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Cooper Tire Foundation Inc

$543k
Granted FY2020
73
Grants FY2020
11
States reached
$153k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

53% of Cooper Tire Foundation Inc’s FY2022 grant dollars went to The Findlay-Hancock County Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Cooper Tire Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 39 organizations, $543k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

39
’20
20
’21
0
’22

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2022.

Philanthropy$2.0MCommunity Improvement$114kYouth Development$67kHuman Services$55kFood & Nutrition$55kReligion$28kHealth$26kEmployment$13kOther$0
02FY2020 · 73 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k66 grants · $79k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $374k
$500
Median grant
11
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Benevity$152,968
United Way of Hancock County$110,750
United Way of Greater Texarkana$60,000
Findlay Hancock County Alliance$50,250
Motivate Inc$46,304
United Way of Northeast Mississippi$28,500
Findlay Hancock County Community Foundation$15,250
Marine Toys for Tots$9,000
ACD Distribution$8,907
Texarkana Baptist Children's Home$7,500
Susan G Komen Northwest Ohio$5,000
Runnin WJ Therapeutic Center$3,500
Spectrum of Findlay$3,250
American Heart Association$2,500
American Red Cross of North Central Ohio$2,500
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.

Your US giving — 85% of grant dollars ($2.0M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 15% that went abroad ($354k) is mapped below.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–21, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Gliding Stars: $250 → 13%American Red Cross: $250 → 14%Vantage Aging: $5k → 13%Senior Citizens Services of Texarkana Inc: $5k → 19%Runnin WJ Therapeutic Center: $4k → 19%Runnin WJ Therapeutic Center: $4k → 19%Mission Texarkana: $3k → 19%Mission Texarkana: $2k → 19%Young Men Christians Association - Findlay OH: $3k → 9%Welcome to a New Life: $1k → 9%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.

Which US states your grants reach

WI
NY
OR
OH
CA
KY
VA
TN
NC
DC
MS
TX

Beyond the US — 15% of all-years giving ($354k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Canada$354k · 3 grants

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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 34% of Cooper Tire Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Cooper Tire Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 15% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$873k · 15 repeat orgs$226k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down; 74 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
74

Total granted

$873k
$226k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-9%
+25%

Still filing today

53%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22
Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyHealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • FC
    FINDLAY-HANCOCK COUNTY ALLIANCE
    2× · 2020–2021 · $110k · revenue +25%
  • GS
    Girl Scouts of Western Ohio
    2× · 2020–2021 · $5k · revenue +11%
  • MT
    MISSION TEXARKANA INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $4k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +7%
  • MI
    Motivate Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $46k
  • CC
    CHRISTIAN CLEARING HOUSE
    one grant, 2021 · $25k

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
United Way of Greater Lima Inc

United Way improves lives by uniting the caring power of our community.

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2
Meals On Wheels of Hancock County Inc

Our mission is to help the citizens of hancock county maintain an independent lifestyle through the delivery of nutritious meals in accordance with prescribed dietary needs and provide a point of personal contact with the community.

Food & Nutrition
3
Findlay-Hancock County Alliance Foundation

The findlay-hancock county chamber foundation (dba findlay-hancock county alliance foundation) was created in 1975 for the purpose of receiving and managing charitable funds dedicated toward programs of research, education, and scientific…

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4
Ohio United Way

To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.

Philanthropy
5
United Way of Bucks County

United way of bucks county creates opportunities for quality education, financial stability, and good health to ensure real, lasting change for individuals and our communities.

Philanthropy
6
United Way of Grant County Inc

Focus support for health, education and financial stability in grant county, indiana to achieve measurable results by uniting community resources.

Philanthropy
7
United Way of Central Ohio Inc

United way of central ohio is the local organization that harnesses the power of communities working together - people, nonprofits, businesses and government - to create a stronger, more equitable central ohio. see schedule o.we do this…

Philanthropy
8
United Way of Huntington County in

The mission of the organization is to unite the community through visionary leadership, assessment of needs and the mobilization and dispersion of resources to enchance the quality of life for the citizens of huntington county. the…

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9
United Way of Monongalia and Preston Counites Inc

The uwmpc enhances the quality of life in our community by helping those in need. we serve as a leader in building a stronger and healthier community by developing resources and creating partnerships to empower individuals to improve their…

Philanthropy
10
United Way Manitowoc County Inc

United way's mission is to improve lives.

Philanthropy
11
United Way of Cleveland County Inc

The United Way of Cleveland County helps people by uniting resources and programs to responsibly meet the needs of our community.

