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Jim B Cooper & Lillian F Cooper Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$46k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
33
Grants FY2025
27
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$4,795
Organizations funded a year
27 to 35
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$819k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Jim B Cooper & Lillian F Cooper Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureEducationReligionPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving33$46k33%
FY202427$38k33%
FY202335$40k46%
FY202228$42k50%
FY202129$46k41%
FY202027$41k59%
FY201928$41kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$168kRecreation & Sports$28kHealth$19kArts & Culture$15kHuman Services$13kPublic Safety & Disaster$12kYouth Development$7kFood & Nutrition$6kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Madison County School District 2$12,5007n/a
Lincoln Children's Zoo$4,25040%
Lincoln Youth Baseball Organization$3,25021%
The Foundation for Lincoln Public Schools$1,50010%
Brandon Gerdes Memorial Foundation$1,5001n/a
Educare of Lincoln Inc$1,50010%
Food Fort$1,50021%
Atlas Partners$1,50011%
Norfolk Arts Center$1,50010%
Bright Horizons Resources for Survivors of Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault$1,50010%
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All grantees of Jim B Cooper & Lillian F Cooper Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Madison County School District 2$12,5007n/a
Lincoln Children's Zoo$4,25040%
Lincoln Youth Baseball Organization$3,25021%
The Foundation for Lincoln Public Schools$1,50010%
Brandon Gerdes Memorial Foundation$1,5001n/a
Educare of Lincoln Inc$1,50010%
Food Fort$1,50021%
Atlas Partners$1,50011%
Norfolk Arts Center$1,50010%
Bright Horizons Resources for Survivors of Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault$1,50010%
The Zone Afterschool Program$1,50020%
Junior Achievement of Lincoln Inc$1,00010%
Wisner Community Senior Citizens Inc$1,00011%
Pilger Community Development Fund$1,00011%
Deshler Public Library Foundation$1,0001n/a
Spring Creek Kids Inc$9001n/a
Belmont Community Center$8001n/a
The Digg Site Productions Inc$7501n/a
Oasis Counseling International$60010%
Northern Hills Child Care$50010%
Norfolk Family Coalition Inc$50010%
Lincoln Children's Museum$50010%
Mosaic$50010%
Plainview Senior Center$50011%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 82 recipients with no EIN on record ($252k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jim B Cooper & Lillian F Cooper Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLincoln Children's Zoo: $4,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLincoln Youth Baseball Organization: $3,250 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetThe Foundation for Lincoln Public Schools: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEducare of Lincoln Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFood Fort: $1,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAtlas Partners: $1,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNorfolk Arts Center: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBright Horizons Resources for Survivors of Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Zone Afterschool Program: $1,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJunior Achievement of Lincoln Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWisner Community Senior Citizens Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPilger Community Development Fund: $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetOasis Counseling International: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern Hills Child Care: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorfolk Family Coalition Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLincoln Children's Museum: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMosaic: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlainview Senior Center: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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.

Nebraska Community Fo…Lincoln Community Fou…First Interstate Banc…Hugo a and Thelma Asp…Assurity Life Foundat…Duncan Family TrustCooper FoundationSpreetail FoundationThe Sherwood Foundati…Moeller Charitable Tr…Dolezal Family Founda…Rogers Foundation
Nebraska Community FoundationNE25.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nebraska Community Foundation · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Hugo a and Thelma Aspegren Charitable Trust · Assurity Life Foundation · Duncan Family Trust · Cooper Foundation · Spreetail Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Moeller Charitable Trust · Dolezal Family Foundation · Rogers Foundation

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.

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About Jim B Cooper & Lillian F Cooper Foundation

How much does Jim B Cooper & Lillian F Cooper Foundation give?
Jim B Cooper & Lillian F Cooper Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $45,895 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 35 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Jim B Cooper & Lillian F Cooper Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (57%), Recreation & Sports (10%), Health (7%).
Who are Jim B Cooper & Lillian F Cooper Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Madison County School District 2 ($13k), Lincoln Children's Zoo ($4k), Lincoln Youth Baseball Organization ($3k).
Does Jim B Cooper & Lillian F Cooper Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Jim B Cooper & Lillian F Cooper Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Jim B Cooper & Lillian F Cooper Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Nebraska Community Foundation, Lincoln Community Foundation Inc, First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc.
Where is Jim B Cooper & Lillian F Cooper Foundation based?
Jim B Cooper & Lillian F Cooper Foundation is based in NV.

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 106 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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