· Private foundation
Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $285k
- $50k–250k16 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $150,000 |
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY | $125,000 |
| ROGER BALDWIN FOUNDATION ACLU IL | $125,000 |
| ILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM | $100,500 |
| JEWISH UNITED FUND | $100,100 |
| JEWISH CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICE | $100,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF IL | $100,000 |
| US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $100,000 |
| THE ARK | $75,000 |
| WRITERS THEATRE | $60,000 |
| KESHET | $53,100 |
| EQUALITY ILLINOIS EDUCATION PROJECT | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $50,000 |
| CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $226k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
55 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- CCCARLETON COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +39%
- TUThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum7× · 2018–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +16%
- WTWriters Theatre Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +8%
Funded once
- ICIL COVID 19 RESCUE FUNDone grant, 2020 · $500k
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +44%- ICIL COALITION IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Public Media Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ultimate Peace Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
49 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. 49 of the 84 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 CARLETON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds Writers Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds TIMELINE THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds THE ROGER BALDWIN FOUNDATION OF ACLU INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds KESHET ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds THE SELFHELP HOME INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds LEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ARTS FOR THE CITY INC ↗
- Who funds ORT AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS CHICAGO ↗
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: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Mary K and Daniel M Kelly Family Foundation C/O Dan Kelly · Bookey Family Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · The Independent Charitable Gift Fund · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Baird Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation 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.
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