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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.

$902k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$210k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

International$2.7MEducation$453kEnvironment$316kHealth$185kCommunity Improvement$175kHousing & Shelter$152kReligion$105kYouth Development$82kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $118k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $778k
$50,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$547k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$210,000
OneGoal$75,000
UN FOUNDATION - NOTHING BUT NETS$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Peace House Inc: $500 → 5%New Story Inc: $60k → 13%Womens Wilderness Institute: $15k → 12%NEW YORK CITY RELIEF: $2k → 10%ONE WARM COAT: $20k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

VT
WA
ID
IL
NY
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MD
AZ
DC
HI
GA
FL

Beyond the US: 11% of all-years giving ($470k)

4 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Colombia$357k · 6 grants
Chile$105k · 2 grants
China$5k · 1 grant
Taiwan$3k · 1 grant
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
$4.1M · 25 repeat orgs$230k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
25

Total granted

$4.1M
$175k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+30%

Still filing today

76%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalEnvironmentHuman ServicesCivil RightsPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $981k · revenue +67%
  • MC
    Mercy Corps
    6× · 2019–2024 · $513k · revenue +21%
  • MF
    MONA FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $214k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • NS
    NEW STORY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue +72%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • WW
    WOMEN'S WILDERNESS INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -12%
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.

1
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment
2
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
3
World Resources Institute

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…

International
4
Work on Climate

Supporting industry transformation towards climate-positive and make green careers transitions and driving the adoption of green workforce development practices broadly.

Environment
5
Eden Peopleplanet

To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.

International
6
Global Forest Generation

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,…

Environment
7
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
8
World Coffee Research

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,…

International
9
Climate Breakthrough Inc

To launch breakthrough climate mitigation efforts by identifying, supporting, and unleashing innovative leaders with transformative strategies.

Human Services
10
Common Future

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…

Community Improvement
11
International Rivers Network

International Rivers protects rivers and defends the rights of communities that depend on them.

Environment
12
Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stonewall Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
28/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

International Rescue Committee INC: $980,766 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INCMercy Corps: $512,954 · InternationalMercy CorpsGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $181,200 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INCThe Chain Collaborative: $160,000 · InternationalThe Chain CollaborativeALIADOS USA: $111,443 · InternationalALIADOS USACOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $76,468 · International+2 more: $54,823 · InternationalUN FOUNDATION - NOTHING BUT NETS: $398,348 · OtherUN FOUNDATION - NOTHING BUT NE…FUNDACION ESCUELA NUEVA: $357,098 · OtherFUNDACION ESCUELA NUEVAPontificia Universidad Catolica de: $105,000 · OtherPontificia Universidad Catolic…FLEXPORTORG: $43,423 · OtherTRUE COLORS UNITED INC: $66,433 · OtherTRUE COLORS UNITED INC+22 more: $168,992 · Other+22 moreMONA FOUNDATION: $213,596 · PhilanthropyMONA FOUNDA…TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $135,000 · PhilanthropyTIPPING POI…WATER FIRST INTERNATIONAL: $75,000 · PhilanthropyWATER FIRST…+3 more: $21,309 · PhilanthropyBONNEVILLE ENVIRONMENTAL FOUNDATION: $140,853 · Environment1 FOR THE PLANET INC: $30,200 · EnvironmentClimate Neutral: $22,705 · EnvironmentTHE FOREST PARK CONSERVANCY: $10,000 · Environment+2 more: $700 · EnvironmentRange Of Motion Project: $185,000 · HealthONEGOAL: $85,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HOLLYWOOD INC: $65,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEW STORY INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesONE WARM COAT: $20,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S WILDERNESS INSTITUTE: $15,000 · Human Services+2 more: $2,500 · Human Services
International$2,077,654Other$1,139,294Philanthropy$444,905Environment$204,458Health$185,000Youth Development$151,000Human Services$97,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $980,766 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps: $512,954 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMONA FOUNDATION: $213,596 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetRange Of Motion Project: $185,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $181,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Chain Collaborative: $160,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetBONNEVILLE ENVIRONMENTAL FOUNDATION: $140,853 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $135,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetALIADOS USA: $111,443 over 2y, 25% of budgetONEGOAL: $85,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $76,468 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWATER FIRST INTERNATIONAL: $75,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetTRUE COLORS UNITED INC: $66,433 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HOLLYWOOD INC: $65,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetNEW STORY INC: $60,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTRANSFAIR USA: $54,623 over 4y, 0.1% of budget1 FOR THE PLANET INC: $30,200 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetClimate Neutral: $22,705 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetONE WARM COAT: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBIG CITY MOUNTAINEERS: $15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWOMEN'S WILDERNESS INSTITUTE: $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetRefugee Artisan Initative: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $10,309 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRYSALIS CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOISE BICYCLE PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE FOREST PARK CONSERVANCY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBorn Free USA united with API: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCITY RELIEF INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISKASHITAA REFUGEE NETWORK: $1,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSTONEWALL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEAD COUNT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DREAM PROGRAM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOMPRAKASH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPSEPHOS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPeace House Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrave Trails: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUSTAINABLE COASTLINES HAWAI'I: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME PROJECT: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

The Starbucks Foundat…Rei Cooperative Actio…The Pfizer Foundation…The Ford FoundationGofundmeorgSimple Generosity Fou…Clif Family FoundationThe Rockefeller Found…PatagoniaorgMarin Community Found…American Express Foun…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
The Starbucks FoundationWA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Cotopaxi Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cotopaxi Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 100%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 56 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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