· Private foundation
Cooper Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| UVMMC FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB - BURLINGTON | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CAMP-TA-KUM-TA | $5,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $5,000 |
| UVM HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE | $5,000 |
| KURN HATTIN HOMES | $3,000 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR | $2,000 |
| VERMONT ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND | $2,000 |
| GREATER BURLINGTON YMCA | $2,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +53% since the first grant, against -13% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 43 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 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 FARMS ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds GREATER BURLINGTON YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND KURN HATTIN HOMES ↗
- Who funds LET'S GROW KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds MENTOR Vermont Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT HEALTH NETWORK HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cooper Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cooper Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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