· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| YOU BALL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CONVENT OF THE SACRED HEART | $5,000 |
| THE LOS ANGELES RADIO READING SERVICECOMMUNITY PARTNERS | $5,000 |
| THE VARIETY CHILDREN'S CHARITY | $4,450 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +44% since the first grant, against +2% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- OMONLY MAKE BELIEVE INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +113%
ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INCone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -27%- ACAMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +53%
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.
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.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 26 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 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 ONLY MAKE BELIEVE INC ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW 42ND STREET INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK 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: Charities Aid Foundation America · 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 James J Cotter Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James J Cotter Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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