How much does Carol W and G William Cotts Foundation give?

Carol W and G William Cotts Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $12,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Carol W and G William Cotts Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (49%), Health (17%), Education (16%).

Who are Carol W and G William Cotts Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Community Presbyterian Church ($49k), North Park University ($9k), Williams Syndrome Association Inc ($3k).

Does Carol W and G William Cotts Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Carol W and G William Cotts Foundation 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 Carol W and G William Cotts Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Blue Mountain Community Foundation, American Endowment Foundation, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.

Where is Carol W and G William Cotts Foundation based?

Carol W and G William Cotts Foundation is based in IL.

Carol W and G William Cotts Foundation

Carol W and G William Cotts Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Carol W and G William Cotts 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.

$13k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$5k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$50kHealth$18kEducation$16kHuman Services$3kEnvironment$3kAnimals$3kArts & Culture$2kCivil Rights$2kOther$0

02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$600

Median grant

States reached

$210k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
COMMUNITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH	$5,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS	$1,000
INTERNATIONAL SAMARITAN	$1,000
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY FEINBERG SCHOOL OF MEDICINE	$1,000
NORTH PARK UNIVERSITY	$1,000
WILLIAMS SYNDROME ASSOCATION	$1,000
KING BRUWAERT HOUSE	$600
PLANNED PARENTHOOD	$500
WFMT	$300
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF EASTERN(GREATER) WASHINGTON & NORTHERN IDAHO	$300
FRIENDS OF THE WALLA WALLA PUBLIC LIBRARY	$200
BLUE MOUNTAIN HUMANE SOCIETY	$200
WALLA WALLA ALLIANCE FOR THE HOMELESS	$200
BLUE MOUNTAIN HEART TO HEART	$200

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 20% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$93k · 20 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$93k

$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%

+51%

Still filing today

55%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsHuman ServicesEnvironmentHealthInternationalEducationOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

NP
NORTH PARK UNIVERSITY
9× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +12%
WS
WILLIAMS SYNDROME ASSOCIATION INC
4× · 2018–2025 · $3k · revenue +17%
Northwestern University
3× · 2023–2025 · $3k · revenue +26%

Funded once

RI
REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES
one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue -30%
FF
FELLOWSHIP FOR THE FUTURE FOR WOMEN
one grant, 2019 · $1k
AC
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY
one grant, 2017 · $500

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.

04Its field

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.

Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports

Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals

The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals

Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health

American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit

Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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Washington Humane Society

The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…

Animals

National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

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Food & Water Watch

Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…

Food & Nutrition

Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment

National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is King-Bruwaert House; the most unlike its peers is Walla Walla Alliance for the Homeless. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 28 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

17/17

Grantees still filing

14/17

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$74,800Education$9,000Health$6,400Recreation & Sports$3,000Human Services$3,000Animals$2,800International$2,000

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.

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.

Blue Mountain Community FoundationWA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Blue Mountain Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Carol W and G William Cotts Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carol W and G William Cotts Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home