Missouri · Private foundation
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.
- $257k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 59
- Grants FY2025
- 64
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $55,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 78
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $863k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Copaken Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 58 | $255k | 16% |
| FY2024 | 64 | $372k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 60 | $316k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 59 | $346k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 78 | $349k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $13k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $500 | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas City Repertory Theatre Inc | $230,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey | $125,000 | 5 | 2% |
| United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc | $60,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Kansas City Symphony | $54,820 | 5 | 0% |
| New Reform Temple | $53,938 | 5 | n/a |
| Kemper Museum Operating Foundation | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Metropolitan Arts Council | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Performing Arts Foundation of Kansas City | $45,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Pembroke Hill School | $42,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Village Shalom Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 84 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 47 recipients with no EIN on record ($474k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Copaken Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About Copaken Family Foundation
- How much does Copaken Family Foundation give?
- Copaken Family Foundation reported 59 grants totaling $256,915 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 78 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Copaken Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (56%), Philanthropy (21%), Education (6%).
- Who are Copaken Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Kansas City Repertory Theatre Inc ($230k), Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey ($125k), United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc ($60k).
- Does Copaken Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Copaken Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Copaken Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City, The H & R Block Foundation.
- Where is Copaken Family Foundation based?
- Copaken Family Foundation is based in MO.
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