· Private foundation
Cotten Charitable Trust
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 FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ORLANDO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | $45,787 |
| FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOG | $36,630 |
| HOOD COLLEGE OF FREDERICK MD | $36,630 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $27,472 |
| ORLANDO MUSEUM OF ART INC | $27,472 |
| WINTER PARK LIBRARY ASSOCIATIO | $27,472 |
| SALVATION ARMY A GEORGIA CORPO | $27,472 |
| COMMUNITY COMMUNICATIONS INC | $27,472 |
| PET ALLIANCE OF GREATER ORLAND | $27,472 |
| THE ORLANDO UNION RESCUE MISSI | $27,472 |
| WINTER PARK DAY NURSERY INC | $27,472 |
| COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS OF | $18,315 |
| FOOD FOR THE POOR INC | $18,315 |
| HOSPICE OF THE COMFORTER INC D | $18,315 |
| ASPIRE HEALTH PARTNERS FOUNDAT | $18,315 |
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 (FY22–24, $89k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
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
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
- OPORLANDO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC3× · 2022–2024 · $93k · revenue +28%
- HCHOOD COLLEGE3× · 2022–2024 · $75k · revenue +2%
- FIFLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC3× · 2022–2024 · $75k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- WPWILLIAM P DUVAL CHAPTER NSDARone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
Florida college, as a private, independent liberal arts college, provides a comprehensive undergraduate experience designed to develop students spiritually, mentally, physically, and socially; to integrate into the students' lives the…
Community first credit union of florida's mission is to provide the highest in quality financial solutions for every stage of life.
To support its members and create an active, caring community by providing a continuum of quality lifestyle & healthcare programs and outstanding enrichment opportunities in conjunction with the university of florida.
The tampa bay partnership is a privately funded, ceo-driven regional advocacy organization, committed to creating a unified, competitive and prosperous tampa bay.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
To elevate the profession that transforms lives through the power of financial planning.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Income from credit union membership and from investement of member funds provide the foundation from which the organization can function and provide service to its restricted membership.
Curating the world for all children to explore
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The organization provides peer reviewed scientific research and education in the field of biological dentistry.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is William Duval Chapter Inc Nsdar. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 17 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 ORLANDO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds HOOD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds WINTER PARK LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PET ALLIANCE OF GREATER ORLANDO INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds ORLANDO MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds WINTER PARK DAY NURSERY INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds AdventHealth Home Health and Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM DUVAL CHAPTER INC NSDAR ↗
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: Central Florida Foundation · James T and Diana P Barnes Foundation Inc · The Warren and Augusta Hume Foundation Inc · Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation · Magruder Chesley G Fdn Im · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Cotten Charitable Trust 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Florida Institute of Technology Inc — 5% of income from government
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- Orlando Museum of Art Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando Inc — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% 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.