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.

Cox Family Fund

Cox Family Fund at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$50k

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, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$1.2MArts & Culture$677kEducation$377kHealth$293kPhilanthropy$97kCivil Rights$66kReligion$43kInternational$42kOther$0

02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k36 grants · $58k
$10k–50k3 grants · $65k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION	$5,000
SUSTAINABLE CONSERVATION	$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC	$5,000
LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES	$5,000
GRACE CATHEDRAL	$3,500
CALIFORNIA TROUT INC	$3,000
WORLD NEIGHBORS INC	$3,000
PARTNERSHIP FOR A HEALTHIER AMERICA	$3,000
Individual grant recipient	$2,000
GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE	$2,000
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN	$2,000

02The need

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.5M · 67 repeat orgs$76k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.5M

$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

+10%

Still filing today

78%

71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHealthEducationInternationalEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther

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

EARTHJUSTICE
7× · 2017–2023 · $437k · revenue +82%
EI
ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY
9× · 2017–2025 · $303k · revenue +65%
SF
SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION
6× · 2017–2023 · $303k · revenue +37%

Funded once

UT
U T HEALTH
one grant, 2017 · $5k
COMMUNITY INITIATIVESgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +50%
MD
M D ANDERSON SERVICES CORPORATION
one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +10%

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.

The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education

American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech

United States Naval Institute

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.

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Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Association of California School Administrators

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.

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The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education

The Water Research Foundation

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…

Environment

American Gas Association

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…

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Ucla Foundation

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…

Education

Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

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…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Francisco Foundation; 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.

04the grantee network

70 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

70/70

Grantees still filing

55/70

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$674,676Environment$606,566International$489,283Other$484,054Education$307,436Health$253,238Philanthropy$64,500

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

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.

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.

Marin Community FoundationCA26.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Family Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cox Family Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home