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Cooper Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$20k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
23
Grants FY2025
18
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$500
Largest grant, FY2025
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 18
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
10
Total assets, FY2025
$264k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Cooper Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 47% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureEducationHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentHuman 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving21$15k24%
FY202418$13k33%
FY202312$12k42%
FY202218$9k44%
FY202114$15k57%
FY202011$9k45%
FY20199$13k56%
FY20188$11k88%
86% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$41kHousing & Shelter$28kHealth$18kEducation$13kArts & Culture$10kHuman Services$6kYouth Development$3kCrime & Legal$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
HI

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 24 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($57k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cooper Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHousing Hope: $17,700 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEdmonds Center for the Arts: $2,600 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetChild Advocacy Center of Snohomish County: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAnxiety and Depression Association of America: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArts Council of Snohomish County: $1,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe College of Wooster: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $1,150 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNational Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEverett Public Schools Foundation: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Myeloma Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Women and Democracy: $800 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNapili Kai Foundation: $400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKuow Puget Sound Public Radio: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGood Energy Collective Inc: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSeattle Children's Foundation: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPanthera Corporation: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPathfinder International: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKhan Academy Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrevor Project Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCocoon House: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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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.

Community Foundation of Snohomish CountyWA22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Snohomish County · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Evertrust Foundation · United Way of Snohomish County · Hazel Miller Foundation · Medina Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Howarth Trust Inc · The Whitehorse Foundation · Employees Community Fund of Boeing-Puget Sound · Lucky Seven Foundation

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.

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How do I get to Cooper Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Cooper 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.

About Cooper Family Foundation

How much does Cooper Family Foundation give?
Cooper Family Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $19,650 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Cooper Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (29%), Housing & Shelter (20%), Health (13%).
Who are Cooper Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Housing Hope ($18k), The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc ($6k), Edmonds Center for the Arts ($3k).
Does Cooper Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Cooper Family 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 Cooper Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Snohomish County, Puget Sound Energy Foundation, Seattle Foundation.
Where is Cooper Family Foundation based?
Cooper Family Foundation is based in WA.

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 54 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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