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Msb Cockayne Fund Inc

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.

$3.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
111
Grants FY2024
114
Organizations funded FY2023
14%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$600,000
Organizations funded a year
106 to 123
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
17
Total assets, FY2024
$25M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 14% of the organizations Msb Cockayne Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $378k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentEducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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
FY2024still arriving108$3.2M4%
FY2023114$3.7M14%
FY2022123$4.0M11%
FY2021119$3.8M13%
FY2020116$3.1M19%
FY2019106$2.7M17%
FY2018123$2.7Mn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$7.1MEnvironment$4.2MArts & Culture$2.3MHealth$2.3MReligion$2.0MPhilanthropy$1.4MRecreation & Sports$910kCommunity Improvement$815kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Thacher School Inc$1,750,00033%
Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of California$1,050,0007n/a
Kqed Inc$930,00051%
Southern Environmental Law Center$905,00070%
Civic Design Center$720,000422%
Christ Church Cathedral$705,0005n/a
The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc$689,00077%
Linden Waldorf School Inc$484,00056%
University School of Nashville$476,00070%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$393,00070%
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All grantees of Msb Cockayne Fund Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Thacher School Inc$1,750,00033%
Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of California$1,050,0007n/a
Kqed Inc$930,00051%
Southern Environmental Law Center$905,00070%
Civic Design Center$720,000422%
Christ Church Cathedral$705,0005n/a
The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc$689,00077%
Linden Waldorf School Inc$484,00056%
University School of Nashville$476,00070%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$393,00070%
Yale University$330,0007n/a
Ream Foundation$299,256112%
Bay Area Lyme Foundation$284,50065%
Centennial Park Conservancy$274,00072%
Bayorg$268,00051%
Nashville Parks Foundation$236,000754%
National Parks Conservation Association$205,00020%
Creative Visions Foundation$200,00031%
Defenders of Wildlife$200,00030%
The Village at Glencliff$200,000417%
Convergence Center for Policy Resolution$190,00062%
United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc$185,00070%
Friends of the Warner Parks Inc$184,00073%
Ten Strands$183,00074%
Khan Academy Inc$175,00070%
Montgomery Bell Academy of the University of Nashville$175,00070%
Friends of the Urban Forest$171,00071%
Lyme Disease Association Inc$165,000612%
Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art$155,00060%
The Pastoral Center for Healing$155,00076%
Kent School$150,00040%
One Kid One World$150,000720%
Nashville Public Radio$145,50071%
Nashville Public Education Foundation$145,00072%
The Harpeth Hall School$143,00070%
Open Table of Nashville Inc$142,50064%
LymeLight Foundation$140,00066%
Andrew Jackson Foundation Fka Ladies' Hermitage Association$140,00071%
San Francisco Ballet Association$130,00050%
Refed Inc$125,00051%
Foxcroft School$125,00060%
Alive Hospice Inc$116,00060%
Think Tennessee$113,00073%
Conservation Florida Inc$106,00035%
Operation Stand Down Tennessee$106,00060%
Thistle Farms Inc$105,00060%
American Farmland Trust$105,00070%
St Augustine's Chapel$105,0005n/a
Harpeth Conservancy$101,00074%
University of Mississippi Foundation$100,00020%
Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc$93,00070%
Nashville Public Television Inc$92,00070%
Friends of the River Foundation$90,000110%
Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene Inc$85,00030%
Northeastern University$85,00040%
Nashville Tree Foundation$83,000610%
American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee Inc$80,000318%
Foodcorps Inc$80,00020%
Vanderbilt University$77,50030%
The Berry Center Inc$75,00032%
Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies Inc$75,00030%
American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee Foundation Inc$75,00016%
Challenge Success$73,50071%
The J David Gladstone Institutes$70,00010%
Cumberland Region Tomorrow$70,000733%
Greenways for Nashville Inc$66,00074%
Nashville Tree Conservation Corps$66,000128%
The Crossroads Campus$64,00051%
California Academy of Sciences$60,00060%
Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation$58,00040%
The Porch Writers Collective Inc$50,00045%
Urban Green Lab$50,00016%
Drew School$50,00020%
Alzar School Inc$50,00011%
The Trust for Public Land$50,00010%
Cumberland River Compact Inc$49,00061%
Room in the Inn Inc$42,5002n/a
Appalachian Trail Conservancy$42,00040%
Common Sense Media$42,00070%
Nashville Public Library Foundation$40,00040%
Cape Eleuthera Foundation Inc$35,00021%
Frist Art Museum$35,00070%
Nashville Symphony Association$31,00070%
Point Reyes National Seashore Association$30,00021%
Fisk University$30,00060%
Teach for America Inc$30,00060%
Shakertown at Pleasant Hill Kentucky Inc$28,00070%
The Philanthropy Workshop Inc Dba Forward Global$27,00020%
Stroud Water Research Center$27,00070%
Battle of Franklin Trust Inc$26,00060%
Alliance for Green Hills Foundation Inc$25,0004n/a
Vanderbilt University Medical Center$22,50050%
Rooftop Foundation$21,00042%
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research$20,00070%
State Voices$20,00010%
NEO Philanthropy Inc$20,00010%
Abe's Garden$20,00010%
Environmental Law Institute$20,00010%
NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc$20,00010%
Sexual Assault Center$18,00050%
Nashville Safe Haven Family Shelter Inc$17,00040%
Siloam Health$16,00070%
College to Congress$15,00012%
Friends of Shelby Park Inc$15,00023%
The Rochelle Center$14,00070%
Larkspur Conservation$14,00071%
Water First International$13,00030%
The James Beard Foundation Inc$12,50010%
Friends of Radnor Lake$12,00021%
Friends of Fort Negley Inc$11,000229%
Greenbelt Alliancepeople for Open Space$10,00010%
Tenngreen Land Conservancy$10,00070%
Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy$10,00010%
soQuiet$10,0001n/a
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc$10,00010%
Nashville Zoo Inc$8,00070%
The Family Center Inc$7,00070%
Urban Housing Solutions Inc$7,00070%
Conexion Americas$7,00070%
Livlyme Foundation$7,00012%
The Ensworth School$7,00070%
Time to Rise Inc$7,00070%
The Madeira School$6,50030%
The Filson Historical Society Inc$6,00060%
Amigos de las Americas$6,00060%
Oceana Inc$5,00010%
The Land Institute$5,00010%
Nashville Public Media Inc$5,00012%
Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tn Inc$5,00030%
Cumberland University$5,00010%
Ocean Conservancy$5,00010%
Nashville Shakespeare Festival$5,00050%
Backfield in Motion$5,00050%
Nashville Classical Charter School$5,00050%
