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Cooperative Development Foundation

To promote and develop cooperatives to improve economic opportunities for all.

$871k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$240k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$2.2MCommunity Improvement$1.4MFood & Nutrition$790kPublic Safety & Disaster$327kArts & Culture$148kEmployment$118kHousing & Shelter$117kHuman Services$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 21 grants below total $800,463, the rows itemized in this filing. The $870,870 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $70,407 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $267k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $485k
$11,450
Median grant
17
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Kansas State University Foundation$240,318
North Dakota State University$144,196
French Broad Trading Cooperative Inc$100,000
Human Connections Fund$49,900
South Carolina Cooperatives Care Foundation$49,900
NCBA CLUSA$35,000
Columinate Community Foundation$26,500
Naugatuck Valley Project Inc$25,000
Langston University Foundation$23,712
Hendersonville Community Co-op$15,800
Cooperative Development Institute Inc$11,450
Austin Cooperative Business Foundation$10,000
Ralph K Morris Foundation$10,000
Federation of Southern Cooperatives LAF$10,000
The Working World dba Seed Commons$9,800
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 77% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Columinate Community Foundation: $27k → 15%The ICA Group Inc: $50k → 12%Startcoop: $10k → 16%Food Co-op Initiative: $30k → 5%Ralph K Morris Foundation: $10k → 11%Northcountry Cooperative Foundation: $37k → 14%Langston University Foundation: $500k → 12%South Carolina Cooperatives Care Foundation: $50k → 11%Thurgood Marshall College Fund: $100k → 14%Florida Electric Cooperatives Association: $31k → 19%Kansas State University Foundation: $240k → 20%University of Wisconsin Foundation: $97k → 10%CASA of Oregon: $25k → 8%Naugatuck Valley Project Inc: $25k → 12%Human Connections Fund: $50k → 8%Tidal Creek Cooperative Food Market: $27k → 12%Hendersonville Community Co-op: $16k → 12%French Broad Trading Cooperative Inc: $100k → 12%American Indian College Fund: $300k → 10%University of Colorado Foundation: $150k → 12%Purdue University: $150k → 19%Dakota College at Bottineau: $158k → 10%North Dakota State University: $144k → 12%South Dakota State University Foundation: $350k → 13%CHS Foundation: $18k → 6%National Coop Grocers: $30k → 14%Texas Electric Cooperatives: $21k → 10%Langston University Foundation: $24k → 12%National Cooperative Business Assoc: $250k → 14%Florida Electric Cooperatives Association: $15k → 19%Kansas State University Foundation: $243k → 20%University of Wisconsin Foundation: $22k → 10%North Carolina Agricultural Foundation Inc: $148k → 8%North Dakota State University Foundation: $244k → 12%National Cooperative Business Assoc: $100k → 14%South Dakota State University Foundation: $100k → 13%National Cooperative Business Assoc: $50k → 14%UW Center for Cooperatives (CCMA): $153k → 10%South Dakota State University Foundation: $53k → 13%Cooperative Development Foundation: $40k → 14%NCBA CLUSA: $35k → 14%NCBA CLUSA: $35k → 14%National Cooperative Business Assoc: $35k → 14%National Cooperative Business Assoc: $35k → 14%National Cooperative Business Assoc: $35k → 14%National Cooperative Business Assoc: $35k → 14%National Cooperative Business Assoc: $15k → 14%National Cooperative Business Assoc: $11k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
ND
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
SD
IN
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 7% of Cooperative Development Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 15% of the giving stays in DC; by stated purpose, 9%.

Cooperative Development Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.9% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 16 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
36

Total granted

$2.6M
$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+34%

Still filing today

81%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $302k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’23’24
EducationCommunity ImprovementEmploymentFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • KS
    KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2021 · $249k · revenue +42%
  • SD
    SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2024 · $164k · revenue +26%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $126k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • SD
    SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $350k
  • AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue -21%
  • DC
    DAKOTA COLLEGE AT BOTTINEAU FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $158k · revenue +512% · 32% of their budget
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Cincinnati Union Cooperative Initiative

Cincinnati union cooperative initiative partners with individuals and other organizations to develop worker-owned businesses which provide family- sustaining jobs and create economy that works for all.

Social Science
2
Community Cooperative dba Francesco Collaborative

Community Cooperative's mission is to support entrepreneurs and organizations advancing the cooperative and solidarity economy through connection to funding, training, workshops, networks, and resources that foster leadership in the…

Social Science
3
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
4
National Council of Farmer Cooperatives

To advance the business and policy interests of america's cooperatives and other farmer-owned enterprises.

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5
Cooperative Development Fund of Cds

To help start and grow cooperatively owned enterprises

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6
Cooperative Studies

To enhance cooperation, friendship, understanding, and sharing of resources among universities in the international academic community.

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7
Kansas Cooperative Council

The kansas cooperative council exists to promote, support and advance the interests, business success, and understanding of agricultural, utility, credit and consumer cooperatives and their members through legislation and regulatory…

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8
Cooperation L a

The L.A. Co-op Lab is a collective that builds capacity for worker ownership in Los Angeles as a pathway toward a more equitable and democratic economy.

