· Private foundation
James J Cotter 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 $10k10 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $146k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $70,000 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $35,000 |
| HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| THE PAULIST FATHERSST PAUL THE APOSTLE | $26,500 |
| WILL ROGERS MOTION PICTURE PIONEERS FOUNDATION | $16,225 |
| VARIETY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $13,000 |
| XAVIER HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| MARYMOUNT HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| THE MOTION PICTURE CLUB FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| PROVIDENCE MISSION HOSPITAL LAGUNA BEACH | $6,000 |
| YOU BALL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CONVENT OF THE SACRED HEART | $5,000 |
| THE LOS ANGELES RADIO READING SERVICECOMMUNITY PARTNERS | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE VARIETY CHILDREN'S CHARITY | $4,450 |
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 (FY19–19, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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 +44% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY7× · 2018–2024 · $400k · revenue +44%- HSHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $203k · revenue +21%
- VSVILLAGE SCHOOL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $101k · revenue +173%
Funded once
- ACAMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +53%
ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INCone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -27%- TNTHE NEW 42ND STREET INCone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +2%
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 University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
York school is an award-winning, private, coed college-prep school for grades 8-12, that develops confident and authentic leaders. we offer an academically challenging experiential program for bright, kind, and driven students in an…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Our mission is to "empower children to fulfill their unlimited, god-given potential as fearless scholars and conscientious citizens."
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Bb&n, an all gender day school in cambridge, massachusetts, was established in 1974 by the merger of two independent schools, the buckingham school and the browne & nichols school, founded respectively in 1889 and 1883. located on multiple…
The buckley school is a dynamic, nurturing learning community committed to equity and inclusion. our innovative teachers and challenging programs inspire creativity, courage, and collaboration. by promoting a balanced development of mind,…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Variety Boys & Girls Club and the most unlike its peers is God Squad Productions Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 26 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 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds VARIETY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB ↗
- Who funds WILL ROGERS MOTION PICTURE PIONEERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOD SQUAD PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUBALL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW 42ND STREET INC ↗
- Who funds ONLY MAKE BELIEVE INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK 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: Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 James J Cotter 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.
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.