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· Public charity
Cooperatives for a Better World
Cooperatives for a Better World is wholly dedicated to educating and supporting the next generation of cooperative businesses.
$966k
Granted FY2024
6
Grants
6
Communities
$461k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 100% of Cooperatives for a Better World’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2022
growth
2023
accelerator
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 6 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+2 grants · $835k
$100,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$504k
Total assets
Largest grants
- The Nearness LCA$460,785
- Navajo Power Home PBC$374,166
- Village Real Estate Inv Coop$100,000
- RIA Brewing$10,000
- Hypatia Adventures LLC$10,000
- LooHoos Enterprises LLC$10,000
02The need
04
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 11%. 9% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$20M · 3 repeat orgs$228k to everyone else
3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
3
6
Total granted
$20M
$98k
Still filing today
0%
0%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
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
- TITribeworks Inc2× · 2022–2023 · $19M
- NPNavajo Power Home PBC2× · 2023–2024 · $1.1M
- TNThe Nearness LCA2× · 2022–2024 · $626k
Funded once
- SLSMAT LTDone grant, 2022 · $20k
- CICarefully Incone grant, 2022 · $20k
- SCStylecrush Cooperative Incone grant, 2022 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
05the grantee network
0 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2022–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
0/0
Grantees still filing
0/0
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$20,614,567
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.
05Through Plinth
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Cooperatives for a Better World?
Find your warmest path to Cooperatives for a Better World through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines