Kansas · Private foundation
Constance M Cooper Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $820k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 92
- Grants FY2024
- 86
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $64,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 58 to 105
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 12
- Total assets, FY2024
- $12M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Constance M Cooper Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 92 | $820k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 86 | $817k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 90 | $933k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 105 | $944k | 37% |
| FY2020 | 98 | $997k | 31% |
| FY2019 | 92 | $1.0M | 28% |
| FY2018 | 100 | $995k | 58% |
| FY2017 | 58 | $712k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rockhurst High School | $340,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Rockhurst University | $214,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Avila University | $197,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts | $175,550 | 7 | 0% |
| The Children's Mercy Hospital | $172,500 | 8 | 0% |
| National Wwi Museum and Memorial | $150,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Literacy Kansas City | $130,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Cristo Rey Kansas City Sisters of Chari Ty of Leavenworth High School | $117,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Operation Breakthrough Inc | $110,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Harvesters - the Community Food Network | $108,500 | 7 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 106 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Constance M Cooper Charitable 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: John J Sullivan Jr Foundation John Houlehan & Mark Henke-Trustees · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · McCullough Family Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · The Sherman Family Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund
How this is measured
Compare Constance M Cooper Charitable Foundation with peer funders
About Constance M Cooper Charitable Foundation
- How much does Constance M Cooper Charitable Foundation give?
- Constance M Cooper Charitable Foundation reported 92 grants totaling $820,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 58 and 105 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Constance M Cooper Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (36%), Health (16%), Religion (10%).
- Who are Constance M Cooper Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Rockhurst High School ($340k), Rockhurst University ($214k), Avila University ($198k).
- Does Constance M Cooper Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Constance M Cooper Charitable 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 Constance M Cooper Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include John J Sullivan Jr Foundation John Houlehan & Mark Henke-Trustees, Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc.
- Where is Constance M Cooper Charitable Foundation based?
- Constance M Cooper Charitable Foundation is based in KS.
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