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The Foundation of the Family of Cm and Edna P Cotton

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$796k
Granted FY2022
26
Grants FY2022
26
Organizations funded FY2022
77%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$16,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$159,200
Organizations funded a year
7 to 26
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
6
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 77% of the organizations The Foundation of the Family of Cm and Edna P Cotton funded were first-time grantees, receiving 74% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $589k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’21’22
Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEnvironmentFood & NutritionHealthHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202226$796k77%
FY20217$30k29%
FY201812$75k25%
FY201710$75kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Education$286kEnvironment$240kFood & Nutrition$115kHuman Services$84kHousing & Shelter$66kYouth Development$61kHealth$41kInternational$25kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Santa Catalina Island Conservancy$109,10031%
Hermann Park Conservancy$100,30011%
Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County Inc$84,20010%
Share Our Selves Corporation$62,20040%
The Beacon of Downtown Houston$37,55031%
Newport Beach Junior Lifeguard Foundation$27,00012%
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation$23,10040%
Mater Dei High School Roman Catholic Bishop of Orange$19,9001n/a
Africa Schools of Kenya$19,400130%
Homeboy Industries$16,00010%
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All grantees of The Foundation of the Family of Cm and Edna P Cotton by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Santa Catalina Island Conservancy$109,10031%
Hermann Park Conservancy$100,30011%
Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County Inc$84,20010%
Share Our Selves Corporation$62,20040%
The Beacon of Downtown Houston$37,55031%
Newport Beach Junior Lifeguard Foundation$27,00012%
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation$23,10040%
Mater Dei High School Roman Catholic Bishop of Orange$19,9001n/a
Africa Schools of Kenya$19,400130%
Homeboy Industries$16,00010%
New Hope Housing Inc$15,92010%
Learning Lab Inc$12,50021%
Project Hope Alliance$12,50010%
Decorative Arts Society$11,20013%
Mission Support Network$7,50013%
Scenic America$7,5001n/a
Saturate Global$7,5001n/a
Teach Democracy$6,00020%
Youth Employment Service of the Harbor Area Inc$5,00011%
Reveal NYC Inc$2,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($390k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Foundation of the Family of Cm and Edna P Cotton supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSanta Catalina Island Conservancy: $109,100 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHermann Park Conservancy: $100,300 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank of Orange County Inc: $84,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetShare Our Selves Corporation: $62,200 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Beacon of Downtown Houston: $37,550 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNewport Beach Junior Lifeguard Foundation: $27,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetAquarium of the Pacific Corporation: $23,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAfrica Schools of Kenya: $19,400 over 1y, 30% of budgetHomeboy Industries: $16,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Hope Housing Inc: $15,920 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLearning Lab Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetProject Hope Alliance: $12,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDecorative Arts Society: $11,200 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetMission Support Network: $7,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTeach Democracy: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYouth Employment Service of the Harbor Area Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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.

Orange County Community FoundationCA16.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · Croul Family Foundation · Argyros Family Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Foundation of the Family of Cm and Edna P Cotton

How much does The Foundation of the Family of Cm and Edna P Cotton give?
The Foundation of the Family of Cm and Edna P Cotton reported 26 grants totaling $796,000 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does The Foundation of the Family of Cm and Edna P Cotton fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Education (29%), Environment (25%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
Who are The Foundation of the Family of Cm and Edna P Cotton's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Santa Catalina Island Conservancy ($109k), Hermann Park Conservancy ($100k), Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County Inc ($84k).
Does The Foundation of the Family of Cm and Edna P Cotton fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 77% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Foundation of the Family of Cm and Edna P Cotton 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 Foundation of the Family of Cm and Edna P Cotton?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Orange County Community Foundation, Croul Family Foundation, Argyros Family Foundation.
Where is The Foundation of the Family of Cm and Edna P Cotton based?
The Foundation of the Family of Cm and Edna P Cotton is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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