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Private foundations don’t post open calls, so nobody can search them. We read IRS filings instead — 9.6 million grants from 174,053 foundations and grantmaking charities, searchable by what the money was actually for.
12 funders with a record of paying for “cowan”
Where the money went
Largest: $10,000 to COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES OF SOUTHER — william b cowan
Largest: $30,000 to COWAN COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP INC — community programming support
Largest: $30,000 to CARSON COWAN — maritime academy scholarship
Largest: $20,000 to CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION — grant for prostate cancer research, individual doctors, step fund, and the cowan family liver fund.
Largest: $90,000 to COWAN COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP — growing home convening 2024-25 + staff salaries and benefits
Save the Children FederationFairfield, CTCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $102,000 · through 2024Largest: $60,000 to COWAN COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP INC — livelihoods activity
Largest: $805,000 to BALL STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — endowed scholarship program; architecture & planning college project - cowan infrastructure planning
Foundation for Appalachian KentuckyHazard, KYCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $81,000 · through 2024Largest: $54,000 to Cowan Community Action Group Inc — to further the exempt purpose of the organization
Berea CollegeBerea, KYCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $98,238 · through 2023Largest: $42,235 to Cowan Community Action Group — support of organization working to improve general welfare within the appalachian region
East Texas Communities FoundationTyler, TXCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $242,677 · through 2023Largest: $173,177 to UT Tyler Cowan Center — arts. culture
Largest: $5,000 to COWAN COMMUNITY SCHOOLS — continuation of comprehensive counseling efforts
National Assn of State DepartmentsArlington, VACharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $55,239 · through 2024Largest: $41,484 to COWAN COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP — epa water quality subaward
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 2019–2025. These are grants already paid, a record of what an organization funds rather than an open call. Private foundations rarely accept unsolicited applications and the route in is usually a program officer; grantmaking charities and associations more often run real application cycles, so check their website. How this data is built, and its limits →