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Cozart Foundation Inc

Raleigh, NC · EIN 56-6044443. Reported 77 grants totalling $395,000 to 17 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$395,000granted, 2021-2025
17recipients, as named on its returns
100%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,938,596assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Cozart Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $5,000; the smallest was $3,000 and the largest $10,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
7 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
68 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
2 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Step Up MinistryRaleigh, NC$31,000552025
Alliance Medical MinistryRaleigh, NC$26,000552025
Communities in Schools of Wake CountyRaleigh, NC$26,000552025
Danny & Rons RescueCamden, SC$26,000552025
Edenton Street United Methodist ChurchRaleigh, NC$26,000552025
Family Promise of Wake CountyRaleigh, NC$26,000552025
Food Bank of Centraleastern NcRaleigh, NC$26,000552025
Haven HouseRaleigh, NC$26,000552025
Helping Hand MissionRaleigh, NC$26,000552025
Tammy Lynn CenterRaleigh, NC$26,000552025
Triangle Family ServicesRaleigh, NC$26,000552025
Urban Ministries of Wake CountyRaleigh, NC$26,000552025
YMCA of the TriangleRaleigh, NC$26,000552025
Wake ReliefRaleigh, NC$22,000552025
Shepherds Table Soup KitchenRaleigh, NC$17,000552025
Michael J Fox FoundationHagerstown, MD$10,000112025
Nc Aquarium SocietyRaleigh, NC$3,000112025

15 of 17 (88%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 100%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 42 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Human Services
20 grants
Health Care
5 grants
Housing & Shelter
5 grants
Education
5 grants
Food & Nutrition
5 grants
Animal Welfare
1 grant
Medical Research
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202115$73,000$5,000
202215$73,000$5,000
202315$73,000$5,000
202415$85,000$6,000
202517$91,000$5,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

91% of its giving went to organizations in North Carolina. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

North Carolina
$359K
South Carolina
$26K
Maryland
$10K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund11 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc9 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc9 shared recipientsTriangle Community Foundation Inc8 shared recipientsNatl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc8 shared recipientsDuke Energy Foundation8 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in North Carolina.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Cozart Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 1015 Marlowe Road, Raleigh, NC, 27609. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 56-6044443 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded.

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