Illinois · 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.
- $1.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 43
- Grants FY2025
- 44
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 50
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $15M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 42 | $1.7M | 10% |
| FY2024 | 44 | $2.7M | 11% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $1.8M | 10% |
| FY2022 | 50 | $1.9M | 28% |
| FY2021 | 47 | $2.0M | 21% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $3.3M | 3% |
| FY2019 | 38 | $2.6M | 8% |
| FY2018 | 37 | $2.1M | 11% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carleton College | $2,150,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $1,475,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Writers Theatre Inc | $1,310,000 | 8 | 6% |
| Timeline Theatre Company | $1,068,000 | 9 | 6% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $910,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $767,718 | 9 | 0% |
| The Roger Baldwin Foundation of ACLU Inc | $750,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $665,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Chicago Public Media Inc | $650,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $400,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 51 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($9.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation
- How much does Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation give?
- Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation reported 43 grants totaling $1,656,850 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 50 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (35%), Civil Rights (15%), Education (12%).
- Who are Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Carleton College ($2.1M), The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ($1.5M), Writers Theatre Inc ($1.3M).
- Does Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Mary K and Daniel M Kelly Family Foundation C/O Dan Kelly, Bookey Family Foundation.
- Where is Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation based?
- Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation is based in IL.
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