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The Irving & Marjorie F Cowan Family Foundation Inc

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.

$179k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2025
14
Organizations funded FY2024
36%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$40,000
Organizations funded a year
14 to 24
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$3.2M
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 Irving & Marjorie F Cowan Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthInternationalEducationYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving15$179k33%
FY202414$152k36%
FY202318$168k11%
FY202220$185k15%
FY202119$148k0%
FY202021$150k0%
FY201920$150k20%
FY201824$144k8%
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$722kReligion$331kInternational$141kYouth Development$58kScience & Tech$35kEducation$33kHuman Services$23kAnimals$16kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
MA
CA
KY
TN
DC
LA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 29 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($390k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Irving & Marjorie F Cowan Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMount Sinai Medical Center Foundation: $240,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetJerusalem Foundation Inc: $110,025 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetJoe Dimaggio Children's Hospital Foundation Inc: $80,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $62,201 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Israel Defense Forces: $30,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWomen of Tomorrow Mentor and Scholarship Program Inc: $28,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Southern Florida Inc: $26,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetExperience Aviation Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetElton John AIDS Foundation Inc: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKentucky Equine Humane Center Inc: $10,703 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBrooklyn Law School: $8,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPine Crest Preparatory School Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGrayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Florida After-School All Stars Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOmnipeace Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetJewish Adoption and Foster Care Options Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Florida Pbs Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetParkinson's Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoca Rio Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMiami Jewish Health Systems Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBelmont Child Care Association Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 25.

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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.

United Jewish Community of Broward County IncFL17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Jewish Community of Broward County Inc · Community Foundation of Broward Inc · The Miami Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Irving & Marjorie F Cowan Family Foundation Inc

How much does The Irving & Marjorie F Cowan Family Foundation Inc give?
The Irving & Marjorie F Cowan Family Foundation Inc reported 15 grants totaling $178,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Irving & Marjorie F Cowan Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (51%), Religion (23%), International (10%).
Who are The Irving & Marjorie F Cowan Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center Beth Jacob Inc ($240k), Mount Sinai Medical Center Foundation ($240k), Jerusalem Foundation Inc ($110k).
Does The Irving & Marjorie F Cowan Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Irving & Marjorie F Cowan Family Foundation Inc 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 Irving & Marjorie F Cowan Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Jewish Community of Broward County Inc, Community Foundation of Broward Inc, The Miami Foundation Inc.
Where is The Irving & Marjorie F Cowan Family Foundation Inc based?
The Irving & Marjorie F Cowan Family Foundation Inc is based in FL.

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 47 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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