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Cox Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
52
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$260k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Philanthropy$4.8MEnvironment$1.5MHealth$943kYouth Development$730kArts & Culture$236kEducation$186kRecreation & Sports$140kScience & Tech$98kOther$0
02FY2024 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k28 grants · $77k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $245k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $400k
  • $250k+3 grants · $780k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Charles Schwab Charitable Gift Fund$260,000
Charles Schwab Charitable Gift Fund$260,000
Charles Schwab Charitable Gift Fund$260,000
Everglades Foundation$130,000
Nantucket Land Council Inc$70,000
Nantucket Boys and Girls Club$50,000
Nantucket Cottage Hospital$50,000
Boys & Girls Club of Martin County (Hobe Sound)$50,000
Community Foundation for Nantucket$50,000
Hobe Sound Community Chest Inc$40,000
Hobe Sound Early Learning Center$40,000
Nantucket Historical Association$25,000
Sankaty Head Foundation$25,000
St Paul's Episcopal Church Nantucket MA$15,000
Jupiter Island Medical Center Foundation$10,000
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 (FY20–24, $130k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.

area typical 10%Hobe Sound Early Learning Center: $40k → 10%Hobe Sound Early Learning Center: $40k → 10%Hobe Sound Early Learning Center: $30k → 10%Hobe Sound Early Learning Center: $10k → 10%Past President's Fund Inc: $3k → 10%Past President's Fund Inc: $3k → 10%Past President's Fund Inc: $3k → 10%Past President's Fund Inc: $3k → 10%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.
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.3M · 49 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

49 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
4

Total granted

$8.3M
$49k

Still filing today

67%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHealthArts & CultureEducationScience & TechPhilanthropyOther
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

  • NC
    NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $725k · revenue +228%
  • NB
    NANTUCKET BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $400k · revenue +49%
  • THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $395k · revenue +226%

Funded once

  • MG
    Mass Golf2021 US Mid Amateur at Sankaty Head Golf
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • CF
    Conservative Fund Loxa-Lucie Headwaters FL
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k
  • NI
    Nantucket Island School of Design
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
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
Great Harbor Yacht Club Foundation Inc

The purpose of the corporation is to act as a not-for-profit organization with a primary mission of promoting the health of nantucket islands harbor and its marine ecosystem. the corporation will work with the nantucket department of…

Environment
2
Nantucket Arts Council Inc

Support and encourage a collaborative community of the visual, performing and literary arts through education, grants, scholarships and events.

Arts & Culture
3
Nantucket Community Music Center

To enrich the cultural life of the island by fostering and supporting music education and performance opportunities for young people and adults.

Arts & Culture
4
The Nantucket Education Trust Inc

To generate private support for public education on nantucket, to foster private and public partnerships that benefit the children of nantucket public schools, and to honor excellence in teaching and learning.

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5
Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound Inc

The alliance to protect nantucket sound is a 501(c)(3) non-profit environmental organization dedicated to the permanent preservation of nantucket sound, the historic body of water that lies between cape cod, martha's vineyard, and…

Environment
6
Sankaty Head Historical Foundation

Research and publication of Sankaty Head area of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts

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7
Nantucket Lightship Basket Museum Inc

Promote the awareness and appreciation of lightship baskets and their makers, by educating and engaging the public about the complexity of this art form unique to nantucket. exhibiting historic and contemporary baskets.

Arts & Culture
8
Nantucket Preservation Trust Inc

To educate and encourage property owners as to what is possible to preserve and protect the historical elements of their properties and to raise awareness of the community about the value of and need for historic architectural preservation.

Arts & Culture
9
Cuttyhunk Historical Society Inc
Arts & Culture
10
Aquidneck Island Planning Commission

Aipc works to preserve and improve the environment, economy and quality of life on aquidneck island to ensure that the island remains a great place to live, work, play and thrive.

Community Improvement
11
Nantucket Community Sailing Inc

To engage people of all ages in the joy of sailing, offering access to all nantucket's youth, and teaching every participant in our programs enduring life and leadership skills, with a deep respect for the marine environment.

Recreation & Sports
12
Nantucket Yacht Club

To provide means for the recreation and entertainment of its members, by establishing and maintaining a club with the proper buildings, grounds, and facilities to promote yachting, sports and social activities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Everglades 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

