Kansas · Private foundation
Cooper Clark Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 112
- Grants FY2025
- 96
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 92 to 103
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $15M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Cooper Clark Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $613k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 103 | $1.2M | 25% |
| FY2024 | 96 | $1.5M | 38% |
| FY2023 | 92 | $853k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 103 | $889k | 54% |
| FY2021 | 96 | $1.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stratton Area Foundation 2 Inc | $326,075 | 3 | 83% |
| Satanta Aging Program Inc | $101,291 | 4 | 22% |
| Kit Carson Rural Development | $82,000 | 3 | 14% |
| Stepping Stone Shelter Inc | $78,684 | 5 | 8% |
| Walsh Firefighters Association | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Seward County Community College Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Karvel Community Alliance Inc | $48,500 | 2 | 58% |
| Seward County Historical Society | $44,700 | 2 | 18% |
| Crow-Luther Cultural Events Center | $37,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Liberal Kids Inc | $37,497 | 5 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stratton Area Foundation 2 Inc | $326,075 | 3 | 83% |
| Satanta Aging Program Inc | $101,291 | 4 | 22% |
| Kit Carson Rural Development | $82,000 | 3 | 14% |
| Stepping Stone Shelter Inc | $78,684 | 5 | 8% |
| Walsh Firefighters Association | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Seward County Community College Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Karvel Community Alliance Inc | $48,500 | 2 | 58% |
| Seward County Historical Society | $44,700 | 2 | 18% |
| Crow-Luther Cultural Events Center | $37,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Liberal Kids Inc | $37,497 | 5 | n/a |
| Country Living Learning Center | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Stratton Senior Citizens Inc | $29,869 | 5 | n/a |
| Crossroads Center Inc | $26,899 | 4 | n/a |
| Depot Heritage Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Seward County Council on Aging Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Southwest Medical Center | $23,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Liberal Womens Fastpitch Softball Association | $23,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Liberal Baseball Association | $22,500 | 5 | 8% |
| LIBERAL AREA RAPE CRISIS & dba LARC DVS | $18,847 | 1 | 2% |
| HASKELL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Haskell County Historical Society | $15,690 | 2 | 12% |
| Great Plains Angels for Animals | $15,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Kansas Childrens Service League | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Russell Child Development Center Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Liberal Basketball Association Inc | $13,416 | 3 | n/a |
| Kismet Public Library Foundation | $13,245 | 2 | 40% |
| Little Leaders Learning & Care Center | $12,670 | 1 | 9% |
| Burlington Area Senior Citizens Inc | $12,500 | 1 | n/a |
| The Stratton Area Foundation I | $10,580 | 1 | 9% |
| Bee Jay's Inc | $10,500 | 3 | 5% |
| Morton County Community Coalition | $10,480 | 1 | n/a |
| Santa Fe Trail Council Boy Scouts of America Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Flagler Golf Club Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Liberal Airfair | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Baker Arts Center Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Southeast Colorado Hospital District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Roundhouse Preservation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 35% |
| Prairie Family Center | $9,500 | 5 | 1% |
| The Center Inc | $9,000 | 1 | 83% |
| Your Community Foundation | $9,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kiowa County Economic Development | $8,695 | 1 | 3% |
| Sparrow House Ministries | $8,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Blue Rose Ranch Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 4% |
| Prairie Pines | $7,283 | 1 | 1% |
| Smoky Hills Public Television Corp | $6,450 | 3 | 0% |
| Liberal Volleyball Club | $6,440 | 2 | n/a |
| United Methodist Western Kansas Mexican- American Ministries Inc | $5,806 | 1 | 0% |
| Falcons Booster Club Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Southwest Guidance Center Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| That Liberal Band Boosters Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Flagler Historical Society | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Eastern Plains Animal Welfare Alliance | $4,575 | 2 | n/a |
| Hands for Hope Foundation | $4,500 | 5 | n/a |
| South Church of God | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Moscow Booster Club | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sylvias Fragrance of Hope | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Liberal Kansas Lions Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rainbow Players Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 184 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Cooper Clark Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 31 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: 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
How this is measured
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About Cooper Clark Foundation
- How much does Cooper Clark Foundation give?
- Cooper Clark Foundation reported 112 grants totaling $1,227,567 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 92 and 103 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Cooper Clark Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (19%), Public Safety & Disaster (14%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are Cooper Clark Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Stratton Area Foundation 2 Inc ($326k), Satanta Aging Program Inc ($101k), Kit Carson Rural Development ($82k).
- Does Cooper Clark Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cooper Clark Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Cooper Clark Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Baughman Foundation, Rundell Charitable Foundation Trust, SEWARD COUNTY UNITED FUND dba SEWARD COUNTY UNITED WAY.
- Where is Cooper Clark Foundation based?
- Cooper Clark Foundation is based in KS.
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