· Private foundation
Cooper Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $205k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $408k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF THE ADVENT | $150,000 |
| RENEW BIRMINGHAM | $57,500 |
| MOUNTAIN BROOK FIRST RESPONDERS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| ROOTED MINISTRIES | $50,000 |
| CRIMSON TIDE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA | $25,000 |
| QUARTERBACKING CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| UAB O'NEAL COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| TRIUMPH OF HOPE | $20,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC | $15,000 |
| MOUNTAIN BROOK CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| PARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF ALABAMA | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $377k 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
- RMROOTED MINISTRIES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +339%
- LMLEGACY MINISTRIES3× · 2019–2024 · $23k · revenue +9%
- UUUNLESS U INC4× · 2021–2024 · $22k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- AEADVENT EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $60k
- CUCALVIN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +16%
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSS - MIDWEST TORNADOSone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Walk thru the bible (wtb) ignites passion for god's word. by developing a global network of influential pastors and leaders and then resourcing them with tools and training, wtb fulfills its role in the great commission.
The foundation exists to cultivate and administer current and deferred gifts for the benefit of ms united methodist related institutions, agencies, local churches, and other ministries for charitable purposes and support and to educate…
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
Kingdom advisors is a discipleship ministry serving christian financial professionals. the organization encourages, educates, and empowers christian financial professionals with biblical wisdom to be effective disciples of jesus christ in…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
Enhancing and changing lives through fellowship and healthcare missions throughout the world.
Lifewater international is a non-profit christian water development organization dedicated to effectively serving vulnerable children and families by partnering with underserved communities to overcome water poverty.
Wellspring provides a discipleship model for individuals and churches to engage as a part of their overall spiritual development. this is done through retreat and small group experiences and through equipping churches and organizations to…
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mission to the World. 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 30 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 16% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 72 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
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.
- Who funds ROOTED MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds RENEW BIRMINGHAM ↗
- Who funds BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN BROOK FIRST RESPONDER FDN ↗
- Who funds Quarterbacking Children's Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds LEGACY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds UNLESS U INC ↗
- Who funds TRIUMPH OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds CALVIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF ALA ↗
- Who funds Mountain Brook City Schools Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMERS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds BIGLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds NEVERTHIRST INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Kings Home Inc ↗
- Who funds Gold Country Wildlife Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA CATALINA ISLAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CARRYWELL ↗
- Who funds FILTER OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds THE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WOOLLEY INSTITUTE FOR SPOKEN-LANGUAGE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
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: 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
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 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.