· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| TWICE AS SMART INC | $2,500 |
| AMHERST WOMANS CLUB INC | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
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: Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Cowls Jones Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cowls Jones Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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