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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 FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$55kHealth$25kArts & Culture$23kCrime & Legal$10kHuman Services$6kFood & Nutrition$5kYouth Development$2kPhilanthropy$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,100
Median grant
6
States reached
$515k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MISSIONS TO NORTH AMERICA$9,300
HAMACHER PROSTATE CANCER RESEARCH FUNDWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MED$7,000
PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN CHURCH$3,100
BIBLE PROJECT$3,100
GRACE TO YOU$3,100
EDWARDSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL SWIMMING & DIVING BOOSTER CLUB$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
METRO EAST HUMANE SOCIETY$300
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%CARELINK FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 7%THE GLEN-ED PANTRY: $5k → 12%CARE LINK FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
OR
CA
CO
MO
VA
NC
SC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$74k · 9 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
11

Total granted

$74k
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+18%

Still filing today

33%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionHuman ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsHealthPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MT
    MISSIONS TO NORTH AMERICA
    2× · 2024–2025 · $18k
  • HP
    HAMACHER PROSTATE CANCER RESEARCH FUNDWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MED
    2× · 2024–2025 · $14k
  • GT
    GRACE TO YOU
    4× · 2020–2025 · $12k

Funded once

  • AC
    Atchison County Memorial Building Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $21k · revenue -11% · 44% of their budget
  • HP
    HAMACHER PROSTATE CANCER RESEARCH FUND WASHINGTON UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
    one grant, 2023 · $8k
  • CE
    CHRISTIANITY EXPLORED USAgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +52%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Gobuildlove Inc

go.build.love. exists to provide individuals in underdeveloped countries with clean water while sharing the love and message of Jesus Christ.

Housing & Shelter
2
Grace Evangelistic Ministries Inc

Grace evangelistic ministries, inc. conducts crusades and conferences in various countries to evangelize the lost and present them with an accurate interpretation of the gospel. for those who decide to believe, we help them form bible…

Religion
3
Gospel Fund Inc

Gospel Fund helps fuel healthy churches in hard places around the world.

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4
Explore God Network
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5
Africa Equip Ministry International Inc

Equip Gods people for works of service

Religion
6
Asia Harvest Inc

To help spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ by providing resources and financial support to projects throughout Asia

International
7
Child Evangelism Fellowship of West Texas

CEF is a Bible-centered worldwide organization composed of born-again believers whose purpose is to evangelize boys and girls with the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and to establish (disciple) them in the Word of God and in a local…

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8
The Filter Project

The Filter Project is a parachurch ministry whose mission is to pour Gods love into under-resourced communities through the gift of safe, filtered, drinking water in Kenya and plan to serve into additional countries in the future.

International
9
Evangelical Mission Ministries Inc

With god's help, to reach spanish-speaking people throughout the world with the good news of salvation through the lord jesus christ and to disciple them for christian ministry.

Religion
10
King Ministries International

To spread the Gospel of Jesus the Christ

Religion
11
Next Generation for Christ Inc

Ministry coaching and training--provided coaching and training in ministry, mission, and evangelism for churches,church leaders and christian non-profits christian video production--filmed and produced christian bible series for use by…

Human Services
12
Eternal Hope

To provide an ongoing, sustainable revenue source to the most vulnerable demographic in Uganda, while sharing the gospel and eternal hope found in Jesus Christ.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christianity Explored Usa; the most unlike its peers is Carelink Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MISSIONS TO NORTH AMERICA: $18,300 · OtherMISSIONS TO NORTH AMERICAHAMACHER PROSTATE CANCER RESEARCH FUNDWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MED: $14,000 · OtherHAMACHER PROSTATE CANCER RESEARCH FUNDWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF…GRACE TO YOU: $11,793 · OtherGRACE TO YOUPRISON FELLOWSHIP: $9,600 · OtherPRISON FELLOWSHIPHAMACHER PROSTATE CANCER RESEARCH FUND WASHINGTON UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $8,000 · OtherHAMACHER PROSTATE CANCER RESEARCH FUND WASHINGTON UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDI…PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $6,100 · OtherPROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN CHURCHHEALING HOUSE INC KANSAS CITY: $3,000 · OtherGRACE BAPTIST CHURCH: $2,692 · Other+4 more: $5,000 · Other+4 moreAtchison County Memorial Building Foundation: $20,700 · Arts & CultureAtchison County Me…BIBLEPROJECT: $6,100 · ReligionBIBLEPROJE…CHRISTIANITY EXPLORED USA: $6,078 · ReligionCHRISTIANI…THE GLEN-ED PANTRY: $5,000 · Human ServicesCARELINK FOUNDATION INC: $4,600 · Human ServicesIF NOT FOR GRACE MINISTRIES: $2,693 · HealthBOYS GROW CORP: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $1,600 · PhilanthropyMETRO EAST HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,300 · Animals
Other$78,485Arts & Culture$20,700Religion$12,178Human Services$9,600Health$2,693Youth Development$2,000Philanthropy$1,600Animals$1,300

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAtchison County Memorial Building Foundation: $20,700 over 1y, 44% of budgetBIBLEPROJECT: $6,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIANITY EXPLORED USA: $6,078 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE GLEN-ED PANTRY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCARELINK FOUNDATION INC: $4,600 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetBOYS GROW CORP: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $1,600 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMETRO EAST HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Atchison County Memorial Building Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BIBLEPROJECT ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIANITY EXPLORED USA ↗
  • Who funds THE GLEN-ED PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds CARELINK FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds IF NOT FOR GRACE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds BOYS GROW CORP ↗
  • Who funds VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds METRO EAST HUMANE SOCIETY ↗

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Cox Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cox Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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