· Private foundation
Eleanor Cray Cottle Charitable Trust
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Wildlands Trust | $10,000 |
| Dana Farber Cance Research Institute | $7,000 |
| WGBH | $5,000 |
| St Vincent de Paul's | $5,000 |
| Doctors Without Borders | $4,000 |
| Pine Street Inn | $4,000 |
| Rosie's Place | $4,000 |
| Alzheimer's Association | $3,000 |
| Plympton Teachers Assoc | $3,000 |
| NPR | $2,000 |
| CARE Gift Center | $2,000 |
| Plymouth Public Library | $2,000 |
| Project Hope | $2,000 |
| Save the Children | $1,000 |
| Black Feather Horse Rescue | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 10 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WTWILDLANDS TRUST INC9× · 2017–2025 · $72k · revenue +34%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $62k · revenue +162%- PPPlymouth Public Library Corporation9× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- DSDexter Schoolone grant, 2020 · $5k
- SSST SEBASTIANS SCHOOL INCone grant, 2020 · $5k
- CSCretin-Derham Schoolone grant, 2023 · $4k
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.
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.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
To protect the nature of massachusetts for people and for wildlife through education, land conservation, advocacy, scientific research, and habitat stewardship/restoration.
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 40 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds WILDLANDS TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds Plymouth Public Library Corporation ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds DEXTER SOUTHFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds Appalachian Mountain Club ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds LOWELL TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST SEBASTIAN SCHOOL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH 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.
Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Eleanor Cray Cottle Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eleanor Cray Cottle Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc: 32% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Wildlands Trust Inc: 5% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club: 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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