· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k36 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ASSOCIATION OF WEST MARIN | $30,120 |
| WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE | $20,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC | $5,000 |
| LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES | $5,000 |
| SUSTAINABLE CONSERVATION | $5,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| GRACE CATHEDRAL | $3,500 |
| PARTNERSHIP FOR A HEALTHIER AMERICA | $3,000 |
| CALIFORNIA TROUT INC | $3,000 |
| WORLD NEIGHBORS INC | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE | $2,000 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $2,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
67 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
EARTHJUSTICE7× · 2017–2023 · $437k · revenue +82%- EIENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY9× · 2017–2025 · $303k · revenue +65%
- SFSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION6× · 2017–2023 · $303k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- UTU T HEALTHone grant, 2017 · $5k
COMMUNITY INITIATIVESgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +50%- MDM D ANDERSON SERVICES CORPORATIONone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +10%
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 union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Francisco Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Berkeley Repertory Theatre. 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 41 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
70 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. 70 of the 90 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 EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Sustainable Conservation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN RIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ASSOCIATION OF WEST MARIN ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS ↗
- Who funds Point Reyes National Seashore Association ↗
- Who funds MARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc ↗
- Who funds MARIN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds AMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds Larkin Street Youth Services ↗
- Who funds GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds MARET SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA TROUT INC ↗
- Who funds National Center for Science Education ↗
- Who funds POMONA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Physicians Committee for Responsible Med ↗
- Who funds THE WEST MARIN FUND ↗
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: 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
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 Cox Family Fund 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- World Neighbors Inc — 46% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Oxfam-America 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.