$6,50040%
New College Foundation Inc$6,50010%
Ladies Empowerment and Action Program Inc$6,00040%
California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation$6,00020%
The Frick Collection$6,00020%
Florida United Methodist Children's Home Inc$6,00010%
The Naples Players Inc$6,00020%
Pines of Sarasota Foundation Inc$5,50020%
Alliance for Young Artists and Writers Inc$5,50030%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$5,00010%
Seventh Regiment Armory Conservancy Inc$5,00020%
Docs in Progress Inc$5,00011%
United States Ski Team Foundation$5,00010%
Artists for Peace and Justice$5,0001n/a
Jazz at Lincoln Center Inc$5,00020%
Tate Americas Foundation$5,00010%
Healthy Humor Inc$5,00020%
The Florida Center for Early Childhood Inc$5,00010%
New York Public Radio$5,00010%
Planned Parenthood Southeast Inc$5,00010%
Can Community Health Inc$5,00010%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Miami New Drama$5,00020%
Jack The Bike Man Inc$5,00030%
Safe Horizon Inc$4,50030%
Idignity Inc$4,50030%
Sunrise Movement Education Fund$4,50020%
Equality Florida Institute Inc$4,50030%
Residency Unlimited Inc$4,50030%
Children First Inc$4,50030%
Forty Carrots of Sarasota Inc$4,50030%
The Salvation Army$4,5003n/a
Book Fairies Inc$4,50030%
Hour Children Inc$4,50030%
Purpose House Ministries Inc$4,50022%
Face Autism Inc$4,30022%
City Report Inc$4,00020%
Casa Valentina Inc$4,00020%
The Campaign Against Hunger Inc$4,00020%
Cultivate Abundance Inc$4,00021%
Ukrainian Museum$4,00020%
Film Forum Inc$4,00020%
University of South Florida Foundation Inc$3,50010%
Civil Liberties Defense Center$3,50020%
Friends of Matenwa Inc$3,50020%
Nxthvn Inc$3,50020%
The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc$3,50020%
Bikes for Tykes Inc$3,50031%
Riverside Park Conservancy Inc$3,00020%
Artists in Residence in Everglades Inc$3,00020%
Guttmacher Institute Inc$3,00020%
The Roskamp Institute Inc$3,00020%
Storefront for Art and Architecture Inc$3,00020%
Swiss Institute$3,00020%
Curatorial Program for Research Inc$3,0002n/a
Manhattan School of Music$3,00020%
GuideStar USA Inc$3,00020%
The Architectural League of New York$3,00020%
Performance Space 122 Inc$3,00020%
ICU Baby Inc$3,00020%
United Hospital Fund of New York$3,00020%
Magnum Cultural Foundation$3,00020%
Canopy Canopy Canopy Inc$3,00020%
Ronald McDonald House of New York Inc$3,00020%
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art$3,00020%
College Guild$3,00021%
The Circus Arts Conservatory Inc$2,50010%
Ps 1 Contemporary Art Center Inc$2,50010%
Poured Out Inc$2,50021%
Earth Island Institute Inc$2,50010%
Beyond Walls Inc$2,50010%
Pro Publica Inc$2,50010%
Urban Justice Center$2,50010%
Iqair Foundation$2,50010%
Sarasota Performing Arts Center Foundation Inc$2,50010%
Casa Familia Inc$2,50020%
The Pierpont Morgan Library$2,50010%
Liberty Science Center$2,50010%
350org$2,50010%
White Columns Inc$2,50010%
Journalism Funding Partners$2,50010%
Hip Hop for Change Inc$2,50010%
New Jersey Seeds Inc$2,50010%
Rainforest Action Network$2,50010%
Harrison Center for the Arts Parents Association Inc$2,50010%
Randall's Island Park Alliance Inc$2,00010%
Project Hospitality Inc$2,00010%
Storyville Center for the Spoken Word Inc$2,00010%
The National Press Club Journalism Institute Inc$2,00010%
LJMN Media Inc$2,00010%
Sarasota-Manatee Jewish Housing Council Inc$2,00010%
Dream in Green Inc$2,00011%
The Peregrine Fund Inc$2,00020%
Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison Inc$2,00010%
Reentry Task Force of Columbia County$2,00012%
Three Virtues Organization Inc$2,0001n/a
Miami Boarding School Inc$2,00010%
Waterfire Providence$2,00010%
Florida Humanities Council Inc$2,00010%
Upstate Films Ltd$2,00010%
New Museum of Contemporary Art$2,00010%
The Door - a Center of Alternatives Inc$2,00010%
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater New York$2,00010%
Artists in Residence Inc$2,00011%
Suncoast Partnership to End Homelessness$2,00010%
Overtown Youth Center Inc$2,00010%
Clean Air Task Force Inc$2,00010%
Blue Lab Preservation Society Inc$2,00011%
Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service Inc$2,00010%
Theatre Tallahassee Inc$2,00011%
The Wooster Group Inc$2,00010%
Goat on a Boat Inc Po Box 327$2,00013%
