· Private foundation
Cooper Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $65,000 |
| MARCO PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| PARKS FOUNDATION OF BURLINGTON | $6,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB - BURLINGTON | $5,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| UVM HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE | $5,000 |
| CAMP-TA-KUM-TA | $5,000 |
| UVMMC FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| KURN HATTIN HOMES | $3,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR | $2,000 |
| VERMONT ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND | $2,000 |
| GREATER BURLINGTON YMCA | $2,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
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 +55% since the first grant, against -15% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2019–2023 · $80k · revenue +42%
- FCFLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LTD6× · 2019–2025 · $67k · revenue +17%
- PFPARKS FOUNDATION OF BURLINGTON INC2× · 2023–2025 · $26k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- NHNCH HEALTHCARE SYSone grant, 2023 · $230k
- NCNAPLES COMPREHENSIVE HEALTHCARE SYSTEMone grant, 2024 · $20k
- CSCommunity Sailing Centerone 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.
To promote trails and greenways and to ensure that people will always have access to the landscape of vermont.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Vcet's purpose is to accelerate innovation and entrepreneurship across vermont. this is accomplished by providing expert mentoring and technical assistance, the operation of coworking/incubation facilities and the operation of early stage…
Vfn's mission is to empower and support all vermont families of children with special needs.
Vermont public informs, educates, and entertains through public service journalism and enlightening content rooted in vermont. our storytelling enriches lives and fosters community connection and understanding.
The mission of the green mountain club is to make the vermont mountains play a larger part in the life of the people by protecting and maintaining the long trail system and fostering, through education, the stewardship of vermont's hiking…
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
Rooted in vermont since 1977, the vermont land trust unites land and lives for the enduring benefit of people and the place we share. we help people protect, care for, and connect to land. this includes the farms, forests, natural areas,…
Echo's mission is to inspire and engage everyone in the joy of scientific discovery, wonder of nature, and care of lake champlain.
The vermont association for the education of young children (vtaeyc) advances equity and excellence in early childhood education with early childhood educators as our foundation. as a membership organization, we provide resources and…
Through flexible, diverse and responsive programs, vermont achievement center, inc. (vac) provides a foundation of life skills to prepare individuals to reach their full potential as contributing members of society. all people are capable…
Giv empowers young people with intensive, hands-on learning experiences in college settings which inspire their academic and creative passions, build confidence and leadership, and expand their sense of possibility.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Ltd and the most unlike its peers is The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 53 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 43 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 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LTD ↗
- Who funds PARKS FOUNDATION OF BURLINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONTS CAMP TA-KUM-TA ↗
- Who funds LAKE CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SAILING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds KING STREET CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VERMONT ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE FARMS ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND KURN HATTIN HOMES ↗
- Who funds GREATER BURLINGTON YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds LET'S GROW KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds MENTOR Vermont Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT HEALTH NETWORK HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE ↗
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 Vermont Community Foundation · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · George W Mergens Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Oakland Foundation Inc · The Argosy Foundation · Peoples United Community Foundation · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation · Antonio B and Rita M Pomerleau Foundation Inc · Td Charitable Foundation · Fanny Allen Corporation
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 Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Mentor Vermont Inc — 58% of income from government
- Vermont Historical Society — 51% of income from government
- King Street Center Inc — 43% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Burlington Inc — 16% of income from government
- Shelburne Museum Inc — 9% of income from government
- Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
- New England Kurn Hattin Homes — 1% of income from government
- The University of Vermont Medical Center — 1% of income from government
- Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Ltd — 0% of income from government
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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