Alabama · Private foundation
Cooper Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $682k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2024
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 48%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 23
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $13M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 48% of the organizations Cooper Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 34 | $682k | 59% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $285k | 48% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $200k | 61% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $175k | 90% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $59k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $65k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cathedral Church of the Advent | $300,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Rooted Ministries Inc | $250,000 | 5 | 8% |
| Renew Birmingham | $57,500 | 1 | 7% |
| Crimson Tide Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mountain Brook First Responder Fdn | $50,000 | 1 | 18% |
| Baptist Health Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Quarterbacking Children's Health Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Legacy Ministries | $23,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Unless U Inc | $21,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Triumph of Hope | $20,000 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 52 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($343k), 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.
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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: The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Altecstyslinger Foundation · The Hackney Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Ernest G & Cecil B Williams Foundation · Nall-Whatley Foundation · Debardeleben Foundation Inc · Robert R Meyer Foundation · The Maynard Nexsen Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Hill Crest Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Cooper Family Foundation
- How much does Cooper Family Foundation give?
- Cooper Family Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $681,600 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 23 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Cooper Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (48%), Health (14%), Recreation & Sports (11%).
- Who are Cooper Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Cathedral Church of the Advent ($300k), Rooted Ministries Inc ($250k), Renew Birmingham ($58k).
- Does Cooper Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cooper Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Cooper Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, Altecstyslinger Foundation.
- Where is Cooper Family Foundation based?
- Cooper Family Foundation is based in AL.
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