· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $161k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AVENTURA TURNBERRY JEWISH CENTER | $40,000 |
| DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| MT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $20,500 |
| MEMORIAL FOUNDATION HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
| EXPERIENCE AVIATION INC | $15,000 |
| THE JERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| SYLVESTER COMPREHENSIVE CANCER FUND | $10,000 |
| OMNI PEACE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH EL | $5,000 |
| TULANE UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF BROWARD COUNTY | $2,500 |
| TEMPLE EMANU-EL | $1,000 |
| BOCA RIO FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
35 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 5 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MSMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $240k · revenue +44%
- JDJOE DIMAGGIO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2022 · $80k · revenue +27%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $70k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN ADOMone grant, 2024 · $15k
- SFSOUTH FLORIDA AFTER-SCHOOL ALL STARS INCone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +9%
- HCHOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $3k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To inspire hope and promote lifelong health by providing the best care to every child.
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 47 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
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 MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOE DIMAGGIO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds WOMEN OF TOMORROW MENTOR AND SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds EXPERIENCE AVIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY EQUINE HUMANE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PINE CREST PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA AFTER-SCHOOL ALL STARS INC ↗
- Who funds OMNIPEACE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Adoption and Foster Care Options Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Irving & Marjorie F Cowan Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Irving & Marjorie F Cowan Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
- Pine Crest Preparatory School Inc: 0% of income from government
- South Florida Pbs Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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