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The Cowles Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
262
Grants FY2024still arriving
23
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$3.6MEducation$1.5MHealth$939kInternational$471kReligion$464kCrime & Legal$451kHuman Services$432kEnvironment$322kOther$0
02FY2024 · 262 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k212 grants · $725k
  • $10k–50k50 grants · $660k
$4,000
Median grant
23
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GRASP$45,000
FRACTURED ATLAS - BRIDGE INITIATIVE$40,000
WASSAIC PROJECT$20,000
DORA MAAR CULTURAL CENTER$20,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$20,000
WOMEN'S STUDIO WORKSHOP$20,000
GRANT FOUNDATION$17,500
VANGUARD SCHOOL$17,500
SISTER CITIES ESSEX HAITI INC$15,000
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART$15,000
LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL$15,000
ART EFFECT OF THE HUDSON VALLEY INC$15,000
UNIVERSAL SHAIVA FELLOWSHIP$15,000
STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM$15,000
ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL$12,500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $479k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FLORIDA UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME: $6k → 12%LEARNING ALLY: $5k → 11%LEARNING ALLY: $5k → 11%LEARNING ALLY: $5k → 11%LEARNING ALLY: $5k → 11%LEARNING ALLY: $5k → 11%LEARNING ALLY: $4k → 11%LEARNING ALLY: $4k → 11%METROWEST WOMEN'S FUND: $8k → 8%LEARNING ALLY: $4k → 11%METROWEST WOMEN'S FUND: $5k → 8%STRENGTH IN ACTION: $8k → 10%STRENGTH IN ACTION: $5k → 10%STRENGTH IN ACTION: $5k → 10%FRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE: $10k → 15%MINDFUL KIDS MIAMI: $10k → 15%SECOND CHANCE LAST OPPORTUNITY: $8k → 9%SECOND CHANCE LAST OPPORTUNITY: $6k → 9%SECOND CHANCE-LAST OPPORTUNITY: $5k → 9%FLORIDA CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD: $5k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF THE SUNCO: $8k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF THE SUNCO: $8k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF THE SUNCO: $8k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF THE SUNCO: $8k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF THE SUNCO: $8k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF THE SUNCO: $5k → 9%RESURRECTION HOUSE: $10k → 9%FRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE: $10k → 15%RESURRECTION HOUSE: $10k → 9%RESURRECTION HOUSE: $10k → 9%FRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE: $10k → 15%FRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE: $10k → 15%FRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE: $10k → 15%FRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE: $5k → 15%BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK INC: $8k → 17%BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK INC: $8k → 17%LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $10k → 17%LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $10k → 17%LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $10k → 17%LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $10k → 17%LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $10k → 17%LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $10k → 17%LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $8k → 17%LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $8k → 17%BOWERY RESIDENTS COMMITTEE: $5k → 17%BOWERY RESIDENTS COMMITTEE: $5k → 17%BOWERY RESIDENTS COMMITTEE: $5k → 17%SPENCE-CHAPIN SERVICES TO FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.4M · 331 repeat orgs$611k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

331 repeat relationships — 202 still active in FY2024, 129 since wound down; 58 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

331
136

Total granted

$9.4M
$457k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+21%

Still filing today

78%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $154k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentInternationalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • GF
    GRANT FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $168k · revenue +204%
  • WS
    Women's Studio Workshop Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $158k · revenue +28%
  • RA
    REACH AND TEACH MINISTRY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $125k · revenue +130% · 60% of their budget

Funded once

  • BI
    BRIDGE INITIATIVE
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • BI
    BRIDGE INITIATIVE
    one grant, 2018 · $18k
  • PF
    Physicians For Reproductive Health
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +17%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio Inc El Museo Del Barrio

El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.

Arts & Culture
2
Artpace Inc (Audit)

Artpace san antonio is a nonprofit residency program which supports texas, national, and international artists in the creation of new art. see schedule o for continuation.

Arts & Culture
3
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
4
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
5
Studio in a School Association Inc

From classrooms to careers, studio in a school expands access to visual arts education and professions in the arts by partnering with practicing artists, schools, and cultural institutions.

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6
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
7
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
8
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
9
Apex Art Curatorial Program Inc

Apex Art Curatorial Program is a resolutely noncommercial visual art exhibition space which provides curators and artists with a venue dedicated to ideas that are often too provocative or too small in scope for display elsewhere. Apex Art…

Arts & Culture
10
New York Academy of Art

The new york academy of art is a unique graduate school that combines intensive technical training in the fine arts with active critical discourse. we believe that rigorously trained artists are best able to realize their artistic vision.…

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11
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
12
Women's Project & Productions Inc

Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Audiences New York Inc and the most unlike its peers is Iqair Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsCommunity Arts CentersPolicy Research and AdvocacyFood Banks and PantriesJewish Community Organizati…Dance Arts OrganizationsLocal History MuseumsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Community Food PantriesPregnancy Support ServicesCommunity College Foundatio…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Public Library OperationsSenior Support ServicesLocal Food System Organizat…Immigrant Worker SupportYouth Development ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…Elementary Literacy TutoringOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Lgbtq+ Community SupportYouth Sports ProgramsDomestic Violence ServicesIndependent K-12 SchoolsEnvironmental Conservation …Health Access Advocacy and …Animal Rescue and ShelterChristian Missionary Organi…Cancer Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr16%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%17%20–35yr13%33%35–55yr16%34%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.7%3/411
the rest of the field
13%
240,393/1,819,154

