· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+2 grants · $835k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Nearness LCA | $460,785 |
| Navajo Power Home PBC | $374,166 |
| Village Real Estate Inv Coop | $100,000 |
| Hypatia Adventures LLC | $10,000 |
| RIA Brewing | $10,000 |
| LooHoos Enterprises LLC | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 9% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.
How this is measured
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
- TGTHE GUILDone grant, 2022 · $20k
- SCStylecrush Cooperative Incone grant, 2022 · $20k
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.
0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2022–2024.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2022 to 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 13 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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