Minnesota · Private foundation
Cox Family Fund
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.
- $173k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 40
- Grants FY2025
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 42%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 49
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 42% of the organizations Cox Family Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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 | 38 | $158k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 38 | $129k | 42% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $170k | 7% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $328k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $348k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $443k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 49 | $306k | 6% |
| FY2018 | 46 | $338k | 2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earthjustice | $437,317 | 7 | 0% |
| Environmental Investigation Agency | $303,399 | 9 | 1% |
| San Francisco Ballet Association | $302,676 | 6 | 0% |
| San Francisco Symphony | $170,895 | 8 | 0% |
| World Resources Institute | $157,224 | 9 | 0% |
| Berkeley Repertory Theatre | $141,741 | 6 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $131,669 | 6 | 0% |
| Sustainable Conservation | $80,150 | 9 | 0% |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of California | $42,875 | 8 | n/a |
Show all 67 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($244k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cox Family Fund 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.
Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Patty and Jack Wright Foundation · The Springcreek Foundation · Tides Foundation · United Way Worldwide · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Sonoma County Community Foundation
How this is measured
About Cox Family Fund
- How much does Cox Family Fund give?
- Cox Family Fund reported 40 grants totaling $173,252 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 49 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Cox Family Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (41%), Arts & Culture (23%), Education (13%).
- Who are Cox Family Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Earthjustice ($437k), Environmental Investigation Agency ($303k), San Francisco Ballet Association ($303k).
- Does Cox Family Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cox Family Fund 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 Family Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is Cox Family Fund based?
- Cox Family Fund is based in MN.
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