· Private foundation
The Coto Foundation
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $111k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIFESAVERS INC | $500,000 |
| NORTHRIDGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $80,000 |
| DISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER OF LOS ANGELES | $45,000 |
| SHELTER HOPE ENTERPRISES INC | $35,000 |
| FULFILLMENT FUND | $17,000 |
| DISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY | $14,000 |
| SHELTER HOPE ENTERPRISES INC | $8,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $130k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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.
14 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 8 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
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
- LILIFESAVERS INC8× · 2017–2025 · $735k · revenue +7%
- NHNORTHRIDGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $535k · revenue +2%
- DSDISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER OF LOS ANGELES9× · 2017–2025 · $532k · revenue +109%
Funded once
- AFANIMAL FRIENDS OF THE VALLEYS INCone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +19%
- CSCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +130%
- SMST MARYS HEALTH WAGON INCone grant, 2023 · $47k · revenue 0%
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.
Spcala is dedicated to the prevention of cruelty to animals through education, law enforcement, intervention and advocacy.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
To substantially reduce animal shelter euthanasia and intake by providing high quality, low cost veterinary services to underserved communities in the los angeles area.
See schedule orancho coastal is dedicated to the rescue and shelter of abandoned companion animals. it encourages adoptions into loving homes and provides educational and community outreach programs designed to enhance the human-animal…
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…
To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
The california wildlife center (cwc) takes responsibility for the protection of all native wildlife through rehabilitiation, education and conservation. as the los angeles area's premier wildlife medical care and rehabilitation facility,…
The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Antelope Valley Partners for Health and the most unlike its peers is Red Bucket Equine Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 27 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
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 LIFESAVERS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHRIDGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds FULFILLMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds FINDING FREEDOM THROUGH FRIENDSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL FRIENDS OF THE VALLEYS INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHELTER HOPE ENTERPRISES INC D/B/A SHELTER HOPE PET SHOP ↗
- Who funds ST MARYS HEALTH WAGON INC ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE CHARTER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SOL-LA MUSIC ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds RED BUCKET EQUINE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds NEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THRIVE GLOBAL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE RESCUE ME PET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA PAULA ANIMAL RESCUE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ANTELOPE VALLEY PARTNERS FOR HEALTH ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC ↗
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 Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Greater Good Charities · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 The Coto Foundation 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.
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.