Massachusetts · Private foundation
Cotsidas Charitable Trust
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.
- $32k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 31
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $232k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Cotsidas Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $32k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $19k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $16k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $17k | 7% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $23k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $19k | 24% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $22k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $21k | 10% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pacific Legal Foundation | $14,700 | 9 | 0% |
| Sts Constantine & Helen Greek Orthodox Church | $13,620 | 9 | n/a |
| Eisenhower Medical Center | $10,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Scripps Health | $9,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Turning Point USA Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Rady Children's Hospital Foundation San Diego | $2,600 | 8 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $2,100 | 5 | 0% |
| Augies Quest to Cure ALS Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 25 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($110k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cotsidas Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
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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.
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How this is measured
About Cotsidas Charitable Trust
- How much does Cotsidas Charitable Trust give?
- Cotsidas Charitable Trust reported 21 grants totaling $31,900 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Cotsidas Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (18%), Health (17%), Religion (12%).
- Who are Cotsidas Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Pacific Legal Foundation ($15k), Sts Constantine & Helen Greek Orthodox Church ($14k), Eisenhower Medical Center ($10k).
- Does Cotsidas Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cotsidas Charitable Trust 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 Cotsidas Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Cotsidas Charitable Trust based?
- Cotsidas Charitable Trust is based in MA.
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