· Private foundation
Cooper Foundation Inc
Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k18 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $190k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA | $115,378 |
| AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $15,100 |
| ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN | $10,000 |
| HIGH MUSEUM OF ART | $8,000 |
| THE TEMPLE | $6,003 |
| JEWISH WOMEN'S FUND OF ATLANTA | $6,000 |
| OUR HOUSE | $5,000 |
| AHAVATH ACHIM CONGREGATION | $4,160 |
| GEORGIA AQUARIUM | $3,754 |
| THE ATLANTA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| MEDSHARE | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| CONGREGATION OR HADASH | $540 |
| THE BETTIE BRAND MOTHER'S ENDOWMENT | $125 |
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 (FY19–19, $225) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
10 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2019, 2 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k 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
- TATHE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC2× · 2017–2019 · $20k · revenue +226%
- GAGEORGIA AQUARIUM INC & SUBSIDIARY2× · 2017–2019 · $9k · revenue +77%
- TATHE ATLANTA WOMENS FOUNDATION INC2× · 2018–2019 · $8k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- GDGILEE DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $35k
- SCSWARTHMORE COLLEGE ALUMNI FUNDone grant, 2018 · $10k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELone grant, 2018 · $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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Holy Angels Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blue Dove Foundation 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 28 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% 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 15% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 42 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA AQUARIUM INC & SUBSIDIARY ↗
- Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ATLANTA WOMENS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALFRED AND ADELE DAVIS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FELICIA PENZELL WEBER JEWISH COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MOMENTUM UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds MEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN JEWISH RESOURCE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds CREATING CONNECTED COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds BETTIE BRAND MOTHERS EMPOWERMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Blue Dove Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HOLY ANGELS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
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: Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Zaban Foundation Inc · Cooper Family Foundation Inc · The Allan & Melanie Nelkin Foundation Inc · The Engel Foundation Inc · The Frank Family Foundation Inc · The Marcus Foundation Inc · Horowitz Family Foundation Inc · Henry and Etta Raye Hirsch Heritage Foundation Inc · Rosenberg Family Foundation Inc · Luci and Stan Sunshine Family 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 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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