Minnesota · Private foundation
James M Cox Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $121k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $26,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 25
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations James M Cox Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $116k | 6% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $105k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $104k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $102k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $87k | 24% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $107k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grace Children's Home Company | $27,200 | 6 | 2% |
| Omaha Bridges Out of Poverty Inc | $20,200 | 5 | 0% |
| Nebraska Wesleyan University | $13,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Out of Poverty | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Concordia University | $5,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Doane University | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Hastings College | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Clarkson College | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| College of Saint Mary | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grace Children's Home Company | $27,200 | 6 | 2% |
| Omaha Bridges Out of Poverty Inc | $20,200 | 5 | 0% |
| Nebraska Wesleyan University | $13,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Out of Poverty | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Concordia University | $5,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Doane University | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Hastings College | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Clarkson College | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| College of Saint Mary | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Creighton University | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Center for People in Need | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Heartland Baptist Bible College Inc | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Midland University | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| York University | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mount Marty University | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($520k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget James M Cox Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Educationquest Foundation Inc · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Tulsa Community Foundation · Marjorie Leu Skala Foundation Trust · Cooper Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Hooker Cty Community Foundationinc · The Steinhart Foundation Inc · Berneice M Hopper Private Foundation 9285002 · Nebraska Community Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Ibm International Foundation
How this is measured
About James M Cox Foundation
- How much does James M Cox Foundation give?
- James M Cox Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $121,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 25 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does James M Cox Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (84%), Human Services (11%), Philanthropy (4%).
- Who are James M Cox Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Grace Children's Home Company ($27k), Omaha Bridges Out of Poverty Inc ($20k), Nebraska Wesleyan University ($13k).
- Does James M Cox Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does James M Cox Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as James M Cox Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Educationquest Foundation Inc, Lincoln Community Foundation Inc, Tulsa Community Foundation.
- Where is James M Cox Foundation based?
- James M Cox Foundation is based in MN.
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