· Private foundation
The Dunlap-Cogswell 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HIGHLANDS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| EAST ANGEL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $5,500 |
| CROSS OVER MINISTRIES | $4,000 |
| HIGHLANDS CASHIERS LAND TRUST | $3,500 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $3,000 |
| SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| VIRGINIA BAPTIST HOMES FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| BIKES TOGETHER | $3,000 |
| PEGGY CROSBY CENTER | $2,500 |
| THE BASCOM | $2,500 |
| PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $2,500 |
| SAINT MARY'S ACADEMY | $2,500 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES | $2,000 |
| CENTER FOR LIFE ENRICHMENT | $2,000 |
| CASHIERS HIGHLANDS HUMANE SOCIETY | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% of your 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.
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.
36 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- TSTHE STEWARD SCHOOL5× · 2020–2024 · $41k · revenue +28%
- SAST ANNE'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL5× · 2020–2024 · $26k · revenue +33%
- TCTHE CENTER FOR LIFE ENRICHMENT INC8× · 2017–2025 · $15k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- CECNU EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $5k
- VBVIRGINIA BAPTIST HOME FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $5k
- UPURBAN PEAK OF DENVERone grant, 2018 · $4k
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.
To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.
The organization's mission is to sustain a vibrant, healthy and strong community through affordable, culturally competent, quality primary health care.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
The mission of the gibbes museum of art is to enhance lives through art by engaging people of every background and experience with art and artists of enduring quality; collect and preserve the art that touches charleston; and provide…
To create a place of lifelong learning where people, from young child to senior citizen, embrace science as a way of knowing about themselves, their community, and their world.
Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.
To use policy, research, and analysis to advance the well-being of Virginia communities, and improve the economic security and social opportunities of all Virginians.
To provide equal access to quality health care to all persons regardless of age, sex, color, ethnicity, national origin, or the ability to pay.primary activities: medical, dental, vision and related healthcare services.
Museum has a mission to create opportunties for everyone to experience art that broadens understanding of the past, fosters community connections to the present, and creates diverse possbilities for the future.
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…
WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Life Enrichment Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chipley Historic Center. 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 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 73 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 THE STEWARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ST ANNE'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR LIFE ENRICHMENT INC ↗
- Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE CIVIC CANOPY ↗
- Who funds St Anne's Episcopal School Inc ↗
- Who funds Altamaha Riverkeeper Inc ↗
- Who funds Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds Performing Arts Center Inc ↗
- Who funds The Bascom Corporation ↗
- Who funds Chipley Historic Center ↗
- Who funds HIGHLANDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA BAPTIST HOMES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Park Hill Bike Depot dba Bikes Together ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds HENRICO CHRISTMAS MOTHER ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Al Williams Jr Family Foundation Inc · Mountain Findings Inc · The Woodcrest Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Wantoot Foundation Inc · The Bell Family Foundation · The Klamon Family Foundation Inc · Ashcourt Family Foundation Inc · The Inman Foundation · Brighton Foundation Trust Robert D Markley Trustee · The H 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 Dunlap-Cogswell 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.
- St Anne's Episcopal School — 0% 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.