Arizona · Private foundation
The Cowley Family 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.
- $387k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $126,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations The Cowley Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 20 | $387k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $354k | 36% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $370k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $335k | 48% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $338k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $224k | 39% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $219k | 65% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $220k | 85% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Teach for America Inc | $500,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University | $329,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Maricopa County Community College District Foundation | $275,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Arizona Brainfood Inc | $246,500 | 8 | 5% |
| The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research | $150,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Valleywise Health Foundation | $136,408 | 3 | 5% |
| Human Services Campus Inc | $80,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Forever Young Foundation for Children | $42,866 | 3 | 0% |
| Our Rescue | $42,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Valley Inc | $40,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 51 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($441k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Cowley Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 42 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: 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
How this is measured
About The Cowley Family Foundation
- How much does The Cowley Family Foundation give?
- The Cowley Family Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $386,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Cowley Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (49%), Health (15%), Food & Nutrition (13%).
- Who are The Cowley Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Teach for America Inc ($500k), Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University ($330k), Maricopa County Community College District Foundation ($275k).
- Does The Cowley Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Cowley Family 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 Cowley Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arizona Community Foundation, The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation, Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust.
- Where is The Cowley Family Foundation based?
- The Cowley Family Foundation is based in AZ.
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