· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ESSEX ART CENTER | $5,000 |
| LAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $5,000 |
| ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MERRIMACK VALLEY YMCA | $4,000 |
| LAZARUS HOUSE INC | $3,000 |
| THE FRESH AIR FUND | $100 |
| MSPCA-ANGELL | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 1% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
LAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC9× · 2017–2025 · $47k · revenue +68%
LAZARUS HOUSE INC8× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +14%
Essex Art Center Inc4× · 2019–2025 · $19k · revenue +101%
Funded once
- FFFOOD FOR THE WORLD INCone grant, 2024 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $6k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
Provide after school educational programs to students of the Lawrence School in Brookline MA
Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…
The massachusetts legal assistance corporation provides leadership and support to improve civil legal services to low-income people in massachusetts through collaboration with the legal services community, the legislature, the public, the…
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
The mission of the lawrence arts center is to create meaningful arts experiences with and for the community through education, exhibitions, and performances.
To provide free high quality legal services to maine residents aged sixty & over, who qualify for legal services under the older americans act, 42 usca sec. 3001 et seq, as amended.
LPC's mission is to help children become good friends, proficient problem solvers, creative risk takers, and self-governing, accepting classmates. We want them to be as self-sufficient and independent as they can be based on their age and…
Laurence endeavors to develop the unique abilities and potential of each of its students in a diverse, inclusive and supportive learning community, where rich traditions and an innovative curriculum foster educational excellence and joy in…
Lwvma, a nonpartisan organization, encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy.
The mission of the massachusetts nonprofit network is to unite and strengthen the nonprofit sector in the commonwealth through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.
Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.
Securing gifts from the community to strengthen and supplement the public's investment in the library. lawrence public library friends & foundation supports the immediate and long-term needs of the library through financial support,…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 14 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 LAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Essex Art Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Si Se Puede Inc ↗
- Who funds BREAD & ROSES INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Louis S Cox Trust Under Will funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Louis S Cox Trust Under Will. Bigger dots raise more.
- Essex Art Center Inc: 3% of income from government
- Essex County Community Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
- Lazarus House Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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