Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Cottage Bridge 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.
- $584k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 60
- Grants FY2025
- 66
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,181
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 68
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations The Cottage Bridge Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 59 | $579k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 66 | $598k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 68 | $604k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 66 | $633k | 24% |
| FY2021 | 55 | $519k | 36% |
| FY2020 | 40 | $488k | 23% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $324k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 31 | $342k | 45% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pittsburgh Cultural Trust | $325,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank | $192,500 | 9 | 0% |
| The Society for Art in Crafts | $185,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Hampshire College Trustees | $175,000 | 3 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $155,707 | 7 | 0% |
| Women's Center and Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh | $125,439 | 9 | 0% |
| Medical Debt Resolution Inc | $115,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Blessings in a Backpack Inc | $113,044 | 9 | 0% |
| Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting Corporation | $110,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc | $95,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 89 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($915k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Cottage Bridge Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Hillman Family Foundations · The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Adirondack Trust Company Community Fund · James Frances McCandless Trust · Opportunity Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Cottage Bridge Foundation
- How much does The Cottage Bridge Foundation give?
- The Cottage Bridge Foundation reported 60 grants totaling $583,864 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 68 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Cottage Bridge Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (17%), Food & Nutrition (11%), Civil Rights (11%).
- Who are The Cottage Bridge Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Pittsburgh Cultural Trust ($325k), Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank ($193k), The Society for Art in Crafts ($185k).
- Does The Cottage Bridge Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Cottage Bridge Foundation 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 The Cottage Bridge Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hillman Family Foundations, The Pittsburgh Foundation, The Heinz Endowments.
- Where is The Cottage Bridge Foundation based?
- The Cottage Bridge Foundation is based in PA.
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