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Cooper-Standard Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$64k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
24
Grants FY2025
25
Organizations funded FY2024
64%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 36
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$747
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 64% of the organizations Cooper-Standard Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 71% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsScience & TechYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving24$64k42%
FY202425$79k64%
FY202316$72k69%
FY202236$69k100%
FY20201$520kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$485kEducation$122kHealth$100kYouth Development$24kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kRecreation & Sports$8kScience & Tech$5kPublic Benefit$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
MA
OR
IN
OH
CO
KY
MD
TN
SC
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Henry Ford Health System$50,00010%
University of Michigan$15,00042%
Michigan State University$12,0003n/a
Grand Valley State University$11,0004n/a
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$10,00010%
Michigan Colleges Alliance$10,00010%
Breakthrough T1d$10,00010%
Central Michigan University$9,0004n/a
Motor City Veterans Hockey Association$8,188121%
Hartland Robotics$5,00016%
Show all 32 grantees
All grantees of Cooper-Standard Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Henry Ford Health System$50,00010%
University of Michigan$15,00042%
Michigan State University$12,0003n/a
Grand Valley State University$11,0004n/a
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$10,00010%
Michigan Colleges Alliance$10,00010%
Breakthrough T1d$10,00010%
Central Michigan University$9,0004n/a
Motor City Veterans Hockey Association$8,188121%
Hartland Robotics$5,00016%
Chimera Robotics Boosters$5,0001n/a
Saginaw Valley State University$3,0002n/a
Oakland University$3,0003n/a
Walters State Community College Fin$2,0002n/a
Baldwin Wallace University$2,00020%
Hope College$2,00020%
Kent State University$2,0002n/a
80s Party 4a Purpose$1,5001n/a
John Carroll University$1,00010%
Rochester Christian University$1,00010%
University of Detroit Mercy$1,00010%
The University of Findlay$1,00010%
Northern Michigan University$1,0001n/a
Davenport University$1,00010%
Furman University$1,00010%
Laredo College$1,0001n/a
Alpena Community College$1,0001n/a
Vanderbilt University$1,00010%
Regents of the University of Michigan$1,0001n/a
Indiana Institute of Technology Inc$1,00010%
Western Michigan University$1,0001n/a
Burr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan State$1,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($630k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cooper-Standard Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHenry Ford Health System: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $15,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMichigan Colleges Alliance: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMotor City Veterans Hockey Association: $8,188 over 1y, 21% of budgetHartland Robotics: $5,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetBaldwin Wallace University: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHope College: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJohn Carroll University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Christian University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Detroit Mercy: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Findlay: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDavenport University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFurman University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIndiana Institute of Technology Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Cooper-Standard Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Cooper-Standard Foundation Inc 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.

About Cooper-Standard Foundation Inc

How much does Cooper-Standard Foundation Inc give?
Cooper-Standard Foundation Inc reported 24 grants totaling $64,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 36 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Cooper-Standard Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (38%), Education (9%), Health (8%).
Who are Cooper-Standard Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Henry Ford Health System ($50k), University of Michigan ($15k), Michigan State University ($12k).
Does Cooper-Standard Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 64% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Cooper-Standard Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Cooper-Standard Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Enterprise Holdings Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Cooper-Standard Foundation Inc based?
Cooper-Standard Foundation Inc is based in MI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 75 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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