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 395 of the 528 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
80
Early backer (in before they grew)
390/395
Grantees still filing
273/395
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GRASP — $150,000 · Other+94 more — $3,606,200 · Other+94 moreWomen's Studio Workshop Inc — $158,000 · Arts & CultureWomen's Studio Workshop In…ARTS MID-HUDSON INC — $105,000 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern Art — $95,000 · Arts & CultureNU DECO ENSEMBLE INC — $94,000 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE TIME INC — $90,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES — $80,000 · Arts & CultureTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM — $80,000 · Arts & Culture+40 more — $1,325,500 · Arts & Culture+40 moreTRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL — $115,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF …THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL OF WESTON INC — $112,000 · EducationTHE CAMBRIDG…ALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL — $87,500 · EducationALLEN-CHASE …Bowdoin College — $70,500 · EducationBowdoin Coll…NEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC — $70,000 · EducationNEW WORLD SY…The Madeira School — $70,000 · EducationThe Madeira …RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC — $63,500 · EducationRINGLING COL…NORTHSIDE CENTER FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC — $52,750 · EducationNORTHSIDE CE…LONGHOUSE RESERVE — $49,000 · EducationThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $35,000 · EducationGREEN STREET ACADEMY INC — $34,000 · EducationBALTIMORE EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP TRUST — $33,000 · EducationVANGUARD SCHOOL OF LAKE WALES FLORIDA INC — $32,500 · Education+6 more — $110,500 · Education+6 moreGRANT FOUNDATION INC — $167,500 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $107,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $90,000 · InternationalSISTER CITIES ESSEX HAITI INC — $82,500 · InternationalAMERICAS SOCIETY INC — $43,500 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $30,000 · InternationalRAZOM INC — $30,000 · International+2 more — $30,000 · InternationalFIGHTING CHANCE INC — $87,500 · HealthGENESIS HEALTH SERVICES INC — $85,000 · HealthThe Multi-Cultural Health Institute — $80,000 · HealthSafe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc — $41,500 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $41,000 · HealthGAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS INC — $37,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC — $35,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL FLORIDA INC — $32,000 · HealthApollo Pact Inc — $32,000 · HealthTHE SOUTHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME — $26,000 · HealthLENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE INC — $55,000 · Human ServicesJewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast Inc — $42,500 · Human ServicesLearning Ally Inc — $37,000 · Human ServicesRESURRECTION HOUSE INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $30,000 · Human ServicesMINDFUL KIDS MIAMI INC — $27,500 · Human ServicesNEW YORK FOUNDLING — $26,000 · Human ServicesSECOND CHANCE - LAST OPPORTUNITY — $25,500 · Human ServicesBROOKLYN BUREAU OF COMMUNITY SERVICE — $25,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT 180 SARASOTA INC — $23,500 · Human ServicesBOWERY RESIDENTS COMMITTEE INC — $21,000 · Human ServicesSPENCE-CHAPIN SERVICES TO FAMILIES AND CHILDREN — $20,000 · Human ServicesSTRENGTH IN ACTION INC — $17,500 · Human Services+1 more — $15,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $94,000 · Crime & LegalGRASP INC — $87,000 · Crime & LegalEVIDENT CHANGE — $45,000 · Crime & LegalBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $34,250 · Crime & LegalTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY — $23,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$3,756,200Arts & Culture$2,027,500Education$935,250International$581,000Health$497,500Human Services$470,500Crime & Legal$283,250

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetNU DECO ENSEMBLE INC — $94,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $94,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $90,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCREATIVE TIME INC — $90,000 over 7y, 0.9% 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 BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES — $80,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Multi-Cultural Health Institute — $80,000 over 8y, 57% of budgetTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM — $80,000 over 7y, 0.1% 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 budgetNEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC — $70,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetThe Madeira School — $70,000 over 7y, 0.1% 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 budgetTHE DOE FUND INC — $50,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDORA MAAR CULTURAL CENTER FKA NANCY B NEGLEY ARTISTS RESIDENCY PROGRAM — $50,000 over 4y, 38% 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 budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC — $45,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE USA INC — $45,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetEVIDENT CHANGE — $45,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORKERS FOR PARKS — $45,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds GRANT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Women's Studio Workshop Inc ↗
  • Who funds REACH AND TEACH MINISTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL OF WESTON INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTS MID-HUDSON INC ↗
  • Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
  • Who funds NU DECO ENSEMBLE INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds CREATIVE TIME INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds FIGHTING CHANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds GRASP INC ↗
  • Who funds GENESIS HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds SISTER CITIES ESSEX HAITI INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
  • Who funds The Multi-Cultural Health Institute ↗
  • Who funds THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM ↗
  • Who funds LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
  • Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
  • Who funds NEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC ↗
  • Who funds The Madeira School ↗
  • Who funds GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds THE WASSAIC PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Arison Arts FoundationThe Andy Warhol Found…The New York Communit…The Andrew W Mellon F…The Hyde and Watson F…Lily Auchincloss Foun…The Ford FoundationThe Community Foundat…May and Samuel Rudin …Robert Lehman Foundat…Helen Frankenthaler F…Charles & Margery Bar…
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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Cowles Charitable Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 270%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Jewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast Inc — 67% of income from government
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
  • Friends of the Underline Inc — 66% of income from government
  • Govans Ecumenical Development Corp — 28% of income from government
  • Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc — 23% of income from government
  • Pines of Sarasota Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Community Action Stops Abuse Inc — 13% of income from government
  • The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Brookwood Florida Inc — 7% of income from government
  • The Sundari Foundation Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Lunch Break Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Learning Ally Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Vizcaya Museum and Gardens Trust Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Camillus House Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Vermont Studio Center Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Nu Deco Ensemble Inc — 1% of income from government
  • National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Inc — 0% of income from government
  • New World Symphony Inc — 0% of income from government
  • The Cushman School Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Guadalupe Center Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
27get no government money at all
61report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

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How do I get to The Cowles Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to The Cowles Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 528 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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