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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $118k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $778k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $210,000 |
| UN FOUNDATION - NOTHING BUT NETS | $75,000 |
| OneGoal | $75,000 |
| MERCY CORPS | $70,000 |
| FUNDACION ESCUELA NUEVA | $70,000 |
| MONA FOUNDATION | $61,498 |
| Aliados USA | $61,443 |
| Range of Motion Project | $55,000 |
| WATER FIRST INTERNATIONAL | $50,000 |
| The Chain Collaborative | $50,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| CARE | $26,468 |
| Globalgiving Foundation Inc | $21,200 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HOLLYWOOD | $20,000 |
| ONE WARM COAT | $20,000 |
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.
Your US giving — 89% of grant dollars ($3.8M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 11% that went abroad ($470k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $98k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
Beyond the US — 11% of all-years giving ($470k)
4 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
25 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INC6× · 2019–2024 · $981k · revenue +67%
- MCMercy Corps6× · 2019–2024 · $513k · revenue +21%
- MFMONA FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $214k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- NSNEW STORY INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue +72%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $20k
- WWWOMEN'S WILDERNESS INSTITUTEone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -12%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
Supporting industry transformation towards climate-positive and make green careers transitions and driving the adoption of green workforce development practices broadly.
To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.
Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
World coffee research unites the global coffee industry to drive science-based agricultural solutions to urgently secure a diverse and sustainable supply of quality coffee today and for generations to come. our mission is to grow, protect,…
To launch breakthrough climate mitigation efforts by identifying, supporting, and unleashing innovative leaders with transformative strategies.
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
International Rivers protects rivers and defends the rights of communities that depend on them.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stonewall Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Denver Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
42 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 56 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds MONA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Range Of Motion Project ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Chain Collaborative ↗
- Who funds BONNEVILLE ENVIRONMENTAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds ALIADOS USA ↗
- Who funds ONEGOAL ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds WATER FIRST INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds TRUE COLORS UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HOLLYWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds NEW STORY INC ↗
- Who funds TRANSFAIR USA ↗
- Who funds 1 FOR THE PLANET INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Climate Neutral ↗
- Who funds ONE WARM COAT ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S WILDERNESS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BIG CITY MOUNTAINEERS ↗
- Who funds Refugee Artisan Initative ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds BOISE BICYCLE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CHRYSALIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOREST PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Born Free USA united with API ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER 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.
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
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 Cotopaxi 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.
- Bonneville Environmental Foundation — 100% of income from government
- The Dream Program Inc — 100% of income from government
- Chrysalis Center Inc — 93% of income from government
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
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.