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Cote Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$32k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Youth Development$138kHousing & Shelter$46kHuman Services$35kReligion$18kEnvironment$17kHealth$15kFood & Nutrition$6kRecreation & Sports$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$567k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOUTH FRONTIERS$11,000
TIMBER BAYYOUTH INVESTMENT$6,500
GABRIELS ANGELS$5,000
BRIDGES OF HOPE$5,000
FRIENDS OF SAGUARO NATIONAL PARK$3,000
LAKES AREA FOOD SHELF$1,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $114k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GABRIELS ANGELS: $5k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $11k → 11%LAKES AREA FOOD SHELF: $1k → 14%GABRIELS ANGELS INC: $5k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $10k → 11%GABRIELS ANGELS: $5k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $10k → 11%GABRIELS ANGELS: $5k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $10k → 11%GABRIELS ANGELS: $5k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $10k → 11%GABRIELS ANGELS: $5k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $10k → 11%GABRIELS ANGELS: $5k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $10k → 11%YOUTH INVESTMENT FOUNDATION: $7k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$270k · 8 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
2

Total granted

$270k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+29%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEnvironmentHealthAnimalsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • GA
    GABRIELS ANGELS INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +4%
  • FO
    Friends of Saguaro National Park
    7× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +134%
  • BO
    BRIDGES OF HOPE
    3× · 2021–2024 · $15k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • YI
    YOUTH INVESTMENT FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $7k · revenue +29%
  • TW
    Tucson Wildlife Center Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +6%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Tucson Audubon Society

Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.

Animals
2
Conservation Farms & Ranches

Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.

Housing & Shelter
3
Cuenca Los Ojos

Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.

Environment
4
Landmark Conservancy Inc

Landmark conservancy is a nationally accredited, nonprofit conservation organization serving 20 counties across northwest wisconsin. their mission is to conserve wisconsin's natural legacy for everyone...forever.

Environment
5
Foundation for Financial Planning Inc

Our mission is to help people in need improve their financial lives by expanding access to pro bono financial planning.

Human Services
6
Fauna & Flora International Usa Inc

Our mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take into account human needs.

Philanthropy
7
Youth Homes

The mission of youth homes is to help every youth feel safe, have a sense of belonging, and find a place to call home.

Human Services
8
Waterstep Inc

Waterstep focuses on providing safe water, sanitation, and hygiene solutions to communities in need around the world. its mission is rooted in the belief that safe water is a basic human right and a critical foundation for health,…

Youth Development
9
Minnesota Forest Industries Inc

To inform and educate the public about forest industries practices in minnesota.

10
Liberty Wildlife Inc

Liberty Wildlife nurtures the nature of Arizona by providing quality wildlife rehabilitation, environmental education and conservation consultation services for the community.

11
Naples Zoo Inc

Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…

Animals
12
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridges of Hope and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Saguaro National Park. 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

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 10 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

KINSHIP PARTNERS INC — $60,000 · OtherKINSHIP PARTNERS INCTIMBER BAYYOUTH INVESTMENT — $45,500 · OtherTIMBER BAYYOUTH INVESTMENTLUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE CROSS — $17,700 · OtherLUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE CROSSYOUTH FRONTIERS INC — $71,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH FRONTIERS INCGABRIELS ANGELS INC — $35,000 · Human ServicesGABRIELS ANGELS INCYOUTH INVESTMENT FOUNDATION — $6,500 · Human ServicesYOUTH INVESTMENT FOUNDATIONLAKES AREA FOOD SHELF — $5,827 · Human ServicesFriends of Saguaro National Park — $19,500 · EnvironmentBRIDGES OF HOPE — $15,000 · HealthTucson Wildlife Center Inc — $2,000 · Animals
Other$123,200Human Services$118,327Environment$19,500Health$15,000Animals$2,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetYOUTH FRONTIERS INC — $71,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetKINSHIP PARTNERS INC — $60,000 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetGABRIELS ANGELS INC — $35,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetFriends of Saguaro National Park — $19,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetBRIDGES OF HOPE — $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTH INVESTMENT FOUNDATION — $6,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLAKES AREA FOOD SHELF — $5,827 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTucson Wildlife Center Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds YOUTH FRONTIERS INC
  • Who funds KINSHIP PARTNERS INC
  • Who funds GABRIELS ANGELS INC
  • Who funds Friends of Saguaro National Park
  • Who funds BRIDGES OF HOPE
  • Who funds YOUTH INVESTMENT FOUNDATION
  • Who funds LAKES AREA FOOD SHELF
  • Who funds Tucson Wildlife Center Inc

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

CommunitygivingMN15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communitygiving · The Minneapolis Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Cote Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Cote Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Cote Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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