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The Cotter Foundation Inc

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.

$213k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182025.

Education$258kHealth$220kArts & Culture$195kAnimals$71kFood & Nutrition$38kScience & Tech$33kHousing & Shelter$31kEmployment$29kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $78k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $135k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$841k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Vintage Racers for Rescues Inc$30,000
Life Flight of Maine$25,000
St Jude Children's Research$20,000
McPherson College$20,000
University Radio Foundation Inc$20,000
Autism Society of NC$10,000
Ada Jenkins Families Careers$10,000
Kids in Needs of Desks$8,000
No Kid Hungry$8,000
Save the Children$8,000
Boothbay Regional Health Care Inc$5,000
Wake Forest University$5,000
ASCPA$5,000
Davidson Housing Coalition$5,000
PBS North Carolina$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%La Escuelita Bilingual Preschool: $5k → 10%LA ESCUELITA BILINGUAL PRESCHOOL: $5k → 10%La Escuelita Bilingual Preschool: $5k → 10%La Escuelita Bilingual Preschool: $5k → 10%La Escuelita Bilingual Preschool: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ME
NH
IL
NY
MA
CT
VA
KS
NC
DC
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$863k · 31 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +56% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
13

Total granted

$863k
$57k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+56%

Still filing today

58%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthInternationalHousing & ShelterScience & TechOther

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

  • MC
    MCPHERSON COLLEGE
    8× · 2018–2025 · $167k · revenue +124%
  • UR
    UNIVERSITY RADIO FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $93k · revenue +9%
  • LO
    LifeFlight of Maine LLC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • F
    FEEDNC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -42%
  • BS
    BROOKSTONE SCHOOLS OF MECKLENBURG
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • FB
    FAMILYAID BOSTON INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +82%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Aaca Museum Inc

The aaca museum is dedicated to the preservation and presentation of motor vehicle history in a manner that provides for the education and entertainment of our guests.

Arts & Culture
2
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
3
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center

Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
4
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
5
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
6
The Outer Banks Hospital Inc

To enhance the quality of life for the residents and visitors of dare county and the surrounding region by promoting wellness and providing the highest quality healthcare services.

Health
7
Lowell Observatory

The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…

Science & Tech
8
The National World War Ii Museum Inc

The national wwii museum tells the story of the american experience in the war that changed the world-why it was fought, how it was won, and what it means today-so that all generations will understand the price of freedom and be inspired…

Arts & Culture
9
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
10
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

11
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
12
Penobscot Community Health Center

Penobscot Community Health Center (PCHC) is a non-profit organization incorporated in 1997 that is governed by a Board of community volunteers and is the largest Federally Qualified Health Center in Maine. PCHC is driven by its mission…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Victory Junction Gang Camp Inc and the most unlike its peers is Seal Cove Auto Museum. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Health CentersDevelopmental Disabilities …Government Accountability R…Land Conservation Organizat…Community Arts OrganizationsAnimal Rescue and AdoptionAt-Risk Youth MentoringCancer Support OrganizationsAffordable Housing Developm…Food Pantries & AssistanceFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%37%20–35yr13%7%35–55yr16%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%43%20–35yr13%4%35–55yr16%41%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/27
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,538

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.

04the grantee network

25 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 47 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
21/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Vintage Racers for Rescues Inc — $65,500 · OtherVintage Racers for Rescues IncSt Jude Children's Research — $65,000 · OtherSt Jude Children's ResearchSTEWARDS OF BOOTHBAY HARBOR DBA — $30,000 · OtherSTEWARDS OF BOOTHBAY HARBOR DBAAUTISM SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC — $30,000 · OtherAUTISM SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA INCMaine Public Broadcasting Corporati — $19,000 · OtherAda Jenkins Families Careers — $18,500 · OtherAmerican Society for the Prevention — $18,000 · OtherThe Davidson Housing Coalition — $23,000 · OtherThe Davidson Housing CoalitionBigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences — $22,500 · Other+25 more — $136,465 · Other+25 moreMCPHERSON COLLEGE — $167,000 · EducationMCPHERSON COLLEGEWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY — $40,000 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITYPUT ON THE BRAKES INC — $15,000 · EducationPUT ON THE BRAKES INCUNIVERSITY RADIO FOUNDATION INC — $93,000 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY RAD…The Owls Head Transportation Museum — $13,500 · Arts & CultureThe Owls Head …THE OPERA HOUSE AT BOOTHBAY HARBOR — $8,200 · Arts & CultureTHE OPERA HOUS…+1 more — $2,000 · Arts & CultureLifeFlight of Maine LLC — $75,000 · Public Safety & DisasterLifeFligh…BOOTHBAY REGION HEALTH CARE INC — $27,500 · HealthThe Joe Martin ALS Foundation — $1,000 · Health+1 more — $500 · HealthLA ESCUELITA BILINGUAL PRE-SCHOOL — $25,000 · Human ServicesFEEDNC — $25,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$427,965Education$222,000Arts & Culture$116,700Public Safety & Disaster$75,000Health$29,000Human Services$25,000Food & Nutrition$25,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMCPHERSON COLLEGE — $167,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY RADIO FOUNDATION INC — $93,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetLifeFlight of Maine LLC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY — $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOOTHBAY REGION HEALTH CARE INC — $27,500 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetLA ESCUELITA BILINGUAL PRE-SCHOOL — $25,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetFEEDNC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Davidson Housing Coalition — $23,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetBigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences — $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPUT ON THE BRAKES INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe Owls Head Transportation Museum — $13,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEAL COVE AUTO MUSEUM — $11,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE OPERA HOUSE AT BOOTHBAY HARBOR — $8,200 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILYAID BOSTON INC — $7,095 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJohn C Campbell Folk School Inc — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKYLE PETTY CHARITY RIDE INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetA2S Access to Success — $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Joe Martin ALS Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAnimal Protection Society of the — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 MCPHERSON COLLEGE
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY RADIO FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds LifeFlight of Maine LLC
  • Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds AUTISM SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC
  • Who funds BOOTHBAY REGION HEALTH CARE INC
  • Who funds LA ESCUELITA BILINGUAL PRE-SCHOOL
  • Who funds FEEDNC
  • Who funds The Davidson Housing Coalition
  • Who funds Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
  • Who funds PUT ON THE BRAKES INC
  • Who funds The Owls Head Transportation Museum
  • Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc
  • Who funds SEAL COVE AUTO MUSEUM
  • Who funds THE OPERA HOUSE AT BOOTHBAY HARBOR
  • Who funds FAMILYAID BOSTON INC
  • Who funds John C Campbell Folk School Inc
  • Who funds KYLE PETTY CHARITY RIDE INC
  • Who funds A2S Access to Success
  • Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC
  • Who funds The Joe Martin ALS Foundation

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.

Foundation for the CarolinasNC18.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Albemarle Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment 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 The Cotter Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc30% of income from government
  • Familyaid Boston Inc4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Cotter Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Cotter Foundation 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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