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.

Copaken Family Foundation

Copaken Family Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$55k

Largest

01What it funds

0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$945kPhilanthropy$350kEducation$98kReligion$54kHuman Services$52kHealth$30kSocial Science$25kCrime & Legal$16kOther$0

02FY2025 · 59 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k51 grants · $104k
$10k–50k7 grants · $98k
$50k–250k1 grant · $55k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$863k

Total assets

Largest grants
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
KEMPER MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART	$10,000
KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY	$10,000
METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL	$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
NELSON-ATKINS MUSEUM OF ART	$5,000
UNICORN THEATRE	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

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.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.6M · 75 repeat orgs$99k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.6M

$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%

+23%

Still filing today

69%

53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalCivil RightsInternationalOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

KC
KANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC
5× · 2020–2025 · $230k · revenue +32%
KC
KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY
5× · 2021–2025 · $55k · revenue +43%
KM
KEMPER MUSEUM OPERATING FOUNDATION
5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +1%

Funded once

JL
JUST LIKE YOU FILMS
one grant, 2024 · $10k
MA
MUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +91%
AF
ACADEMY FOR INTEGRATED ARTSgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +53%

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.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture

New York City Center Inc

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…

Arts & Culture

Black Repertory Theatre of Kansas City

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.

Arts & Culture

The American Theatre Guild

The american theatre guild is dedicated to providing the experience of live theatre to foster passion, inspire creativity and empower youth within our communities.

Arts & Culture

Oklahoma Repertory Theatre Group Inc

Okc rep produces live theater that builds community, creates conversation, and inspires us all.

Arts & Culture

Site Santa Fe

Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.

Arts & Culture

Stages

Stages makes plays and tells stories that invite everyone to live more deeply and love more boldly.

Arts & Culture

Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc

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.

Arts & Culture

United States Artists Inc

To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.

Arts & Culture

ArtsPlus

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.

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Arts Midwest Incorporated

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…

Arts & Culture

Center Stage Associates Inc

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…

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas City Young Audiences Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

83 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

83/83

Grantees still filing

52/83

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$761,750Other$711,253Education$101,300Human Services$53,750Social Science$25,000Crime & Legal$12,750Civil Rights$11,500

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.

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.

Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO78.6× affinity48 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Copaken Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Copaken Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

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