· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k3 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $351k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $425k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOISE PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $159,200 |
| HERMAN PARK CONSERVANCY | $100,300 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF OC | $84,200 |
| CATALINA ISLAND CONSERVANCY | $81,600 |
| SHARE OUR SELVES | $44,200 |
| THE BEACON | $27,050 |
| MARINERS ELEM SCHOOL FDN | $27,000 |
| NEWPORT BEACH JUNIOR LIFEGUARDS FND | $27,000 |
| NEWPORT BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FNDTN | $25,000 |
| MATER DEI HIGH SCHOOL | $19,900 |
| ALICE PJ WANG FOUNDATION | $19,900 |
| AFRICA SCHOOLS OF KENYA | $19,400 |
| HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES | $16,000 |
| NANTUCKET COMM SAILING PROGRAM | $15,930 |
| NEW HOPE HOUSING | $15,920 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $73k) 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.
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.
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.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2022, 5 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $589k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SCSANTA CATALINA ISLAND CONSERVANCY3× · 2017–2022 · $109k · revenue +97%
Share Our Selves Corporation4× · 2017–2022 · $62k · revenue +63%
THE BEACON OF DOWNTOWN HOUSTON3× · 2018–2022 · $38k · revenue +87%
Funded once
- SASCENIC AMERICAgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +163%
- SJST JOSEPH CATHOLIC SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $6k
- NBNEWPORT BEACH JR LIFEGUARDSone grant, 2018 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
California Streets Initiative is a non-profit that practices solutions journalism at its five news websites listed above to educate inform and empower its readers.
The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.
Balboa Park Conservancy (the Conservancy) was organized on November 3, 1923. The Conservancy is the City of San Diegos (the City) partner and advocated for the greater good of Balboa Park (the Park). The Conservancy collaborated with and…
The California Housing Partnership Corporation creates and preserves affordable and sustainable homes for Californians with low incomes by providing expert financial and policy solutions to nonprofit and public partners.
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
The Organizations primary impact is to preserve and enhance San Franciscos unique architectural and cultural identity.
The mission of children's home society of california is to provide children, families, and communities with supportive services to thrive.
The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
Conserving nature through science and discovery.
CH&LA operate to protect the right and interest of the California lodging industry. Legislative advocacy, educational training, communication, and cost-savings programs are provided for all segments of the industry. In addition, CH&LA…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Share Our Selves Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Reveal Nyc Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 35 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 SANTA CATALINA ISLAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Hermann Park Conservancy ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Share Our Selves Corporation ↗
- Who funds THE BEACON OF DOWNTOWN HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT BEACH JUNIOR LIFEGUARD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds AFRICA SCHOOLS OF KENYA ↗
- Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds New Hope Housing Inc ↗
- Who funds Project Hope Alliance ↗
- Who funds LEARNING LAB INC ↗
- Who funds DECORATIVE ARTS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Mission Support Network ↗
- Who funds SCENIC AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Teach Democracy ↗
- Who funds YOUTH EMPLOYMENT SERVICE OF THE HARBOR AREA INC ↗
- Who funds Reveal NYC Inc ↗
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.
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
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 Foundation of the Family of Cm and Edna P Cotton 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.
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.