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Copaken Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k51 grants · $104k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $98k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE | $55,000 |
| KANSAS CITY FRIENDS OF ALVIN AILEY | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER KANSAS CITY | $20,000 |
| CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $10,000 |
| KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY | $10,000 |
| METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| KEMPER MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,590 |
| THEATRE ASPEN | $8,000 |
| THEATER COMMUNICATIONS GROUP | $6,500 |
| THE PUBLIC THEATER | $5,500 |
| ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER | $5,500 |
| MAYO CLINIC DEPT OF DEVELOPMENT | $5,000 |
| NELSON-ATKINS MUSEUM OF ART | $5,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY21–25, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
75 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- KCKANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC5× · 2020–2025 · $230k · revenue +32%
- KCKANSAS CITY SYMPHONY5× · 2021–2025 · $55k · revenue +43%
- KMKEMPER MUSEUM OPERATING FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- JLJUST LIKE YOU FILMSone grant, 2024 · $10k
- MAMUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +91%
- JCJACKSON COUNTY CASAgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +30%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
The mission of The Black Repertory Theatre of Kansas City is to educate and inspire our community by presenting and promoting appreciation for African-American culture through our stories.
The american theatre guild is dedicated to providing the experience of live theatre to foster passion, inspire creativity and empower youth within our communities.
Okc rep produces live theater that builds community, creates conversation, and inspires us all.
Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.
Stages makes plays and tells stories that invite everyone to live more deeply and love more boldly.
The oregon shakespeare festival creates world-class theater, revealing our collective humanity through illuminating interpretations of new and classic plays, and inspiring a love of our art form for current and future generations.
To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.
Arts+ teaches music and art to students of all socioeconomic backgrounds, offering financial assistance, scholarship and free outreach programs to honor its founding mission to make high-quality arts instruction available to all.
Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters to support, inform, and celebrate arts organizations and creative communities across the Midwest. Our mission is to build unprecedented opportunity across the…
See schedule o.inspired by our home city, baltimore center stage acts as a cultural catalyst for all communities to access theater in every form and engage in compelling conversations. programming: capture the collective imagination and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas City Young Audiences Inc and the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
83 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. 83 of the 133 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds KANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY FRIENDS OF ALVIN AILEY ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds KEMPER MUSEUM OPERATING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds PEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE SHALOM INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds UNICORN THEATRE ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE ASPEN ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC ↗
- Who funds PARSONS DANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION VISION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THEATRE MASTERS HANSEN ↗
- Who funds UNCORNERED INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ROSE BROOKS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · The H & R Block Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · G Kenneth and Ann Baum Philanthropic Fund · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation · The Sosland Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Richard J Stern Foundation for the Arts Commerce Bank Trustee · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee
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 Copaken Family Foundation 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.
- Uncornered Inc — 24% of income from government
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.
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