Developing Radio Partners Inc$1,50011%
Make the Road New York$1,50010%
Achieve Miami Inc$1,50010%
Billie Holiday Theatre Inc$1,50010%
Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art and Storytelling$1,50010%
American Academy of Arts and Letters$1,50010%
Gifft Hill School Inc$1,50010%
Sable Arts Projects Inc$1,5001n/a
Young Musicians Unite Inc$1,50010%
Reunion Sportive d'Haiti Inc$1,50011%
Rocky Mountain Seed Alliance Inc$1,50012%
Prospects Opportunity and Enrichment Inc$1,50010%
The American Agora Foundation Inc$1,5001n/a
Bigs & Littles NYC Mentoring Inc$1,50010%
Galapagos Conservancy Inc$1,50010%
Women of Tomorrow Mentor and Scholarship Program Inc$1,50010%
The Sylvia Center$1,50010%
Youth Fx Inc$1,50010%
Period Inc$1,50010%
Dyckman Farmhouse Museum Alliance$1,50010%
Dimensions Variable (Dv)$1,50013%
The National Black Theatre Workshop$1,50010%
The Appeal Inc$1,50010%
New York Textile Month Inc$1,5001n/a
Queer Art Inc$1,50010%
Health in Harmony$1,50010%
Rehabilitation Through the Arts Inc$1,50010%
Migration Resource Center$1,50011%
Take Action Global Inc$1,50010%
Brooklyn Public Library$1,50010%
Reporters Without Borders Inc$1,50010%
Inreach$1,50010%
Big Waters Land Trust Inc$1,50010%
Alley Pond Environmental Centerinc$1,50010%
STEM From Dance Inc$1,50010%
Thalia Spanish Theatre Inc$1,50010%
Blacksmith Institute Inc$1,50010%
Women Engaged Inc$1,50010%
The Children's Home Society of Florida$1,50010%
Public Leadership Education Network$1,50010%
Buddy System Mia Inc$1,50010%
Bay Journal Media Inc$1,50010%
Technical Assistance Partnership of Arizona$1,50010%
Florida West Coast Public Broadcasting Inc$1,50010%
Teachers Unite Inc$1,50010%
Projects for Haiti Inc$1,50010%
Judson Memorial Church Inc$1,5001n/a
Project Medishare for Haiti Inc$1,50010%
Artists for Humanity Inc$1,50010%
Urban Arts Partnership$1,5001n/a
Institute of Contemporary Art Miami Inc$1,50010%
Hudson River Sloop Clearwater Inc$1,5001n/a
Civic Music Association Des Moines$1,50010%
Primary Information Inc$1,50010%
The Hip Hop Museum$1,50010%
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc$1,50010%
The Fortune Society Inc$1,50010%
NATIONAL BLACK WOMENS HEALTH PROJECT dba BLACK WOMENS HEALTH IMPERATIVE$1,50010%
Center for Artistic Activism Inc$1,50010%
Charity Navigator$1,50010%
Algalita Marine Research and Education$1,50010%
Carriage Trade Gallery Corp$1,50011%
Safe Harbors of the Hudson Inc$1,50010%
Institute Justice and Democracy in Haiti Inc$1,50010%
Young Audiences New York Inc$1,50010%
The Arab-American Family Support Center Inc$1,0001n/a
The Brothers Redefining Opportunity Experience FDN Inc$1,00010%
Association for Encouragement of Childrens Creativity$1,0001n/a
The Osborne Association Inc$1,00010%
Seeding Labs a Non-Profit Corporation$1,00010%
Boffo Inc$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 117 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Cowles Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGrant Foundation Inc: $167,500 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetWomen's Studio Workshop Inc: $158,000 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetReach and Teach Ministry Inc: $125,000 over 8y, 60% of budgetTrustees of the Lawrenceville School: $115,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Cambridge School of Weston Inc: $112,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Union of Concerned Scientists Inc: $107,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetArts Mid-Hudson Inc: $105,000 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $95,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $94,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNu Deco Ensemble Inc: $94,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetCreative Time Inc: $90,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $90,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAllen-Chase Foundation Dba Eaglebrook School: $87,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFighting Chance Inc: $87,500 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetGrasp Inc: $87,000 over 2y, 55% of budgetGenesis Health Services Inc: $85,000 over 8y, 5.3% of budgetSister Cities Essex Haiti Inc: $82,500 over 8y, 24% of budgetThe