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Cooney Family Foundation at a glance

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Cooney Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$334k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$118k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$238kArts & Culture$180kHuman Services$65kCrime & Legal$50kYouth Development$33kPhilanthropy$25kFood & Nutrition$3k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $299k
$55,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$8.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY$118,000
SACRED HEART SCHOOL FOUNDATION$76,000
LIBERTY CENTER ASSOC FOR THE ARTS$55,000
ON THE INSIDE$50,000
SEDALIA-PETTIS COUNTY UNITED WAY$25,000
CAMP BLUE SKY$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MERCY REST STOP COALITION: $50k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$253k · 4 repeat orgs$341k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
4

Total granted

$253k
$148k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+107%
+141%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $193k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • LC
    LIBERTY CENTER ASSOCIATION FOR THE ARTS INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $105k · revenue +107%
  • SH
    SACRED HEART SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2024 · $100k
  • CB
    CAMP BLUE SKY INC
    4× · 2019–2024 · $33k

Funded once

  • LC
    LIBERTY CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $75k
  • MS
    MERCY SERVICES UNITED COALITION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -85%
  • SH
    SACRED HEART FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $21k · revenue +141%
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.

04Its field
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 11 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SACRED HEART SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $99,800 · OtherSACRED HEART SCHOOL FOUNDATIONLIBERTY CENTER: $75,000 · OtherLIBERTY CENTERCAMP BLUE SKY INC: $33,312 · OtherCAMP BLUE SKY INCSEDALIA-PETTIS COUNTY UNITED WAY: $25,000 · OtherSEDALIA-PETTIS COUNTY UNITED WAYOPEN DOOR SERVICE CENTER INC: $15,000 · OtherOPEN DOOR SERVICE CENTER INC+1 more: $2,500 · OtherLIBERTY CENTER ASSOCIATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $105,000 · Arts & CultureLIBERTY CENTER ASSOCIATION FO…ON THE INSIDE: $50,000 · Arts & CultureON THE INSIDEROCKHURST UNIVERSITY: $118,000 · EducationROCKHURST UNIVERSITYSACRED HEART FOUNDATION INC: $20,559 · EducationSACRED HEART FOUNDATION IN…MERCY SERVICES UNITED COALITION INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesMERCY SER…
Other$250,612Arts & Culture$155,000Education$138,559Human Services$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROCKHURST UNIVERSITY: $118,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIBERTY CENTER ASSOCIATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $105,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetON THE INSIDE: $50,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetMERCY SERVICES UNITED COALITION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetSEDALIA-PETTIS COUNTY UNITED WAY: $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSACRED HEART FOUNDATION INC: $20,559 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetOPEN DOOR SERVICE CENTER INC: $15,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budget
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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Cooney Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cooney Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Cooney Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Cooney Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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