· Private foundation
The Cowls Jones 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| CENTER FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INC | $5,000 |
| SURVIVAL CENTER | $4,893 |
| MASSACHUSETTS FOREST TRUST | $3,000 |
| AMHERST WOMANS CLUB INC | $2,500 |
| TWICE AS SMART INC | $2,500 |
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 (FY24–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
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.
To promote the interests of the university of massachusetts amherst through programs, services and communications that develop and reinforce the bonds between the university and its alumni; to validate the value and alumni pride in the…
We create opportunities for the people of massachusetts to transform their lives and build a more equitable commonwealth through the humanities.
Operation of public access, educuational,and governmental television channels.
Mass farmers markets partners wtih farmers, consumers, and communities to improve the health of individuals, strenghten community vitality, and enhance local farm viability through farmers markets.
The organization protects massachusetts natural resources by supporting conservation commissions through education and advocacy.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Land conservation and open space preservation
The franklin land trust works to conserve farms, forests, wildlands, and other natural resources significant to the quality of the environment, economy, and rural character of western massachusetts.
To promote educational, civic, social, commercial, agricultural and economic welfare of the people of amherst, massachusetts & vicinity; to preserve and distribute civic educational information.
Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.
Amherst college educates students of exceptional potential from all backgrounds so that they may seek value and advance knowledge, engage the world around them, and lead principled lives of consequence. amherst brings together the most…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Survival Centers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nipmuc Indian Development Corp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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.
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 UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NIPMUC INDIAN DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds SURVIVAL CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Forest Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds TWICE AS SMART INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMHERST WOMANS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HOSPICE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds AMHERST CINEMA ARTS 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: Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Cowls Jones 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Center for Human Development Inc — 26% of income from government
- Nipmuc Indian Development Corp — 24% of income from government
- Survival Centers Inc — 9% of income from government
- Friends of Hospice House Inc — 2% of income from government
- Amherst Cinema Arts Center Inc — 1% 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.