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Cooper Clark Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k73 grants · $204k
- $10k–50k34 grants · $684k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $340k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| GENOA FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT | $62,280 |
| WALSH HEALTHCARE CENTER | $60,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $60,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $57,900 |
| Individual grant recipient | $44,611 |
| Individual grant recipient | $43,735 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| STRATTON SCHOOL DISTRICT | $40,000 |
| CROW LUTHER CULTURAL EVENTS CENTER | $37,500 |
| COUNTRY LIVING LEARNING CENTER | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $26,330 |
| KARVAL COMMUNITY ALLIANCE | $25,500 |
| SEWARD COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING | $25,000 |
| BAKERS ARTS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $278k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
106 repeat relationships — 77 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 26 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $425k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- KCKIT CARSON RURAL DEVELOPMENT3× · 2021–2025 · $82k · revenue +25%
- LBLIBERAL BASEBALL ASSOCIATION5× · 2021–2025 · $23k · revenue +180%
- HCHASKELL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Haskell County Historical Society2× · 2022–2023 · $16k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- SFSTRATTON FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICTone grant, 2023 · $100k
- GSGOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETYone grant, 2021 · $75k
- WFWALSH FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2024 · $75k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The museum collects and preserves memorabilia of cowley county, kansas. the museum is open to the public during scheduled hours, and is staffed by a combination of volunteers and staff.
Senior center
Provide and showcase historical information about Seward County.
Holt co history
Public charity
Engage in educational, scientific, and governmental efforts to conserve, develop, and improve the use of land, soil, water, plants, animals, and other natural resources within the state of kansas
Preservation study and collection of historical items
To support members in farming
The Center is a single point of entry for people from Otero Bent and Crowley counties with general and emergency needs to find the resources and services available to help them.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas Childrens Service League and the most unlike its peers is Bee Jay's Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 29. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 243 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Baughman Foundation · Rundell Charitable Foundation Trust · SEWARD COUNTY UNITED FUND dba SEWARD COUNTY UNITED WAY · Western Kansas Community Foundation · Finnup Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation Inc · Sunflower Foundation Health Care for Kansans · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Cooper Clark Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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