Nashville Historical Foundation$5,00012%
Historic Nashville Inc$4,00049%
Richland Creek Watershed Alliance$4,00024%
Jamestowne Society Inc$4,00030%
Bonefish & Tarpon Trust Inc$3,00030%
Goodwill Industries of Middle TN Inc$3,00030%
The Kentucky Science Center Inc$3,00010%
Kentucky Historical Society Foundation Inc$3,00030%
Humanities Tennessee$3,00030%
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Nashville$3,00020%
The Southeast Alabama Medical Center Foundation Inc$2,50010%
Denison University$2,50020%
The Garden Conservancy Inc$2,00010%
Logans Fort Foundation$2,0002n/a
Equal Chance for Education$2,00020%
University of the South$2,00020%
Tj Martell Foundation$2,00011%
Fifty Vanderbilt Foundation Inc$2,00020%
Muhammad Ali Museum and Education Center$2,00020%
The Garden Club of America$1,0001n/a
Episcopal School of Nashville$1,00010%
Friends of Kellytown Inc Dba Friends of Aaittafama' Archaeological Park$1,0001100%
Facing History & Ourselves Inc$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 54 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.3M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Msb Cockayne Fund Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 148 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Thacher School Inc: $1,750,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetKqed Inc: $930,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSouthern Environmental Law Center: $905,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCivic Design Center: $720,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetThe Land Trust for Tennessee Inc: $689,000 over 7y, 7.2% of budgetLinden Waldorf School Inc: $484,000 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetUniversity School of Nashville: $476,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $393,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetReam Foundation: $299,256 over 1y, 12% of budgetBay Area Lyme Foundation: $284,500 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetCentennial Park Conservancy: $274,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetBayorg: $268,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetNashville Parks Foundation: $236,000 over 7y, 54% of budgetNational Parks Conservation Association: $205,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCreative Visions Foundation: $200,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $200,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Village at Glencliff: $200,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetConvergence Center for Policy Resolution: $190,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetUnited Way of Middle Tennessee Inc: $185,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Warner Parks Inc: $184,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetTen Strands: $183,000 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetKhan Academy Inc: $175,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMontgomery Bell Academy of the University of Nashville: $175,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Urban Forest: $171,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetLyme Disease Association Inc: $165,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetCheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art: $155,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetThe Pastoral Center for Healing: $155,000 over 7y, 5.6% of budgetKent School: $150,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOne Kid One World: $150,000 over 7y, 20% of budgetNashville Public Radio: $145,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetNashville Public Education Foundation: $145,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetThe Harpeth Hall School: $143,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetOpen Table of Nashville Inc: $142,500 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetLymeLight Foundation: $140,000 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetAndrew Jackson Foundation Fka Ladies' Hermitage Association: $140,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetSan Francisco Ballet Association: $130,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRefed Inc: $125,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetFoxcroft School: $125,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAlive Hospice Inc: $116,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThink Tennessee: $113,000 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetConservation Florida Inc: $106,000 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetOperation Stand Down Tennessee: $106,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetThistle Farms Inc: $105,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Farmland Trust: $105,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHarpeth Conservancy: $101,000 over 7y, 3.7% of budgetUniversity of Mississippi Foundation: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWoodwell Climate Research Center Inc: $93,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNashville Public Television Inc: $92,000 over 7y, 0.3% 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 148.

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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.

The Frist FoundationTN67.1× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Frist Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · W L Lyons Brown Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · The Blum Family Foundation · Enchiridion Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation · Ebs 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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How do I get to Msb Cockayne Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to Msb Cockayne Fund Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Msb Cockayne Fund Inc

How much does Msb Cockayne Fund Inc give?
Msb Cockayne Fund Inc reported 111 grants totaling $3,200,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 106 and 123 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Msb Cockayne Fund Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (30%), Environment (18%), Arts & Culture (10%).
Who are Msb Cockayne Fund Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: The Thacher School Inc ($1.8M), Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of California ($1.1M), Kqed Inc ($930k).
Does Msb Cockayne Fund Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Msb Cockayne Fund Inc 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 Msb Cockayne Fund Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Frist Foundation, Memorial Foundation Inc, W L Lyons Brown Foundation.
Where is Msb Cockayne Fund Inc based?
Msb Cockayne Fund Inc is based in TN.

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 216 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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