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Leslie and Loretta Copeland Foundation Tr

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$565k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2024
20
Organizations funded FY2023
5%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$80,000
Organizations funded a year
17 to 20
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$9.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 5% of the organizations Leslie and Loretta Copeland Foundation Tr funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesOther
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
FY2024still arriving19$565k5%
FY202320$605k5%
FY202220$602k0%
FY202120$495k10%
FY202019$510k5%
FY201918$540k6%
FY201817$655k6%
FY201718$410kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.6MReligion$1.0MArts & Culture$462kHuman Services$460kYouth Development$385kHealth$165kHousing & Shelter$125kPhilanthropy$110k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Berea College$645,00080%
University of Miami$475,00080%
South Florida Pbs Inc$357,50080%
Hope Ignites Chicago$200,00081%
St Josephs Church$185,0008n/a
Urgent Inc$185,00083%
Young Mens Christian Assoc McGaw Inc$170,00080%
Misericordia Home$145,00070%
Chicago Community Foundation$110,0006n/a
East Ridge Retirement Village Inc$100,00040%
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All grantees of Leslie and Loretta Copeland Foundation Tr by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Berea College$645,00080%
University of Miami$475,00080%
South Florida Pbs Inc$357,50080%
Hope Ignites Chicago$200,00081%
St Josephs Church$185,0008n/a
Urgent Inc$185,00083%
Young Mens Christian Assoc McGaw Inc$170,00080%
Misericordia Home$145,00070%
Chicago Community Foundation$110,0006n/a
East Ridge Retirement Village Inc$100,00040%
Daniel Murphy Scholarship Fund$90,00071%
Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary$75,0004n/a
South Florida Public Media Group Inc$32,50020%
Christ Episcopal Church Inc$25,0001n/a
Misericordia Foundation$20,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Leslie and Loretta Copeland Foundation Tr supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBerea College: $645,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $475,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Florida Pbs Inc: $357,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetHope Ignites Chicago: $200,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetUrgent Inc: $185,000 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Assoc McGaw Inc: $170,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMisericordia Home: $145,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEast Ridge Retirement Village Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDaniel Murphy Scholarship Fund: $90,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetSouth Florida Public Media Group Inc: $32,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMisericordia Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 11.

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.

The Chicago Community TrustIL12.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Leslie and Loretta Copeland Foundation Tr

How much does Leslie and Loretta Copeland Foundation Tr give?
Leslie and Loretta Copeland Foundation Tr reported 19 grants totaling $565,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Leslie and Loretta Copeland Foundation Tr fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (38%), Religion (23%), Arts & Culture (11%).
Who are Leslie and Loretta Copeland Foundation Tr's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Berea College ($645k), University of Miami ($475k), South Florida Pbs Inc ($358k).
Does Leslie and Loretta Copeland Foundation Tr fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Leslie and Loretta Copeland Foundation Tr 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 Leslie and Loretta Copeland Foundation Tr?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Leslie and Loretta Copeland Foundation Tr based?
Leslie and Loretta Copeland Foundation Tr is based in IL.

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 25 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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