· Private foundation
Cottonwood Foundation Inc
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 FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE LOWER EAASTSIDE GIRLS CLUB | $10,100 |
| COVENANT HOUSE NEW YORK | $10,100 |
| SIXTH STREET COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,100 |
| WIDE RAINBOW | $8,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY20–23, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% 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.
4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- SSSIXTH STREET COMMUNITY CENTER INC2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +12%
- WRWide Rainbow Corporation2× · 2022–2023 · $16k · revenue -39%
- HCHOWLAND CHAMBER MUSIC CIRCLE INC2× · 2017–2020 · $9k · revenue +64%
Funded once
THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +75%- TLThe Lower Eastside Girls Club of NYone grant, 2022 · $10k
- CHCOVENANT HOUSEone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -39%
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.
The Harlem Art''s Foundation''s Mission Is To Showcase And Preserve Harlem''s Tradition Of Rich Culture And Community By Working With Our Local Partners To Strategically Shape The Physical And Social Opportunities Of Our Neighborhood…
The living city project, inc. is an educational and community service non-profit that offers city-based experiences for public high schoolers, college-age students, and adults to address urgent challenges and opportunities facing the city…
The Caribbean Equality Project is an NYC-based community organization that empowers, advocates for, and represents Afro and Indo-Caribbean LGBTQ+ immigrants in New York City.
Hot bread kitchen creates economic opportunity through culinary job skills training and placement, food entrepreneurship, and an ecosystem of support for individuals who face barriers to meaningful careers.
On this spot nyc: stories of pioneering women arists is a nonprofit 501(c) (3) organization committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. it focuses on women artists, a group that continues to be marginalized. on this spot is conceived as…
Habitatmap is a non-profit environmental health justice organization whose goal is to raise awareness about the impact the environment has on human health. our online mapping and social networking platforms are designed to maximize the…
The mission of el puente is to inspire and nurture leadership for peace and justice, working as a human rights institution in nyc and puerto rico with national and international impact. el puente creates community-led movements of self…
Prime produce limited (ppl) is organized to encourage and support other persons and exempt organizations, empowering future philanthropists through programs and projects.
Apex Art Curatorial Program is a resolutely noncommercial visual art exhibition space which provides curators and artists with a venue dedicated to ideas that are often too provocative or too small in scope for display elsewhere. Apex Art…
Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…
Takeroot justice provides legal, participatory research and policy support to strengthen the work of grassroots and community-based groups in new york city to dismantle racial, economic and social oppression.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fareground Community Kitchen Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jambo Tanzania 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 15 years old; the field is 18. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 7% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 47 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 SIXTH STREET COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Wide Rainbow Corporation ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds HOWLAND CHAMBER MUSIC CIRCLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SUPPERS PROGRAMS INC DBA EATING FOR YOUR HEALTH ↗
- Who funds HANDS ON HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds MAINE PRISONER ADVOCACY COALITION ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOR LIBERATION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds How Our Lives Link Altogether Inc ↗
- Who funds ONONDAGA EARTH CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds THE GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAREGROUND COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds HEALING FOR HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds A TINY HOME FOR GOOD INC ↗
- Who funds SAVING SPECIES INC ↗
- Who funds RESERVA THE YOUTH LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL PRAXIS INC ↗
- Who funds NANPA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JAMBO TANZANIA INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY ACADEMY HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING MEN PROGRAM 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: Central New York Community Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Cottonwood Foundation Inc 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.
- Hands On Hartford Inc — 20% 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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