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Cooper Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
65
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Arts & Culture$1.2MHuman Services$935kEducation$625kInternational$420kCrime & Legal$375kCommunity Improvement$346kHealth$338kYouth Development$294kOther$0
02FY2025 · 65 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $74k
  • $10k–50k49 grants · $862k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$30M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN EN THOMPSON FORUM ON WORLD ISSUES$80,398
UNITED WAY OF LINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY$39,000
NEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION$30,000
SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$27,000
CLYDE MALONE COMMUNITY CENTER$25,000
CENTER FOR PEOPLE$25,000
BRAVEBE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER$25,000
THE HUB CENTRAL ACCESS POINT FOR YOUNG ADULTS$25,000
COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER AND SAUNDERS COUNTY$25,000
RABBLE MILL DBA THE BAY$25,000
NEBRASKA ARTS COUNCIL DEVELOPMENT CORP$25,000
CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE ADVANCEMENT$25,000
HOPE SPOKE$25,000
INDIAN CENTER INC$20,000
HUMANITIES NEBRASKA$20,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $521k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%POVERTY IMPACT NETWORK INC: $10k → 11%SHARE A FARE INC: $10k → 12%NEBRASKA INDIAN CHILD WELFARE COALITION: $30k → 16%SHARE A FARE INC: $8k → 12%YWCA LINCOLN: $15k → 13%NEBRASKA INDIAN CHILD WELFARE COALITION: $15k → 16%YWCA LINCOLN: $10k → 13%GIVE NEBRASKA: $9k → 13%GIVE NEBRASKA: $8k → 13%GIVE NEBRASKA: $7k → 13%GIVE NEBRASKA: $7k → 13%GIVE NEBRASKA: $7k → 13%CENTER FOR LEGAL IMMIGRATION ASSISTANCE: $20k → 12%GIVE NEBRASKA: $7k → 13%COMMUNITY SERVICES FUND OF NEBRASKA: $6k → 13%COMMUNITY SERVICES FUND OF NEBRASKA: $6k → 13%YWCA LINCOLN: $20k → 13%YWCA LINCOLN: $20k → 13%YWCA LINCOLN: $10k → 13%VISIONARY YOUTH: $15k → 13%VISIONARY YOUTH: $15k → 13%VISIONARY YOUTH: $10k → 13%FOSTER CARE CLOSET: $20k → 13%FOSTER CARE CLOSET: $20k → 13%NEBRASKA TRIBES ADDRESSING VIOLENCE COALITION: $20k → 13%NEBRASKA TRIBES ADDRESSING VIOLENCE COALITION: $15k → 13%WELLBEING INITIATIVE: $10k → 13%THE HUB CENTRAL ACCESS POINT FOR YOUNG ADULTS: $25k → 13%EL CENTRO DE LAS AMERICAS: $20k → 13%INDIAN CENTER INC: $20k → 13%INDIAN CENTER INC: $15k → 13%THE HUB CENTRAL ACCESS POINT FOR YOUNG ADULTS: $10k → 13%EL CENTRO DE LAS AMERICAS: $10k → 13%INDIAN CENTER INC: $10k → 13%CENTER FOR LEGAL IMMIGRATION ASSISTANCE: $20k → 13%THE HUB CENTRAL ACCESS POINT FOR YOUNG ADULTS: $2k → 13%CENTER FOR LEGAL IMMIGRATION ASSISTANCE: $15k → 13%CENTER FOR LEGAL IMMIGRATION ASSISTANCE: $15k → 13%CENTER FOR LEGAL IMMIGRATION ASSISTANCE: $10k → 13%CENTER FOR LEGAL IMMIGRATION ASSISTANCE: $1k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.1M · 111 repeat orgs$757k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

111 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2025, 62 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

111
58

Total granted

$5.1M
$599k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+24%

Still filing today

81%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $158k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthCivil RightsEnvironmentOther

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

  • MC
    MALONE COMMUNITY CENTER
    7× · 2019–2025 · $240k · revenue ×19
  • RM
    RABBLE MILL
    5× · 2019–2023 · $230k · revenue +379%
  • LC
    LINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER
    5× · 2019–2025 · $93k · revenue +156%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN PLATTE BASIN TIMELAPSE
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • LP
    LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN COLLEGE OF JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATIO
    one grant, 2022 · $28k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Lincoln County Community Development Corporation

To promote, facilitate and develop or co-develop affordable housing in lincoln county, nebraska.

Philanthropy
2
Lincoln University Aka Lincoln College

Lincoln college uniquely empowers students to realize their full potential

Education
3
Leading Age Nebraska

The organization's mission is to expand the world of possibilities for aging through advocacy, collaboration, and education.