Philanthropy
12
United Way of Leavenworth County Inc

We unite individuals, nonprofits, businesses, and government partners to fight for the education, basic needs, and financial stability of each and every person in the leavenworth county area.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals On Wheels America and the most unlike its peers is Kalida Local Athletic Booster Club. 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 38 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr12%10%5–10yr21%18%10–20yr14%20%20–35yr16%28%35–55yr20%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr21%0%10–20yr14%72%20–35yr16%5%35–55yr20%23%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/51
the rest of the field
11%
8,037/74,255

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.

05the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 90 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/42
Grantees still filing
28/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE FINDLAY-HANCOCK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,263,411 · PhilanthropyTHE FINDLAY-HANCOCK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONUnited Way of Northeast Mississippi Inc — $78,500 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Northeast Mississippi Inc+3 more — $12,500 · PhilanthropyBenevity — $353,771 · OtherBenevityUNITED WAY OF HANCOCK COUNTY INC — $161,250 · OtherUNITED WAY OF HANCOCK COUNTY INCUnited Way of Greater Texarkana Inc — $110,000 · OtherUnited Way of Greater Texarkana IncMotivate Inc — $46,304 · OtherMotivate Inc+66 more — $142,605 · Other+66 moreFINDLAY-HANCOCK COUNTY ALLIANCE — $110,250 · Community ImprovementMEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA — $50,000 · Food & NutritionRunnin WJ Therapeutic Center Inc — $7,000 · Human ServicesSenior Citizens Services of Texarkana — $5,000 · Human ServicesVANTAGE AGING — $5,000 · Human ServicesMISSION TEXARKANA INC — $4,165 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION FINDLAY OHIO — $2,500 · Human ServicesWELCOME TO A NEW LIFE — $1,000 · Human Services+3 more — $750 · Human ServicesGirl Scouts of Western Ohio — $5,250 · Youth DevelopmentAmerican Heart Association Inc — $2,500 · HealthTEMPLE MEMORIAL PEDIATRIC CENTER INC — $500 · HealthInternational Rett Syndrome Foundation — $250 · Health
Philanthropy$1,354,411Other$813,930Community Improvement$110,250Food & Nutrition$50,000Human Services$25,415Youth Development$5,250Health$3,250

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 budgetTHE FINDLAY-HANCOCK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,263,411 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF HANCOCK COUNTY INC — $161,250 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetFINDLAY-HANCOCK COUNTY ALLIANCE — $110,250 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Texarkana Inc — $110,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetUnited Way of Northeast Mississippi Inc — $78,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE — $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget50 NORTH — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSPECTRUM OF FINDLAY INC — $6,250 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetGirl Scouts of Western Ohio — $5,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSenior Citizens Services of Texarkana — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVANTAGE AGING — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION TEXARKANA INC — $4,165 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHANCOCK-HARDIN-WYANDOT-PUTNAM COMMUNITY ACTION COMMISSION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION FINDLAY OHIO — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRAND PRAIRIE UNITED CHARITES INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChildrens Mentoring Connection of Hancock County — $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTwisted Pink Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe University of Findlay — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWELCOME TO A NEW LIFE — $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLeadership Texarkana — $600 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTEMPLE MEMORIAL PEDIATRIC CENTER INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKALIDA LOCAL ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB — $250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOHIO ASSOCIATION FOR GIFTED CHILDREN — $250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLIBERTY BENTON PTO — $250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALL WE ARE INC — $250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetInternational Rett Syndrome Foundation — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLAG CITY HONOR FLIGHT INC — $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGLIDING STARSINC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHANCOCK LITERACY — $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERDALE EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPELOTONIA — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAWAKENING MINDS — $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLIBERTY-BENTON ATHLETIC BOOSTERS % NATE AYDT — $100 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

The Findlay-Hancock C…Premier Bank Foundati…Haushalter Family Fou…Toledo Classic IncAmerican Electric Pow…Findlay Rotary Founda…United Way of Hancock…United Way of Greater…The Bobbie a Atkinson…Ledwell Family Founda…Patterson Troike Foun…Toledo Community Foun…
The Findlay-Hancock County Community FoundationOH38.5× affinity16 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Findlay-Hancock County Community Foundation · Premier Bank Foundation · Haushalter Family Foundation · Toledo Classic Inc · American Electric Power Foundation · Findlay Rotary Foundation Inc · United Way of Hancock County Inc · United Way of Greater Texarkana Inc · The Bobbie a Atkinson Foundation · Ledwell Family Foundation · Patterson Troike Foundation Inc · Toledo Community Foundation Inc

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 Tire 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 Tire Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Cooper Tire 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.

    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 90 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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