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Vincent J Coates Foundation
Its FY2024 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $940k
- $250k+2 grants · $750k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND EXOTIC WILDLIFE SANCTUA | $250,000 |
| AUDUBON FLORIDA | $134,000 |
| MICKABOO COMPANION BIRD RESCUE | $110,729 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $100,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AM | $100,000 |
| AUDUBON FLORIDA | $100,000 |
| ASH CREEK CONSERVATION ASSOC | $85,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SW CENT FLORI | $60,000 |
| BEAGLE FREEDOM PROJECT | $50,000 |
| KEYS BESSEMER CENTER | $50,000 |
| SANTA CRUZ NATIVE ANIMAL RESCUE | $50,000 |
| BURROUGHS COMMUNITY CENTER | $50,000 |
| ONE EARTH CONSERVATION | $50,000 |
| UCSC FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
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 (FY22–22, $100k) 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 24% of Vincent J Coates Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +41% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
41 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $291k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BCBURROUGHS COMMUNITY CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $410k · revenue +38%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC4× · 2021–2024 · $300k · revenue +26%- MCMICKABOO COMPANION BIRD RESCUE3× · 2022–2024 · $264k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- ACAUDUBON CORKSCREW SWAMP SANCTUARYone grant, 2021 · $214k
- FPFOSTER PARROTSone grant, 2021 · $200k
- OIORCAS ISLAND FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $160k · revenue +97%
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.
Orca conservancy is working on behalf of orcinus orca, the killer whale, and protecting the wild places on which it depends.
The california wildlife center (cwc) takes responsibility for the protection of all native wildlife through rehabilitiation, education and conservation. as the los angeles area's premier wildlife medical care and rehabilitation facility,…
The wildlife center of the north coast's mission is wildlife rehabilitation, education and research about wildlife and their environments. this organization serves the north and central oregon coasts, the columbia river basin, and…
To identify and address vital environmental issues by providing medical care to injured birds of prey and shorebirds, and through educational, research and conservation initiatives.
Translating science into action to save Southern Resident killer whales from extinction.
The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…
The institute for bird populations enables science-based conservation of species and habitats by studying the abundance, demography, and ecology of birds and other wildlife.
Our mission is to conduct scientific research and education in the fields of mammal biology, animal behavior and pollution ecology to promote environmental protection by providing our findings to the public, managers and other scientists.…
Channel Islands Restoration protects rare and endangered plants and animals by restoring habitat in sensitive and unique natural areas on the California Channel Islands and adjacent mainland. We educate a variety of groups about the value…
The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.
To restore a healthy population of sea otters to the Oregon coast and to thereby make Oregon's marine and coastal ecosystem more robust and resilient.
Klamath bird observatory advances bird and habitat conservation through science, education, and partnerships.
How this is measured
30 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. 30 of the 78 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 ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BURROUGHS COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MICKABOO COMPANION BIRD RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Kids Empowered by Your Support Inc ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC ↗
- Who funds ORCAS ISLAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ONE EARTH CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds NATIVE ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Siskiyou Land Conservancy ↗
- Who funds Ash Creek Conservation Assoc Inc ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORK BRIDGEPORT INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds OPAL COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds ORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CASCADES RAPTOR CENTER ↗
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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Orcas Island Community Foundation · The GreerSolien Fund · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Vincent J Coates Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vincent J Coates Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Groundwork Bridgeport Inc: 100% of income from government
- Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants Inc: 37% of income from government
How this is measured
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