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Cotsen Foundation for the Art of Teaching
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 94% of COTSEN FOUNDATION FOR THE ART OF TEACHING’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $238k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $850k
- $250k+12 grants · $7.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $1,647,898 |
| WALNUT VALLEY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $739,790 |
| LONG BEACH UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $690,999 |
| NORWALK-LA MIRADA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $661,422 |
| CENTRALIA SCHOOL DISTRICT | $635,316 |
| FULLERTON SCHOOL DISTRICT | $532,192 |
| FOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $500,497 |
| POMONA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $461,178 |
| BUENA PARK SCHOOL DISTRICT | $446,580 |
| SANTA MONICA-MALIBU UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $390,146 |
| WISEBURN UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $312,804 |
| WHITTIER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $299,475 |
| EAST WHITTIER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $223,870 |
| LARCHMONT CHARTER SCHOOL | $208,607 |
| TUSTIN UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $204,315 |
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 human-services grants (FY19–19, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
82 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 45 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $670k 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
- LMLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY2× · 2017–2018 · $933k · revenue +68%
- LSLARCHMONT SCHOOLS2× · 2024–2025 · $221k · revenue +0%
- LALOS ANGELES EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP5× · 2017–2021 · $165k · revenue +161%
Funded once
- NMNORWALK-LA MIRADA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTone grant, 2024 · $753k
- LALOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT-SFPone grant, 2017 · $368k
- SLSAN LORENZO VALLEY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTone grant, 2017 · $67k
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.
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
See schedule othe mission of occidental college is to provide a gifted and diverse group of students with a total educational experience of the highest quality - one that prepares them for leadership in an increasingly complex,…
At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…
Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…
Arcadia university's pioneering, global, integrated, liberal arts, and professional learning experience cultivates leaders who are intellectually fearless and uniquely prepared for life and work. our highly regarded, values-based learning…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alder Graduate School of Education and the most unlike its peers is John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
62 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 62 of the 150 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 LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE ACME NETWORK ↗
- Who funds LARCHMONT SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds THE WENDE MUSEUM OF THE COLD WAR INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ROME ↗
- Who funds LAUREL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL-AMERICA ACADEMIC EXCHANGE ↗
- Who funds Society for American Archaeology ↗
- Who funds THE GO PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds DANCE AND DIALOGUE ↗
- Who funds HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY ↗
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: California Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The J Paul Getty Trust · Weingart Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Annenberg Foundation · Perenchio Foundation · Joseph Drown Foundation · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert 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 Cotsen Foundation for the Art of Teaching 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.
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences — 3% of income from government
- Reed Institute — 1% 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.
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