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Cooper-Newell Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
97% of Cooper-Newell Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Cooper-Newell Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 24 organizations, $1M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $270k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $500k
- $250k+1 grant · $326k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL NORDIC MUSEUM | $325,600 |
| NORTHWEST MARITIME CENTER | $200,000 |
| EARTHJUSTICE | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| GRIST MAGAZINE INC | $50,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER WASHINGTON AND NORTH IDAHO | $50,000 |
| VOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT | $25,000 |
| RENEWABLE NORTHWEST PROJECT | $25,000 |
| NORTHWEST ABORTION ACCESS FUND | $25,000 |
| WASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND | $25,000 |
| LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND | $25,000 |
| EARLY MUSIC GUILD OF SEATTLE | $25,000 |
| COMMON POWER FUTURE | $25,000 |
| SUNSET HILL COMMUNITY HALL | $25,000 |
| JEFFERSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $20,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
24 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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
- NMNORTHWEST MARITIME CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +361%
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC7× · 2017–2023 · $250k · revenue +80%- JCJEFFERSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY5× · 2018–2024 · $62k · revenue +53%
Funded once
College Unboundgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +33%- AACLUone grant, 2023 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $15k
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.
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…
Washington wild protects and restores wild lands and waters in washington state through advocacy, education and civic engagement.
The Center for Environmental Law & Policy is a statewide organization whose mission is to protect, preserve and restore Washington's waters through education, advocacy, policy reform, and public interest litigation.
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
Nedc's mission is to work toward a future in which the pacific northwest leads the nation in developing, implementing & enforcing strong laws and regulations that protect the environment & human health, and where our governments &…
Our mission is to advocate for environmental progress and justice through actions that mobilize the public, elect champions for the environment, and hold our leaders accountable.
To protect and extend civil liberties and civil rights by supporting the aclu-wa foundation.
The museum of northwest art collects, preserves, interprets and exhibits art created in the pacific northwest, supports artists, and strives to integrate art into the lives of all people. the museum is free and open to the public seven…
To bring people, communities, and resources together to ensure waterfront park thrives as a vibrant gathering space - uplifting locals, fostering connections and honoring seattle's natural beauty and stories.
Amazon conservation unites science, people, and innovation to protect the amazon - the greatest wild forest on earth. as guardians of the most iconic forest on the planet, we bring together the power of the latest science and technology…
Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Maritime Center and the most unlike its peers is Medieval Womens Choir. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 55 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds National Nordic Museum ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST MARITIME CENTER ↗
- Who funds WAKEFIELD MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds College Unbound ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER WASHINGTON AND NORTH IDAHO ↗
- Who funds Grist Magazine Inc ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds Sunset Hill Community Hall ↗
- Who funds RENEWABLE NORTHWEST PROJECT DBA RENEWABLE NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds COMMON POWER FUTURE ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST ABORTION ACCESS FUND ↗
- Who funds The Early Music Guild of Seattle ↗
- Who funds VOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUND GENERATIONS ↗
- Who funds PUGET SOUNDKEEPER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON WOMEN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ELI WHITNEY MUSEUM 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.
Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Bullitt Foundation · Artsfund · The Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation · Raikes Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Kaleidoscope Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Patagoniaorg · The Burning 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-Newell 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Cambridge School Volunteers Inc — 14% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Chinese Culture Connection Inc — 2% of income from government
- Eli Whitney Museum Inc — 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.