FundersCalifornia

Codding Foundation

Cotati, CA · EIN 94-6089419. Reported 98 grants totalling $746,722 to 64 organizations across tax years 2023-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$3,000median grant
$746,722granted, 2023-2024
64organizations funded
33%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,432,071assets, 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. Codding Foundation 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 $3,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $120 and the largest $50,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
11 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
45 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
16 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
17 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
3 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
6 grants

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
Museum of Sonoma CountySanta Rosa, CA$60,350622024
The Living RoomSanta Rosa, CA$60,000222024
Child Parent InstituteSanta Rosa, CA$50,000112024
Childrens' Museum of Sonoma CoSanta Rosa, CA$50,000112024
Santa Rosa Memorial Hosptical FoundationSanta Rosa, CA$50,000112024
Sf Library FundSanta Rosa, CA$50,000112024
The ZonesSanta Rosa, CA$50,000112024
Sonoma County Children's CharitiesSanta Rosa, CA$30,000222024
Ceres Community ProjectSebastopol, CA$25,000112023
Laguna De Santa Rosa FoundationSanta Rosa, CA$25,000522024
Ssu - Green Music CenterRohnert Park, CA$20,000112023
Gmc-SsuRohnert Park, CA$18,050212024
YWCASanta Rosa, CA$14,100212024
Roseland Schlorship FundSanta Rosa, CA$12,650212024
Catholic CharitiesSanta Rosa, CA$12,500212024
Pepperwood FoundationSanta Rosa, CA$12,000212023
Pdi Surgery CenterWindsor, CA$11,332322024
Career Technical EducationSanta Rosa, CA$10,000112024
Children's Museum of Sonoma CountySanta Rosa, CA$10,000112023
Family Justice CenterSanta Rosa, CA$10,000112024
Roseland Charter SchoolSanta Rosa, CA$10,000112023
Santa Rosa Community HealthSanta Rosa, CA$10,000112023
Santa Rosa Community Health CentersSanta Rosa, CA$10,000112024
St Vincent De PaulRohnert Park, CA$10,000112023
The Zones (boys & Girls Club)Santa Rosa, CA$10,000112023
WomenserveRohnert Park, CA$9,950212024
YWCA Sonoma CountySanta Rosa, CA$9,250212023
Redwood Empire Food BankSanta Rosa, CA$9,000322024
Social Advocates for YouthSanta Rosa, CA$8,830112023
Career Technical Education 6923Santa Rosa, CA$5,000112023
Free to BeSanta Rosa, CA$5,000112023
Legal AidSanta Rosa, CA$5,000112024
Sonoma County Parks FoundationSanta Rosa, CA$5,000112023
Tlc Child & Family ServicesSanta Rosa, CA$5,000112024
Women's Recovery ServicesSanta Rosa, CA$5,000112024
Listening for a ChangeSanta Rosa, CA$4,800422024
Fish (friends in Service Here)Santa Rosa, CA$3,000112023
Food for ThoughtForestville, CA$3,000322024
Santa Rosa JR College FoundationSanta Rosa, CA$3,000212023
Ssu on the Green SponssorshipRohnert Park, CA$3,000112023
FishSanta Rosa, CA$2,500112024
Norcal Center for Well BeingSanta Rosa, CA$2,500112024
Rancho Cotate High SchoolRohnert Park, CA$2,500112023
Norcal Public MediaRohnert Park, CA$2,000222024
OkizuNovato, CA$2,000222024
Sebastopol Center for the ArtsSebastopol, CA$2,000222024
Women's Recovery Services 41223Santa Rosa, CA$2,000112023
Srjc FoundationSanta Rosa, CA$1,540212024
Farm to PantryHealdsburg, CA$1,200112023
Community Foundation of Sonoma CountySanta Rosa, CA$1,125112023
Community Foundation Sonoma CoSanta Rosa, CA$1,125112024
10000 DegreesSan Rafael, CA$1,000112023
Boys & Girls Club of MarinsonomaSanta Rosa, CA$1,000112024
Charles M Schulz MuseunSanta Rosa, CA$1,000212023
Council on AgingSanta Rosa, CA$1,000112024
Navy Seabee FoundationSpringfield, VA$1,000112024
Pepperwood PreserveSanta Rosa, CA$1,000112024
Redwood Gospel MissionSanta Rosa, CA$1,000112023
Salvation ArmyAtlanta, GA$1,000112023
Salvation ArmyCity of Industry, CA$1,000112024
Village Network of PetalumaPetaluma, CA$1,000112024
Kid Scoop NewsSonoma, CA$800222024
Charles Schulz MuseumSanta Rosa, CA$500112024
Sonoma County Conservation ActionSanta Rosa, CA$120112024

12 of 64 (19%) received money in more than one year over the 2 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 33%, across 1 year-to-year transition. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. 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.

Plus 6 grants to individuals totalling $828,950 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

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 57 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Arts & Culture
14 grants
Human Services
12 grants
Education
8 grants
Food & Nutrition
7 grants
Youth Development
2 grants
Environment
2 grants
Health Care
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202345$281,929$3,000
202453$464,793$3,050

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. 100% of this one's giving went to organizations in California. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

California
$745K
Georgia
$1K
Virginia
$1K

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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.

Sonoma County Community Foundation26 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc23 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund23 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust19 shared recipientsThe Heck Foundation16 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc15 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $3,000. 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 California.
  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 Codding Foundation'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: Po Box 7087, Cotati, CA, 94931. 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 94-6089419 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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