· Private foundation
Bertrand Hopper Memorial Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $289k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRISTIAN COUNTY YMCA | $48,923 |
| TAYLORVILLE COMMUNITY UNIT SCHOOLS DIST 3 | $39,500 |
| LINCOLN LAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $25,300 |
| HOWARD YOUNG FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| DO NO HARM | $20,000 |
| PARENTS DEFENDING EDUCATION | $20,000 |
| PROVIDENCE SAINT JOHNS HEALTH CENTER | $20,000 |
| TAYLORVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| SHARP LITERACY | $10,000 |
| CHRISTIAN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | $10,000 |
| TAYLORVILLE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FOND DU LAC AREA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| TEXAS HILL COUNTRY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHRISTIAN COUNTY CEO PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| SCHOLL COMMUNITY IMPACT GROUP | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $333k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% 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.
23 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 5 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION6× · 2020–2025 · $231k · revenue +52%
- HYHOWARD YOUNG FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2025 · $155k · revenue +23%
- DEDEFENDING EDUCATION5× · 2021–2025 · $110k · revenue +109%
Funded once
- CCCHRISTIAN COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +44%
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSSone grant, 2022 · $25k
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +53%
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
28 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. 28 of the 48 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 YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HOWARD YOUNG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DEFENDING EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN LAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHARP LITERACY INC ↗
- Who funds Christian County Economic Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds DO NO HARM ↗
- Who funds TAYLORVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCHOLL COMMUNITY IMPACT GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TAYLORVILLE DEVELOPMENT ASSOCI ↗
- Who funds THE HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN STUDIO ↗
- Who funds FOND DU LAC AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds PALISADES CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds MAHOMET AREA YOUTH CLUB ↗
- Who funds THE NEW DAY CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DECATUR AND MID IL ↗
- Who funds SWIM WITH HEART ↗
- Who funds PALISADES HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB ↗
- Who funds Bucknell University ↗
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: American Endowment Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Baird Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bertrand Hopper Memorial Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bertrand Hopper Memorial Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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