· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Ada Jenkins Families Careers | $10,000 |
| Autism Society of NC | $10,000 |
| No Kid Hungry | $8,000 |
| Save the Children | $8,000 |
| Kids in Needs of Desks | $8,000 |
| Wake Forest University | $5,000 |
| ASCPA | $5,000 |
| Davidson Housing Coalition | $5,000 |
| Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Scienc | $5,000 |
| PBS North Carolina | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +56% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MCMCPHERSON COLLEGE8× · 2018–2025 · $167k · revenue +124%
- URUNIVERSITY RADIO FOUNDATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $93k · revenue +9%
- LOLifeFlight of Maine LLC3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- FFEEDNCone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -42%
- BSBROOKSTONE SCHOOLS OF MECKLENBURGone grant, 2019 · $10k
- FBFAMILYAID BOSTON INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +82%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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.
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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.
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…
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,…
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.
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…
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…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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,…
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…
How this is measured
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 47 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 VINTAGE RACERS FOR RESCUES INC ↗
- 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 A2S Access to Success ↗
- Who funds KYLE PETTY CHARITY RIDE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds The Joe Martin ALS Foundation ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Cotter Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cotter Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Familyaid Boston Inc: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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