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Louis S Cox Trust Under Will

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.

$27k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2025
5
Organizations funded FY2024
20%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 6
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$617k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Louis S Cox Trust Under Will funded were first-time grantees, receiving 60% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving7$22k0%
FY20245$25k20%
FY20236$20k17%
FY20226$23k17%
FY20215$25k0%
FY20206$20k17%
FY20196$25k17%
FY20186$23k17%
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Youth Development$54kHousing & Shelter$45kHuman Services$39kPhilanthropy$20kArts & Culture$19kFood & Nutrition$17kAnimals$900Recreation & Sports$900Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($77k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Louis S Cox Trust Under Will supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLawrence Boys & Girls Club Inc: $47,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetLazarus House Inc: $45,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetEssex Art Center Inc: $19,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetMerrimack Valley Young Men's Christian Association Inc: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSi Se Puede Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetBread & Roses Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFresh Air Fund: $900 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $900 over 9y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Josephine G Russell TrustMA15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Josephine G Russell Trust · RCB Charitable Foundation Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Salem Community Benefit Inc · Charles G Pringle Foundation · The Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Artemas W Stearns Trust · The Bulens Family Foundation · Rogers Family Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Ge Aerospace Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Louis S Cox Trust Under Will

How much does Louis S Cox Trust Under Will give?
Louis S Cox Trust Under Will reported 8 grants totaling $27,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 6 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Louis S Cox Trust Under Will fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (23%), Housing & Shelter (19%), Human Services (17%).
Who are Louis S Cox Trust Under Will's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lawrence Boys & Girls Club Inc ($47k), Lazarus House Inc ($45k), Essex Art Center Inc ($19k).
Does Louis S Cox Trust Under Will fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Louis S Cox Trust Under Will accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Louis S Cox Trust Under Will?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Josephine G Russell Trust, RCB Charitable Foundation Inc, Essex County Community Foundation Inc.
Where is Louis S Cox Trust Under Will based?
Louis S Cox Trust Under Will is based in TX.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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