Utah · Private foundation
Cotopaxi Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $902k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2024
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $210,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 25
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $547k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations Cotopaxi Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $327k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 17 | $902k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $1.4M | 40% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $947k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $455k | 59% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $439k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $153k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| International Rescue Committee INC | $980,766 | 6 | 0% |
| Mercy Corps | $512,954 | 6 | 0% |
| Mona Foundation | $213,596 | 4 | 2% |
| Range Of Motion Project | $185,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Globalgiving Foundation Inc | $181,200 | 2 | 0% |
| The Chain Collaborative | $160,000 | 4 | 15% |
| Bonneville Environmental Foundation | $140,853 | 2 | 0% |
| Tipping Point Community | $135,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Aliados USA | $111,443 | 2 | 25% |
| Onegoal | $85,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($981k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Cotopaxi Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 38 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: The Starbucks Foundation · Rei Cooperative Action Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Gofundmeorg · Simple Generosity Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · The Rockefeller Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Marin Community Foundation · American Express Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
How this is measured
About Cotopaxi Foundation
- How much does Cotopaxi Foundation give?
- Cotopaxi Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $902,042 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 25 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Cotopaxi Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (62%), Education (11%), Environment (7%).
- Who are Cotopaxi Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: International Rescue Committee INC ($981k), Mercy Corps ($513k), Mona Foundation ($214k).
- Does Cotopaxi Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cotopaxi 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 Cotopaxi Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Starbucks Foundation, Rei Cooperative Action Fund, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.
- Where is Cotopaxi Foundation based?
- Cotopaxi Foundation is based in UT.
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