· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| MINNESOTANS MILITARY APPRECIATION FUND | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| COLUMBUS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC | $10,000 |
| CAMP KASEM OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY | $7,000 |
| FAMILY HEART FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| PELOTONIA | $5,000 |
| COLUMBUS ROTARY FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| CURE SANFILIPPO FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| STAND FOR THE SILENT INC | $5,000 |
| MARK BAVIS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SETON HILL UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
- TFTHE FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +1%
DIRECT RELIEFone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +8%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 OHIO WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HUCKLEBERRY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds STARFISH ASSIGNMENT ↗
- Who funds Cure Sanfilippo Foundation ↗
- Who funds GET BEHIND THE BADGE INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds THOMAS WORTHINGTON AND WORTHINGTON KILBOURNE ICE HOCKEY BOOSTERS ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Central Ohio Inc ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY WORTHINGTON RESOURCE CENTER AND FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FORSTER FOUNDATION ↗
- 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 THE FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PROPERTIES IMPACT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS HUMANE ↗
- Who funds MARBURN ACADEMY ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cooper Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cooper Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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