· Private foundation
Jim B Cooper & Lillian F Cooper Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PIERCE PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $4,795 |
| LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $4,200 |
| CREIGHTON COMMUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $3,640 |
| DESHLER PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $3,500 |
| PLAINVIEW PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $2,500 |
| CREIGHTON AMBULANCE SERVICE | $1,860 |
| PIERCE VOLUNTEER FIRE RESCUE | $1,700 |
| YORK PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $1,500 |
| WISNER-PILGER PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| NORFOLK PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $1,500 |
| PILGER FIRE AND RESCUE | $1,500 |
| WISNER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT | $1,500 |
| YORK PARKS AND REC | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
42 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 11 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PPPIERCE PUBLIC SCHOOLS7× · 2019–2025 · $27k
- CCCREIGHTON COMMUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS7× · 2019–2025 · $23k
- PPPLAINVIEW PUBLIC SCHOOLS7× · 2019–2025 · $21k
Funded once
- PHPIERCE HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $4k
- NCNEBRASKA COLLEGE OF TECHone grant, 2019 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $2k
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.
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.
To promote, facilitate and develop or co-develop affordable housing in lincoln county, nebraska.
Non-profit learning center providing safe, affordable, high- quality, and reliable child care, for all young children in randolph, nebraska and the surrounding area.
The center operates a group home for troubled youth, ages 12-18, in western nebraska.
Lincoln college uniquely empowers students to realize their full potential
To build the capacity of youth serving organizations, service providers, families and community to claim their voice, cultivate healing and take courageous action to improve their overall health and well being.
To Market Lincoln as the area of choice in which to live and do business, by attracting, assisting, retaining and promoting our members
To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…
Early childhood development.
Building strong communities through access to quality affordable patient centered healthcare to the medically underserved population of Lincoln County, Montana in accordance with requirements set forth in 42 U.S.C. 254C(C)(3)(G).
To promote and coordinate economic development, education, and quality of life through strengthened communication in north central nebraska.
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 106 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.
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jim B Cooper & Lillian F Cooper Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jim B Cooper & Lillian F Cooper Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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