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Cooper Family Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$2.4MArts & Culture$416kPhilanthropy$268kPublic Benefit$248kSocial Science$237kAnimals$190kHuman Services$126kPublic Safety & Disaster$125kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $63k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $735k
  • $250k+2 grants · $666k
$100,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CREATIVETS$400,000
UNIVERSITY OF BUCKINGHAM$266,000
GEORGE W BUSH PRESIDENTIAL CENTER$200,000
BEACON RESCUE$125,000
FELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION$100,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE$100,000
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY$60,000
JACK MILLER CENTER$50,000
UGA FOUNDATION$37,500
THEM BEFORE US$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $72k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FOR OTHERS COLLECTIVE: $36k → 4%JOHNNY MACSOLDIERS FUND: $500 → 4%FOR OTHERS COLLECTIVE: $25k → 4%YOUTH VILLAGES: $1k → 14%MOTHER TO MOTHER: $5k → 14%ALIVE HOSPICE: $4k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
MA
PA
CA
UT
WV
VA
AZ
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.8M · 18 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
41

Total granted

$2.8M
$573k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+41%

Still filing today

83%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $966k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsArts & CulturePublic BenefitOther

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

  • EU
    Emory University
    3× · 2017–2019 · $300k · revenue +80%
  • THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE
    3× · 2022–2025 · $250k · revenue +13%
  • WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2017–2025 · $230k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • MC
    Mercatus Center Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -33%
  • SN
    SEMINAR NETWORK TRUST
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
  • AA
    ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · $48k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
4
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
5
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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6
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
7
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
8
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
9
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
10
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
11
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

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12
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Consumers' Research Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bakers National Education Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChristian Missionary Organi…Government Accountability R…Public University Foundatio…Child and Family ServicesIndependent K-8 SchoolsFallen First Responder Supp…Veteran Support ServicesCommunity Arts OrganizationsDomestic Violence Crisis Se…Hospice Care ServicesEducation Equity LeadershipFaith-Based Senior LivingLand Conservation Organizat…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Health Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%28%10–20yr16%37%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%14%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/45
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,520

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.

04the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 67 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
36/45
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION — $865,000 · EducationTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATIONEmory University — $300,000 · EducationEmory UniversityWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY — $230,000 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITYTHE SEMINAR NETWORK INC — $225,000 · EducationTHE SEMINAR NETWORK INCFRANKLIN ROAD ACADEMY INC — $165,000 · EducationFRANKLIN ROAD ACADEMY INCTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $110,000 · EducationWashington and Lee University — $85,000 · Education+5 more — $105,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF BUCKINGHAM — $266,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF BUCKINGHAMZOO ATLANTA — $190,000 · OtherZOO ATLANTAIndividual grant recipient — $150,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · OtherFELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION INCSEMINAR NETWORK TRUST — $100,000 · OtherSEMINAR NETWORK TRUSTJACK MILLER CENTER — $50,000 · OtherALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION — $48,000 · Other+33 more — $300,373 · Other+33 moreCREATIVETS — $400,000 · Arts & CultureCREATIVETSCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART — $14,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $1,700 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE — $250,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PHILAN…Beacon Rescue — $125,000 · PhilanthropyBeacon Res…SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · PhilanthropySHEPHERD C…CONSUMERS' RESEARCH INC — $158,000 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $25,000 · Public Benefit+1 more — $5,000 · Public BenefitMercatus Center Inc — $100,000 · Social ScienceFOR OTHERS COLLECTIVE INC — $61,000 · Human ServicesMOTHER TO MOTHER INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesALIVE HOSPICE INC — $4,000 · Human Services+2 more — $1,500 · Human Services
Education$2,085,000Other$1,204,373Arts & Culture$415,700Philanthropy$405,000Public Benefit$188,000Social Science$100,000Human Services$71,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION — $865,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCREATIVETS — $400,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetEmory University — $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE — $250,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY — $230,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEMINAR NETWORK INC — $225,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRANKLIN ROAD ACADEMY INC — $165,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCONSUMERS' RESEARCH INC — $158,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $110,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercatus Center Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWashington and Lee University — $85,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION — $67,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOR OTHERS COLLECTIVE INC — $61,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCEARCH — $20,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART — $14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetInstitute for Humane Studies — $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOLDEN ISLES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $12,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetOAK HILL SCHOOL — $10,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWESLEY WOODS INC — $6,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTHE RELEVATE GROUP INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBEACON CENTER OF TENNESSEE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMOTHER TO MOTHER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALIVE HOSPICE INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHISTLE FARMS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAgape Community Center — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $1,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEAD PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH VILLAGES INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIPP NASHVILLE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBakers National Education Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS MEMORIAL FUND INC — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

The Community Foundat…Servant FoundationChristian Community F…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Dettwiller FoundationNatl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Raymond James Charita…
The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN19.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Servant Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Dettwiller Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund

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 Family Charitable Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 67 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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