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The Richard and Susan Cote Family

Clearwater Beach, FL · EIN 46-7169920. Reported 67 grants totalling $679,749 to 30 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$2,500median grant
$679,749granted, 2021-2024
30organizations funded
80%of grantees funded again the next year
$3,696,775assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. The Richard and Susan Cote Family did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $2,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $100 and the largest $105,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
9 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
27 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
4 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
19 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
7 grants
$100,000 and Up
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Siena CollegeLoudonville, NY$185,000442024
The New York Women's FoundationNew York, NY$120,775442024
Lehman College Bronx NyBronx, NY$80,000442024
Villanova UniversityVillanova, PA$80,000442024
Clearwater Hope VillageClearwater, FL$55,150442024
St Judes HospitalNew York, NY$50,000442024
Boston CollegeChesnut Hill, MA$40,000442024
Monmouth Cancer Hospital FoundationLong Branch, NJ$15,000332023
St Brendan ChurchClearwater, FL$8,500442024
Ruth Eckerd Hall ClearwaterClearwater, FL$6,960442024
Morton Plant Mead Health Care FoundationClearwater, FL$6,000332024
Boys and Girls Club Monmouth CountyAsbury Park, NJ$4,300222024
The Salvation Army-Emergency Disaster ServicesAtlanta, GA$3,120112024
Academy of St UrsulaBronx, NY$3,018442024
American Cancer SocietyAtlanta, GA$2,500112024
Brian Injury Aliance of NjNorth Brunswick, NJ$2,500112024
Conquer CancerAlexandria, VA$2,500112022
Love You Brian FoundationNorwich, VT$2,094112024
Church of St AdalbertSchenectady, NY$2,000112024
St Michael's ChurchLong Branch, NJ$2,000112024
Bishop Gibbons High SchoolSchenectady, NY$1,515222024
National Museum of World War II AviationColorado Springs, CO$1,010112024
American CancerOklahoma City, OK$1,000112021
ASPCANew York, NY$1,000222022
Broad InstituteCambridge, MA$1,000112023
E&y Foundation (for Ukraine)New York, NY$1,000112022
Womens Who CodeAtlanta, GA$1,000112021
Norte Dame - Bishop Gibbons High SchoolSchenectady, NY$500112022
Planned ParenthoodNew York, NY$207112023
Neuroendocrine Cancer AwarenessIndian Land, SC$100112021

15 of 30 (50%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 80%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 14 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
8 grants
Medical Research
2 grants
Animal Welfare
2 grants
Health Care
1 grant
Arts & Culture
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202115$211,400$5,000
202216$140,800$3,750
202316$150,400$3,750
202420$177,149$2,500

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 65% of this one's giving went to organizations in New York. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

New York
$445K
Pennsylvania
$80K
Florida
$77K
Massachusetts
$41K
New Jersey
$24K
Georgia
$7K
Virginia
$2K
Vermont
$2K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund6 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc4 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc4 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc4 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program4 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust4 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,500. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New York.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from The Richard and Susan Cote Family's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 1560 Gulf Boulevard PH3, Clearwater Beach, FL, 33767. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 46-7169920 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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