35 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. 35 of the 55 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/35
Grantees still filing
28/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Charles Schwab Charitable Gift Fund: $3,984,000 · OtherCharles Schwab Charitable Gift FundNantucket Cottage Hospital: $765,000 · OtherNantucket Cottage HospitalNANTUCKET BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC: $400,000 · OtherNANTUCKET BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC+31 more: $711,500 · Other+31 moreNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $725,000 · EnvironmentNANTUCKET CONSERVAT…THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $395,000 · EnvironmentTHE EVERGLADES FOUN…NANTUCKET LAND & WATER COUNCIL INC: $360,000 · EnvironmentNANTUCKET LAND & WA…+3 more: $27,500 · EnvironmentCommunity Foundation for Nantucket Inc: $525,000 · PhilanthropyCommunity…HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC: $225,000 · PhilanthropyHOBE SOUN…+1 more: $23,000 · PhilanthropyBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY: $330,000 · Youth DevelopmentJUPITER ISLAND MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $45,000 · HealthFREEDOM INSTITUTE INC: $30,000 · HealthNEW ENGLAND LIFE FLIGHT INC: $27,500 · HealthFAIRWINDS-NANTUCKET'S COUNSELING CENTER: $14,500 · HealthPALLIATIVE AND SUPPORTIVE CARE OF NANTUCKET FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 · HealthHOBE SOUND CHILD CARE CENTER INC: $120,000 · Human ServicesTHE PAST PRESIDENTS' FUND INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesMALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC: $47,500 · Arts & CultureNANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $47,500 · Arts & CultureARTISTS ASSOCIATION OF NANTUCKET INC: $17,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $3,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$5,860,500Environment$1,507,500Philanthropy$773,000Youth Development$330,000Health$131,000Human Services$130,000Arts & Culture$115,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $725,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetCommunity Foundation for Nantucket Inc: $525,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetNANTUCKET BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC: $400,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $395,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetNANTUCKET LAND & WATER COUNCIL INC: $360,000 over 6y, 8.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY: $330,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetHOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC: $225,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetHOBE SOUND CHILD CARE CENTER INC: $120,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetSANKATY HEAD FOUNDATION INC: $115,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetMARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY: $70,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC: $47,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $47,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetJUPITER ISLAND MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $45,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetACKNOW INC: $40,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetFREEDOM INSTITUTE INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetATLANTIC WHITE SHARK CONSERVANCY INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNEW ENGLAND LIFE FLIGHT INC: $27,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $23,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetHOBE SOUND NATURE CENTER INC: $21,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetNANTUCKET SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $20,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetNANTUCKET MARIA MITCHELL ASSOCIATION IN: $17,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetARTISTS ASSOCIATION OF NANTUCKET INC: $17,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetNANTUCKET ATHENEUM INC: $16,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBROOKS SCHOOL: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRWINDS-NANTUCKET'S COUNSELING CENTER: $14,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWALNUT HILL CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $14,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPALLIATIVE AND SUPPORTIVE CARE OF NANTUCKET FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetNATIVES HELPING NATIVES INC: $12,000 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetLOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PAST PRESIDENTS' FUND INC: $10,000 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetLOAVES AND FISHES OF HOBE SOUND INC: $8,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetTHE GUARDIANS OF MARTIN COUNTY INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetJUPITER ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $3,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budget'SCONSET TRUST INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetApollo School Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 9.2% 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 NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc ↗
  • Who funds NANTUCKET BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NANTUCKET LAND & WATER COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC ↗
  • Who funds HOBE SOUND CHILD CARE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SANKATY HEAD FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY ↗
  • Who funds MALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds JUPITER ISLAND MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds ACKNOW INC ↗
  • Who funds FREEDOM INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTIC WHITE SHARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND LIFE FLIGHT INC ↗
  • Who funds NANTUCKET YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HOBE SOUND NATURE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds NANTUCKET SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds NANTUCKET MARIA MITCHELL ASSOCIATION IN ↗
  • Who funds ARTISTS ASSOCIATION OF NANTUCKET INC ↗
  • Who funds NANTUCKET ATHENEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds BROOKS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds FAIRWINDS-NANTUCKET'S COUNSELING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WALNUT HILL CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds PALLIATIVE AND SUPPORTIVE CARE OF NANTUCKET FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

Legatus FoundationThe David and Elizabe…St Clair Charitable T…Ethel D Colket Founda…Colket Family Foundat…Community Foundation …Nelson Mead FundThe Patton Charitable…CMB FoundationStephanie & Lawrence …Nancy Sayles Day Foun…Landmark Charitable F…
Legatus FoundationNC24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Legatus Foundation · The David and Elizabeth Long Foundation · St Clair Charitable Trust · Ethel D Colket Foundation · Colket Family Foundation · Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc · Nelson Mead Fund · The Patton Charitable Foundation · CMB Foundation · Stephanie & Lawrence Flinn Jrcharitable Trust · Nancy Sayles Day Foundation · Landmark Charitable Foundation Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 190%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Marine Biological Laboratory: 20% of income from government
  • Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association in: 9% of income from government
  • New England Life Flight Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Atlantic White Shark Conservancy Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Martin County: 2% of income from government
  • Nantucket Historical Association: 1% of income from government
  • Artists Association of Nantucket Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
19get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 55 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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