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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF EDUCATION | $20,000 |
| THOMAS WORTHINGTON AND WORTHINGTON KILBOURNE ICE HOCKEY BOOSTERS | $10,350 |
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| COLUMBUS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC | $10,000 |
| MINNESOTANS MILITARY APPRECIATION FUND | $10,000 |
| CAMP KASEM OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY | $7,000 |
| MARK BAVIS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SETON HILL UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| NAKM FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY SOFTBALL | $5,000 |
| FREE TO SMILE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FAMILY HEART FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| APPALACHIA OHIO ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| PELOTONIA | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +45% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- FOFRIENDS OF EDUCATION8× · 2018–2025 · $123k · revenue +94%
- MMMINNESOTANS' MILITARY APPRECIATION FUND8× · 2018–2025 · $85k · revenue +91%
- FTFREE TO SMILE FOUNDATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $70k · revenue +108%
Funded once
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OH KY & INone grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue +6%
DIRECT RELIEFone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +8%- TFTHE FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +1%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Oh Ky & in and the most unlike its peers is Working Canine Foundation Inc. 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 32 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
41 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. 41 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 FRIENDS OF EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTANS' MILITARY APPRECIATION FUND ↗
- Who funds FREE TO SMILE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS ICE HOCKEY CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds GET BEHIND THE BADGE INC ↗
- Who funds HUCKLEBERRY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds STARFISH ASSIGNMENT ↗
- Who funds Cure Sanfilippo Foundation ↗
- Who funds OHIO WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds THOMAS WORTHINGTON AND WORTHINGTON KILBOURNE ICE HOCKEY BOOSTERS ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY WORTHINGTON RESOURCE CENTER AND FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FORSTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Central Ohio Inc ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIA OHIO ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds STAND FOR THE SILENT INC ↗
- Who funds VISTA VILLAGE BUSINESS ASSOCIATION dba DISCOVER VISTA ↗
- Who funds WORKING CANINE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Dwelling Place Project Inc ↗
- Who funds HONOR FLIGHT COLUMBUS INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OH KY & IN ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds THE FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PROPERTIES IMPACT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS HUMANE ↗
- Who funds MARBURN ACADEMY ↗
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: Columbus Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Safelite Foundation · L Brands Foundation · Cardinal Health Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · McKesson Foundation Inc · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Harry C Moores Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The George Foundation · All Life Foundation
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.
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