Tennessee · Public charity
The Cotton Foundation
To encouage and aid education, scientific experimentation, and research relating to cotton.
- $416k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $77,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 15
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.2M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations The Cotton Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k 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 | 16 | $416k | 6% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $182k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $158k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $161k | 55% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $88k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas A&M Agrilife Research | $206,600 | 5 | n/a |
| The University of Tennessee | $151,600 | 5 | n/a |
| Mississippi State University | $90,100 | 5 | n/a |
| Mississippi State University Foundation Inc | $80,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Louisiana State University | $64,605 | 5 | n/a |
| University of Georgia | $55,400 | 5 | n/a |
| Texas Tech University System | $54,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Curators of the University of Missouri | $49,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Agricultural Research Service (Usda) | $42,000 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Arkansas Foundation Inc | $39,600 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas A&M Agrilife Research | $206,600 | 5 | n/a |
| The University of Tennessee | $151,600 | 5 | n/a |
| Mississippi State University | $90,100 | 5 | n/a |
| Mississippi State University Foundation Inc | $80,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Louisiana State University | $64,605 | 5 | n/a |
| University of Georgia | $55,400 | 5 | n/a |
| Texas Tech University System | $54,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Curators of the University of Missouri | $49,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Agricultural Research Service (Usda) | $42,000 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Arkansas Foundation Inc | $39,600 | 5 | 0% |
| Plant Diagnostics | $34,100 | 5 | n/a |
| Cotton Incorporated | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University | $28,600 | 5 | n/a |
| University of Arizona | $28,600 | 5 | n/a |
| The University of Memphis | $9,409 | 1 | n/a |
| Ecosystem Services Market Consortium | $8,565 | 1 | 0% |
| Auburn University | $8,500 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Florida | $8,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Clemson University | $8,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Darden Bridgeforth & Sons | $5,985 | 1 | n/a |
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 Food and Agriculture · The Nature Conservancy
How this is measured
About The Cotton Foundation
- How much does The Cotton Foundation give?
- The Cotton Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $416,414 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 15 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does The Cotton Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (54%), Food & Nutrition (25%), Philanthropy (9%).
- Who are The Cotton Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Texas A&M Agrilife Research ($207k), The University of Tennessee ($152k), Mississippi State University ($90k).
- Does The Cotton Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Cotton Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for Food and Agriculture, The Nature Conservancy.
- Where is The Cotton Foundation based?
- The Cotton Foundation is based in TN.
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