Housing & Shelter
4
Lincoln Area Chamber of Commerce

To Market Lincoln as the area of choice in which to live and do business, by attracting, assisting, retaining and promoting our members

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5
Nebraska State Education Association

The mission of the nebraska state education association is to advocate for all education professionals, emplowering them to provide an excellent public education for every student.

Employment
6
Nebraska Votes

The organization's purpose is to ensure a fair and modern democracy in nebraska through research, education, and advocacy for policies and practices that promote participation in democracy.

Civil Rights
7
One Omaha

One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.

Community Improvement
8
Nebraska City Tourism & Commerce Inc

Promotion of tourism, business, industry and history in the community of nebraska city, ne

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9
Nebraska Safety Council

Provide education and leadership to empower people to live safe and healthy.

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10
Urban League of Nebraska

The mission of the urban league of nebraska is to be an empowering voice in the community advocating for economic self-reliance, parity, power, civil rights and equal opportunity for all (see schedule o). the vision of the urban league of…

Human Services
11
Nebraska Alliance of Child Advocacy Centers

To enhance nebraska's response to child abuse.

Crime & Legal
12
Lincoln Chamber of Commerce

Community development in lincoln, ne

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Civic Nebraska and the most unlike its peers is Voz De Esperanza. 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 32 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%3%<5yr12%10%5–10yr18%17%10–20yr15%23%20–35yr19%27%35–55yr18%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%2%<5yr12%8%5–10yr18%21%10–20yr15%23%20–35yr19%25%35–55yr18%22%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/140
the rest of the field
9%
552/5,962

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.

