· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| ALICE PJ WANG FOUNDATION | $19,900 |
| MATER DEI HIGH SCHOOL | $19,900 |
| AFRICA SCHOOLS OF KENYA | $19,400 |
| HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES | $16,000 |
| NANTUCKET COMM SAILING PROGRAM | $15,930 |
| NEW HOPE HOUSING | $15,920 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
How this is measured
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
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 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 LEARNING LAB INC ↗
- Who funds Project Hope Alliance ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Foundation of the Family of Cm and Edna P Cotton funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Foundation of the Family of Cm and Edna P Cotton. Bigger dots raise more.
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