Vermont · Private foundation
Cooper Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $135k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $65,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 28
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Cooper Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 51% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 22 | $134k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $119k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $331k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $119k | 9% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $126k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $100k | 68% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $98k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Vermont and State Agricultural College Foundation Inc | $80,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Ltd | $67,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Marco Presbyterian Church | $50,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Parks Foundation of Burlington Inc | $26,000 | 2 | 14% |
| Vermonts Camp Ta-Kum-Ta | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Lake Champlain Community Sailing Center Inc | $17,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Boys and Girls Club of Burlington Inc | $15,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Vermont Historical Society | $13,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $12,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The University of Vermont Medical Center | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 21 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($643k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cooper Family Foundation Inc 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.
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How this is measured
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About Cooper Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Cooper Family Foundation Inc give?
- Cooper Family Foundation Inc reported 23 grants totaling $135,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 28 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Cooper Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (46%), Housing & Shelter (11%), Education (10%).
- Who are Cooper Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: University of Vermont and State Agricultural College Foundation Inc ($80k), Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Ltd ($67k), Marco Presbyterian Church ($50k).
- Does Cooper Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cooper Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Cooper Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Vermont Community Foundation, National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc, George W Mergens Foundation.
- Where is Cooper Family Foundation Inc based?
- Cooper Family Foundation Inc is based in VT.
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