· Private foundation
The Cowley 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $232k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Maricopa County Community Colleges Founda | $100,000 |
| Teach For America | $80,000 |
| ASU Foundation | $51,500 |
| AZ Brainfood | $29,500 |
| The Michael J Fox Foundation | $25,000 |
| Keys To Change | $10,000 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the East Valley | $5,000 |
| Maricopa County Fair | $5,000 |
| St Mary's Food Bank Alliance | $5,000 |
| National MS Society | $5,000 |
| Doctors Without Borders | $3,000 |
| American Diabetes Association | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| The Foster Alliance | $3,000 |
| Paz de Cristo | $3,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- ABARIZONA BRAINFOOD INC7× · 2017–2024 · $217k · revenue +39%
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY4× · 2021–2024 · $203k · revenue +94%- MCMARICOPA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $175k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2018 · $100k
- MCMESA COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $75k
- TCTHE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS - PHILANTHROPIESone grant, 2020 · $28k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Bringing arizonans together to create a stronger and brighter future for our state.
To provide children and youth in arizona a safe environment, free from abuse and neglect, by creating strong and successful families.
Phoenix children's hospital foundation supports phoenix children's hospital through fundraising ensuring that the hospital continues to stay on the leading edge of pediatric medicine and is equipped to fulfill its mission to advance hope,…
To advocate for and act on education improvements that advance the quality of life for all arizonans.
Develop solutions to end hunger through food banking, public policy and innovation.
The mission of fresh start women's foundation is to provide access and resources that help women achieve self-sufficiency and use their strength to thrive. we do this work in pursuit of our vision to create unlimited opportunities for…
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
The fibrous dysplasia foundation serves people affected with fibrous dysplasia/mccune-albright syndrome through programs of research, education, awareness and support.
The mission of arizona's children association is to protect children, empower youth, and strengthen families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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.
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 27 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
40 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. 40 of the 71 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA BRAINFOOD INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MARICOPA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds Human Services Campus Inc ↗
- Who funds FOREVER YOUNG FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds OUR RESCUE ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CENTRAL ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds MARICOPA COUNTY FAIR INC ↗
- Who funds FOOTSTEPS FOR FERTILITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHANDLER FIREFIGHTERS CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds Susan E Stanton Foundation (The) ↗
- Who funds TOSSIN' AWAY ALS ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN YOUTH SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds RESEARCH AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Burton Family Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · American Express Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Cowley Family Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of America — 21% of income from government
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.