· Private foundation
Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $280k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $748k
- $250k+5 grants · $8.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEDTECH INNOVATOR | $3,606,250 |
| C-PATH INSTITUTE TRXA | $3,100,000 |
| STANFORD BIODESIGN FOGARTY INSTITUTE | $1,000,000 |
| RESEARCH CORPORATION FOR SCIENCE ADVANCEMENT | $520,579 |
| LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH | $300,000 |
| SOTERIA PRECISION MEDICINE FOUNDAON | $220,000 |
| HONORHEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $200,000 |
| UNIV OF AZ FDTN - PHARMACY KEYS PROGRAM | $128,000 |
| INTEGRATIVE TOUCH FOR KIDS | $50,000 |
| PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| CLASSICAL TAHOE | $50,000 |
| SILKROAD | $50,000 |
| SALPOINTE CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| SARSEF | $40,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA FOUNDATION INC | $35,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $199k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
63 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- MIMEDTECH INNOVATOR7× · 2017–2024 · $10M · revenue +374% · 58% of their budget
University of Arizona Foundation7× · 2017–2023 · $9.1M · revenue +109%- ADARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM5× · 2019–2023 · $2.7M · revenue +40%
Funded once
- UFUCLA FOUNDATION - FGCF INT'L NEURORADILOGY EXCELLENCE RESEARCH FUNDone grant, 2023 · $927k
- SUSTANFORD UNIVERSITYBIODESIGNone grant, 2018 · $800k
- IFINTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH IN EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICSone grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue -98% · 63% of their budget
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.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Phoenix children's hospital foundation supports phoenix children's hospital through fundraising ensuring that the hospital continues to stay on the leading edge of pediatric medicine and is equipped to fulfill its mission to advance hope,…
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
To connect, support and inform efforts to improve the health of individuals and communities in arizona.
The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…
Bringing arizonans together to create a stronger and brighter future for our state.
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.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
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The santa fe institute is a transdisciplinary research community that expands the boundaries of scientific understanding. its aim is to discover, comprehend, and communicate the common fundamental principles in complex physical,…
Science foundation arizona's mission is to diversify arizona's economy by investing in scientific and engineering research linked to industry needs and investing in education to create a work force with 21st centrury skills.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arizona Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Bugles Across America Nfp. 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 38 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
91 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. 91 of the 140 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 MEDTECH INNOVATOR ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH IN EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS ↗
- Who funds Soteria Precision Medicine Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Integrative Touch ↗
- Who funds SILK ROAD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN ↗
- Who funds SALPOINTE CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CLASSICAL TAHOE ↗
- Who funds CALVIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Norwalk Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds KIPP ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR NORTHERN OH CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds Folds of Honor Palmetto State Chapter ↗
- Who funds Sarasota Opera Association Inc ↗
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: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · Marshall Foundation · Social Venture Partners Tucson · Fred & Christine Armstrong Foundation · Angel Charity for Children Inc · Community Food Bank Inc · Texas Instruments 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 Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation 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.
- Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc — 23% of income from government
- Child Protection Center Inc — 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Silk Road Project Inc — 4% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
- Florida Studio Theatre 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.
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