· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k49 grants · $116k
- $10k–50k48 grants · $1.0M
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+2 grants · $900k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE THACHER SCHOOL | $600,000 |
| NASHVILLE CIVIC DESIGN CENTER | $300,000 |
| SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER | $210,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TN HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER | $175,000 |
| GRACE CATHEDRAL | $150,000 |
| DUKE HEALTH DEVELOPMENT & ALUMNI AFFAIRS | $150,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE RIVER FOUNDATION | $90,000 |
| DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE | $75,000 |
| THE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE | $60,000 |
| HARPETH CONSERVANCY | $55,000 |
| THE VILLAGE AT GLENCLIFF | $50,000 |
| ALZAR SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| LYMELIGHT FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| ILLUMINATE | $50,000 |
| FOOD CORPS | $40,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $461k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
164 repeat relationships — 104 still active in FY2024, 60 since wound down; 4 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TTThe Thacher School Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +22%
- KIKQED INC5× · 2018–2022 · $930k · revenue +22%
SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER7× · 2018–2024 · $905k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- RFREAM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $299k · revenue -55%
- MIMILKEN INSTITUTE CENTER FOR STRATEGIC PHILANTHROPYone grant, 2022 · $125k
- WCWELDON COOPER CENTERone grant, 2021 · $100k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
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 natural areas conservancy champions urban natural areas in new york city and across the nation through innovative research, partnerships, and advocacy. we increase the health and resilience of urban forests and wetlands, catalyze…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Parks Foundation and the most unlike its peers is SoQuiet. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
155 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 155 of the 216 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds The Thacher School Inc ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds CIVIC DESIGN CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds LINDEN WALDORF SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds REAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA LYME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTENNIAL PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BAYORG ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Defenders of Wildlife ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE AT GLENCLIFF ↗
- Who funds CONVERGENCE CENTER FOR POLICY RESOLUTION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds Ten Strands ↗
- Who funds KHAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE URBAN FOREST ↗
- Who funds Lyme Disease Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE PASTORAL CENTER FOR HEALING ↗
- Who funds ONE KID ONE WORLD ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Msb Cockayne Fund Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Foodcorps Inc — 21% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc — 11% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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