04the grantee network

136 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 136 of the 187 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
46
Early backer (in before they grew)
133/136
Grantees still filing
96/136
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN EN THOMPSON FORUM ON WORLD ISSUES — $500,242 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN EN THOMPSON FORUM ON WORLD ISSUESMALONE COMMUNITY CENTER — $240,100 · OtherMALONE COMMUNITY CENTERUNITED WAY OF LINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY — $180,397 · Other+112 more — $2,493,025 · Other+112 moreLUX CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $90,000 · Arts & CultureLUX CENTER FOR…ASIAN COMMUNITY AND CULTURAL CENTER — $75,000 · Arts & CultureASIAN COMMUNIT…LINCOLN ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $55,000 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN ORCHES…NEBRASKA WRITERS COLLECTIVE — $55,000 · Arts & CultureNEBRASKA WRITE…Mid-America Arts Alliance — $54,000 · Arts & CultureMid-America Ar…LINCOLN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $52,400 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN CHILDR…THE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WILLA CATH…CEDARS YOUTH SERVICES INC — $40,000 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE — $37,500 · Arts & CultureTHE FOUNDATION FOR LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $35,600 · Arts & CultureSUNRISE COMMUNICATIONS INC — $35,000 · Arts & CultureNEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION — $30,500 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN CROSSROADS FESTIVAL — $30,000 · Arts & CultureMEADOWLARK MUSIC FESTIVAL — $27,500 · Arts & CultureMOURNING HOPE — $26,300 · Arts & Culture+9 more — $86,500 · Arts & Culture+9 moreCENTER FOR LEGAL IMMIGRATION ASSISTANCE — $81,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR…YWCA OF LINCOLN — $75,000 · Human ServicesYWCA OF LI…GIVE NEBRASKA — $55,000 · Human ServicesGIVE NEBRA…INDIAN CENTER INC — $45,000 · Human ServicesINDIAN CEN…NEBRASKA INDIAN CHILD WELFARE COALITION INC — $45,000 · Human ServicesNEBRASKA I…FOSTER CARE CLOSET — $40,000 · Human ServicesFOSTER CAR…VISIONARY YOUTH — $40,000 · Human ServicesVISIONARY …THE HUB - CENTRAL ACCESS POINT FOR YOUNG ADULTS — $37,000 · Human ServicesTHE HUB - …Nebraska Tribes Addressing Violence Coalition — $35,000 · Human ServicesNebraska T…EL CENTRO DE LAS AMERICAS — $30,000 · Human ServicesMATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH — $25,500 · Human ServicesFRIENDSHIP HOME OF LINCOLN INC — $20,000 · Human Services+3 more — $37,500 · Human Services+3 moreLINCOLN LITERACY COUNCIL — $57,100 · EducationDOANE UNIVERSITY — $56,500 · EducationMIDLAND UNIVERSITY — $49,000 · EducationEDUCARE OF LINCOLN INC — $45,000 · EducationNEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $41,500 · EducationSOUTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $37,000 · EducationBellevue University — $24,000 · EducationHASTINGS COLLEGE — $24,000 · EducationCOLLEGE OF SAINT MARY — $24,000 · EducationECHO COLLECTIVE — $22,000 · EducationMENTOR NEBRASKA — $20,000 · EducationBRIGHT LIGHTS INC — $15,000 · Education+5 more — $33,600 · EducationPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE HEARTLAND INC — $72,500 · HealthHOPESPOKE — $70,000 · HealthCENTERPOINTE INC — $40,000 · HealthNEBRASKA TRANSITION COLLEGE — $22,500 · HealthDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION FOR FAMILIES — $12,000 · HealthNo Footprint Too Small Birth and Bereavement Services — $10,000 · HealthAT EASE USA — $10,000 · Health+3 more — $12,600 · HealthRABBLE MILL — $230,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEBRASKA INC — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsLINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER — $92,500 · Crime & LegalLEGAL AID OF NEBRASKA — $45,000 · Crime & LegalBRIDGES TO HOPE — $32,500 · Crime & LegalNEBRASKA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST — $27,500 · Crime & Legal
Other$3,413,764Arts & Culture$780,300Human Services$566,000Education$448,700Health$249,600Recreation & Sports$240,000Crime & Legal$197,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMALONE COMMUNITY CENTER — $240,100 over 7y, 7.4% of budgetRABBLE MILL — $230,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetLINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER — $92,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetLUX CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $90,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetCIVIC NEBRASKA — $87,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetCENTER FOR LEGAL IMMIGRATION ASSISTANCE — $81,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetYWCA OF LINCOLN — $75,000 over 5y, 8.8% of budgetASIAN COMMUNITY AND CULTURAL CENTER — $75,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE HEARTLAND INC — $72,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHOPESPOKE — $70,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR PEOPLE IN NEED — $65,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNEBRASKA HUMANITIES COUNCIL — $64,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE SOLIDAGO CONSERVANCY — $57,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetLINCOLN LITERACY COUNCIL — $57,100 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetDOANE UNIVERSITY — $56,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $55,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetGIVE NEBRASKA — $55,000 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetNEBRASKA WRITERS COLLECTIVE — $55,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetNEBRASKA CULTURAL ENDOWMENT — $54,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetMid-America Arts Alliance — $54,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC — $53,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLINCOLN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $52,400 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetLINCOLN ARTS COUNCIL — $50,250 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetTHE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMIDLAND UNIVERSITY — $49,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetINDIAN CENTER INC — $45,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetLEGAL AID OF NEBRASKA — $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOODS INC — $45,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetNEBRASKA INDIAN CHILD WELFARE COALITION INC — $45,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetEDUCARE OF LINCOLN INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY CROPS — $44,700 over 2y, 12% of budgetLincoln Community Foundation Inc — $42,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $42,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetNEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $41,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY — $40,250 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER AND SAUNDERS COUNTIES — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCEDARS YOUTH SERVICES INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFOSTER CARE CLOSET — $40,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetCENTERPOINTE INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BRIDGE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC — $40,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetVISIONARY YOUTH — $40,000 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetTHE NEBRASKA LAND TRUST INC — $38,500 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetLINCOLN COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE — $37,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetSOUTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $37,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HUB - CENTRAL ACCESS POINT FOR YOUNG ADULTS — $37,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $35,600 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSUNRISE COMMUNICATIONS INC — $35,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetWILLARD COMMUNITY CENTER — $35,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budget
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 MALONE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds RABBLE MILL ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LUX CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds CIVIC NEBRASKA ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR LEGAL IMMIGRATION ASSISTANCE ↗
  • Who funds YWCA OF LINCOLN ↗
  • Who funds ASIAN COMMUNITY AND CULTURAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE HEARTLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPESPOKE ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR PEOPLE IN NEED ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA HUMANITIES COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds THE SOLIDAGO CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds DOANE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds GIVE NEBRASKA ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA WRITERS COLLECTIVE ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA CULTURAL ENDOWMENT ↗
  • Who funds Mid-America Arts Alliance ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN ARTS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds THE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MIDLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds INDIAN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL AID OF NEBRASKA ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOODS INC ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA INDIAN CHILD WELFARE COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds EDUCARE OF LINCOLN INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY CROPS ↗
  • Who funds Lincoln Community Foundation Inc ↗

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.

Lincoln Community Fou…The Sherwood Foundati…Abel FoundationSpreetail FoundationUnited Way of Lincoln…D F Dillon FoundationAssurity Life Foundat…Peter Kiewit Foundati…The Lozier FoundationAcklie Charitable Fou…Duncan Family TrustNebraska Community Fo…
Lincoln Community Foundation IncNE174.8× affinity96 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · The Sherwood Foundation · Abel Foundation · Spreetail Foundation · United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County · D F Dillon Foundation · Assurity Life Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Acklie Charitable Foundation · Duncan Family Trust · Nebraska Community 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 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    47report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Cooper Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Cooper Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 187 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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