Arts & Culture
9
Cooperative Network

Promote, represent & advocate for the cooperative way of doing business

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10
National Credit Union Foundation

The national credit union foundation envisions a world where everyone can achieve financial well-being. we exist to improve financial well-being with and through credit unions. we do this through two strategic priorities. first, we inspire…

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11
Center for Creation of Cooperation

Creating a cooperative culture

Education
12
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Co-Op Initiative; the most unlike its peers is Chs Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 62 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/46
Grantees still filing
30/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

North Dakota State University Foundation: $628,794 · EducationNorth Dakota State University FoundationLANGSTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $523,712 · EducationLANGSTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $300,000 · EducationAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUNDKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $248,532 · EducationKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $164,210 · EducationSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $150,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $125,625 · EducationThurgood Marshall College Fund: $100,000 · EducationILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $98,751 · Education+3 more: $36,000 · EducationCOOPERATIVE LEAGUE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: $650,863 · OtherCOOPERATIVE LEAGUE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERIC…SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $350,000 · OtherSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITYDAKOTA COLLEGE AT BOTTINEAU FOUNDATION: $157,500 · OtherDAKOTA COLLEGE AT BOTTINEAU FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $152,665 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSINTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $150,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITYCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI: $148,112 · OtherCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURIFrench Broad Trading Cooperative Inc: $100,000 · Other+28 more: $525,082 · Other+28 moreTHE NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INC: $148,330 · HealthTHE WORKING WORLD INC: $25,971 · Community ImprovementNAUGATUCK VALLEY PROJECT INC: $25,000 · Community ImprovementINDIANA COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $12,000 · Community ImprovementCOOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC: $11,450 · Community ImprovementKEYSTONE DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $8,200 · Community ImprovementCooperacin Santa Ana: $7,500 · Community ImprovementCALIFORNIA CENTER FOR COOPERATION DEVELOPMENT: $7,000 · Community ImprovementNYC NOWC Inc: $6,000 · Community ImprovementHUMAN CONNECTIONS FOUNDATION INC: $49,900 · Public Safety & DisasterSOUTH CAROLINA COOPERATIVES CARE FOUNDATION: $49,900 · Public Safety & DisasterFEDERATION OF SOUTHERN COOPERATIVES: $45,268 · Food & NutritionFOOD CO-OP INITIATIVE: $37,500 · Food & NutritionNORTHCOUNTRY COOPERATIVE FOUNDATION: $37,000 · Housing & ShelterURBAN HOMESTEADING ASSISTANCE (U-HAB) INC: $30,000 · Housing & Shelter
Education$2,375,624Other$2,234,222Health$148,330Community Improvement$103,121Public Safety & Disaster$99,800Food & Nutrition$82,768Housing & Shelter$67,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOOPERATIVE LEAGUE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: $650,863 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetNorth Dakota State University Foundation: $628,794 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLANGSTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $523,712 over 2y, 35% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $300,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $248,532 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $164,210 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDAKOTA COLLEGE AT BOTTINEAU FOUNDATION: $157,500 over 1y, 32% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INC: $148,330 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $125,625 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThurgood Marshall College Fund: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ICA GROUP INC: $60,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetHUMAN CONNECTIONS FOUNDATION INC: $49,900 over 1y, 16% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA COOPERATIVES CARE FOUNDATION: $49,900 over 1y, 32% of budgetFLORIDA ELECTRIC COOPERATIVES ASSOCIATION INC: $45,770 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetFEDERATION OF SOUTHERN COOPERATIVES: $45,268 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetRALPH K MORRIS FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 6y, 31% of budgetCOOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetFOOD CO-OP INITIATIVE: $37,500 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetNORTHCOUNTRY COOPERATIVE FOUNDATION: $37,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetURBAN HOMESTEADING ASSISTANCE (U-HAB) INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WORKING WORLD INC: $25,971 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNAUGATUCK VALLEY PROJECT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY AND SHELTER ASSISTANCE CORP: $24,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHS FOUNDATION: $18,315 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOLLECTIVE REMAKE ART BUSINESS EDUCATION JOBS NEWS PEOPLE AND REC: $18,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetINDIANA COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $12,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCOOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC: $11,450 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOOPERATIONWORKS: $11,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetASSOCIATION OF LOUISIANA ELECTRIC COOPERATIVES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEXUS COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN MEMBER-OWNED BUSINESS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetProspera Community Development: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetKEYSTONE DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $8,200 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetECOLOGICAL DEMOCRACY INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA: $8,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetCooperacin Santa Ana: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA CENTER FOR COOPERATION DEVELOPMENT: $7,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC: $6,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNYC NOWC Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUnited States Federation for Worker Cooperation: $5,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Amalgamated Charitabl…The Cooperative Chari…Roc USA LLCThe Kendeda FundWK Kellogg FoundationImpactassetsincCharities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC15.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Cooperative Charitable Trust · Roc USA LLC · The Kendeda Fund · WK Kellogg Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Cooperative Development Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cooperative Development Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 58%
  • Cooperative Development Institute Inc: 58% of income from government
  • Community and Shelter Assistance Corp: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Cooperative Development Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Cooperative Development 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 62 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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