· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $50,000 |
| CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA | $50,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $50,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +39% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCCARLETON COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +39%
- TUThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum7× · 2018–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +34%
- 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%- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICAone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
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How this is measured
49 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. 49 of the 84 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 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 ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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