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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.

$68k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$4,893
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$2.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Education$50kHuman Services$16kCommunity Improvement$10kEnvironment$3kArts & Culture$1kHealth$1k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Cowls Jones Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNipmuc Indian Development Corp: $10,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetCenter for Human Development Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSurvival Centers Inc: $4,893 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMassachusetts Forest Trust Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetThe Amherst Womans Club Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetFriends of Hospice House Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmherst Cinema Arts Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 8.

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.

Community Foundation of Western MassachusettsMA15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Cowls Jones Foundation

How much does The Cowls Jones Foundation give?
The Cowls Jones Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $67,893 in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does The Cowls Jones Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (62%), Human Services (20%), Community Improvement (12%).
Who are The Cowls Jones Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2024 to FY2025: University of Massachusetts Amherst Foundation Inc ($50k), Nipmuc Indian Development Corp ($10k), Center for Human Development Inc ($6k).
Does The Cowls Jones 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 Cowls Jones Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is The Cowls Jones Foundation based?
The Cowls Jones Foundation is based in DE.

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 9 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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