Illinois · Private foundation
Cox Charitable Foundation
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.
- $28k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 86%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,100
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $9,300
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 8
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $515k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 86% of the organizations Cox Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 89% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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 | 8 | $28k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $27k | 86% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $24k | 60% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $5k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $21k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $24k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atchison County Memorial Building Foundation | $20,700 | 1 | 44% |
| Grace to You | $11,793 | 4 | n/a |
| Bibleproject | $6,100 | 2 | 0% |
| Providence Christian Church | $6,100 | 2 | n/a |
| Christianity Explored USA | $6,078 | 1 | 2% |
| The Glen-Ed Pantry | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Carelink Foundation Inc | $4,600 | 2 | 3% |
| If Not for Grace Ministries | $2,693 | 1 | n/a |
| Grace Baptist Church | $2,692 | 1 | n/a |
| Boys Grow Corp | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 14 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atchison County Memorial Building Foundation | $20,700 | 1 | 44% |
| Grace to You | $11,793 | 4 | n/a |
| Bibleproject | $6,100 | 2 | 0% |
| Providence Christian Church | $6,100 | 2 | n/a |
| Christianity Explored USA | $6,078 | 1 | 2% |
| The Glen-Ed Pantry | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Carelink Foundation Inc | $4,600 | 2 | 3% |
| If Not for Grace Ministries | $2,693 | 1 | n/a |
| Grace Baptist Church | $2,692 | 1 | n/a |
| Boys Grow Corp | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc | $1,600 | 1 | 0% |
| Metro East Humane Society | $1,300 | 2 | 0% |
| Focus on the Family | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Edwardsville High School Swimming and Diving Booster Club | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($56k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Cox Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Cox Charitable Foundation
- How much does Cox Charitable Foundation give?
- Cox Charitable Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $27,900 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Cox Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (43%), Health (19%), Arts & Culture (18%).
- Who are Cox Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Atchison County Memorial Building Foundation ($21k), Grace to You ($12k), Bibleproject ($6k).
- Does Cox Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 86% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cox Charitable Foundation 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 Cox Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Cox Charitable Foundation based?
- Cox Charitable Foundation is based in IL.
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