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Cooperatives for a Better World

Cooperatives for a Better World is wholly dedicated to educating and supporting the next generation of cooperative businesses. We do this by: (1) Growing the entrepreneur pipeline and strengthen the cooperative ecosystem; (2) Equipping cooperative entrepreneurs with the skills and tools for success; and (3) Connecting cooperative…

$966k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
75%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$460,785
Organizations funded a year
4 to 6
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$504k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 75% of the organizations Cooperatives for a Better World funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving6$965k67%
FY20234$4.8M75%
FY20226$15Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$19MHuman Services$1.1MEnvironment$626kCommunity Improvement$188kScience & Tech$20k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
OR
CA
MD
AZ
SC
LA
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Tribeworks Inc$18,630,6162n/a
Navajo Power Home PBC$1,130,1662n/a
The Nearness LCA$625,7852n/a
Village Real Estate Inv Coop$100,0001n/a
Smat Ltd$20,0001n/a
The Guild$20,0001n/a
Stylecrush Cooperative Inc$20,0001n/a
Carefully Inc$20,0001n/a
RIA Brewing$10,0001n/a
Hypatia Adventures LLC$10,0001n/a
Show all 13 grantees
All grantees of Cooperatives for a Better World by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Tribeworks Inc$18,630,6162n/a
Navajo Power Home PBC$1,130,1662n/a
The Nearness LCA$625,7852n/a
Village Real Estate Inv Coop$100,0001n/a
Smat Ltd$20,0001n/a
The Guild$20,0001n/a
Stylecrush Cooperative Inc$20,0001n/a
Carefully Inc$20,0001n/a
RIA Brewing$10,0001n/a
Hypatia Adventures LLC$10,0001n/a
LooHoos Enterprises LLC$10,0001n/a
The Southern BEE Alliance$10,0001n/a
Artisans Cooperative Group$8,0001n/a

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Find your warmest path to Cooperatives for a Better World 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 Cooperatives for a Better World

How much does Cooperatives for a Better World give?
Cooperatives for a Better World reported 6 grants totaling $965,951 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 6 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does Cooperatives for a Better World fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (90%), Human Services (5%), Environment (3%).
Who are Cooperatives for a Better World's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Tribeworks Inc ($19M), Navajo Power Home PBC ($1.1M), The Nearness LCA ($626k).
Does Cooperatives for a Better World fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Cooperatives for a Better World based?
Cooperatives for a Better World is based in NH.

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 13 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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