Studio Museum in Harlem: $80,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences: $80,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Multi-Cultural Health Institute: $80,000 over 8y, 57% of budgetLenox Hill Neighborhood House Inc: $75,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMote Marine Laboratory Inc: $73,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBowdoin College: $70,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Madeira School: $70,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNew World Symphony Inc: $70,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetGod's Love We Deliver Inc: $67,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNew York Common Pantry: $65,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Wassaic Project Inc: $64,500 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetRingling College of Art and Design Inc: $63,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Botanical Garden: $63,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWhitney Museum of American Art: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMonmouth County Spca: $55,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of the Underline Inc: $55,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetNorthside Center for Child Development Inc: $52,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPublic Art Fund Inc: $52,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetVizcaya Museum and Gardens Trust Inc: $51,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDora Maar Cultural Center Fka Nancy B Negley Artists Residency Program: $50,000 over 4y, 38% of budgetThe Doe Fund Inc: $50,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLonghouse Reserve: $49,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetMuseum of the City of New York: $47,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $47,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCitymeals-On-Wheels: $47,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Art Effect of the Hudson Valley Inc: $46,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetFairness & Accuracy in Reporting Inc: $45,000 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetEvident Change: $45,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEqual Justice USA Inc: $45,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetNew Yorkers for Parks: $45,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetMiami City Ballet Inc: $44,500 over 8y, 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 200.

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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.

Arison Arts FoundationFL62.3× affinity29 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arison Arts Foundation · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · The New York Community Trust · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Inc · Robert Lehman Foundation Inc · Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc · Charles & Margery Barancik 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.

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About The Cowles Charitable Trust

How much does The Cowles Charitable Trust give?
The Cowles Charitable Trust reported 262 grants totaling $1,384,800 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 174 and 237 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Cowles Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (36%), Education (15%), Health (9%).
Who are The Cowles Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Grant Foundation Inc ($168k), Women's Studio Workshop Inc ($158k), Reach and Teach Ministry Inc ($125k).
Does The Cowles Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Cowles Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Cowles Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arison Arts Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc, The New York Community Trust.
Where is The Cowles Charitable Trust based?
The Cowles Charitable Trust is based in NY.

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 528 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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