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Cooper Foundation

To make waco, tx a better or more desirable city in which to live, which is accomplished by giving grants to local nonprofit organizations.

$2.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$317k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0189% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Community Improvement$2.6MHuman Services$2.3MHealth$2.2MArts & Culture$1.9MEducation$1.9MPhilanthropy$671kCrime & Legal$653kHousing & Shelter$468kAnimals$440kOther$2.5M
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k14 grants · $439k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+2 grants · $567k
$46,300
Median grant
1
States reached
$103M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SALVATION ARMY WACO$316,978
TEXAS TRIBUNE$250,000
TRANSFORMATION WACO$200,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS$200,000
GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT$170,000
WACO CIVIC THEATRE$150,000
AMERICAN GATEWAYS$150,000
UNITED WAY OF WACO-MCLENNAN COUNTY$90,000
WACO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$70,000
STILWELL RETIREMENT RESIDENCE$60,000
COMMUNITY DOULAS OF WACO$47,000
HEART OF TEXAS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NETWORK$46,300
WACO INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT-UHS$43,260
COMPASSION MINISTRIES$39,000
WACO FOUNDATION$37,350
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%VIABLE OPTIONS IN COMMUNITY ENDEAVORS: $20k → 23%YMCA OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $120k → 16%YMCA OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $100k → 16%YMCA OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $52k → 16%COMMUNITY DOULAS OF WACO: $47k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS-HEART OF TEXAS CHAPTER: $35k → 16%YMCA OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $30k → 16%COMMUNITY HOSPICE OF TEXASPROVIDENCE HOSPICE: $30k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS-HEART OF TEXAS CHAPTER: $25k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS-HEART OF TEXAS CHAPTER: $25k → 16%COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE OF TEXAS - PROVIDENCE HOSPICE: $19k → 16%YMCA OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $15k → 16%PROVIDENCE FOUNDATION: $27k → 16%PROVIDENCE FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%PROVIDENCE FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%PROVIDENCE FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS-HOT CHAPTER: $10k → 16%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE HEART OF TEXAS: $150k → 16%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE HEART OF TEXAS: $108k → 16%CASA OF MCLENNAN COUNTY: $100k → 16%CARITAS OF WACO: $50k → 16%CASA OF MCLENNAN COUNTY: $50k → 16%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE HOT: $40k → 16%CARITAS OF WACO: $35k → 16%CARITAS OF WACO: $34k → 16%CARITAS OF WACO: $20k → 16%CARITAS OF WACO: $2k → 16%CASA OF MCLENNAN COUNTY: $98k → 16%CASA OF MCLENNAN COUNTY: $98k → 16%CENTRAL TEXAS SENIOR MINISTRY: $85k → 16%ARC OF MCLENNAN COUNTY: $70k → 16%CASA OF MCLENNAN COUNTY: $67k → 16%MEALS ON WHEELS (CENTRAL TEXAS SENIOR MINISTRY): $60k → 16%CASA OF MCLENNAN COUNTY: $50k → 16%MEALS ON WHEELS (CENTRAL TEXAS SENIOR MINISTRY): $50k → 16%THE ARC OF MCLENNAN COUNTY: $50k → 16%MEALS ON WHEELS (CENTRAL TEXAS SENIOR MINISTRY): $50k → 16%MEALS ON WHEELS (CENTRAL TEXAS SENIOR MINISTRY): $25k → 16%MEALS ON WHEELS (CENTRAL TEXAS SENIOR MINISTRY): $20k → 16%MEALS ON WHEELS (CENTRAL TEXAS SENIOR MINISTRY): $10k → 16%THE METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME: $113k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 5% of Cooper Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 98% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Cooper Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$13M · 47 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

47 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
21

Total granted

$13M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+3%

Still filing today

87%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $321k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureHealthEducationEmploymentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • HO
    HEART OF TEXAS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC
    4× · 2017–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +36%
  • GW
    GREATER WACO COLLECTIVE IMPACT INITIATIVE
    5× · 2019–2023 · $980k · revenue +48%
  • WC
    WACO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION DBA GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
    7× · 2018–2025 · $853k · revenue +33% · 31% of their budget

Funded once

  • CAMERON PARK ZOOLOGICAL & BOTANICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2024 · $225k · revenue -33%
  • HW
    HOT WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD INC
    one grant, 2024 · $194k · revenue 0%
  • CH
    CEN-TEX HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMM
    one grant, 2022 · $180k · revenue -25% · 51% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Food Bank of West Central Texas

To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.

Food & Nutrition
2
Waco Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Collaborative Inc

Start up waco is a texas nonprofit organization formed via collaboration of cross-sector partnerships that aspire to lead waco's entrepreneurial support efforts and elevate waco as a hub for business innovation.

Community Improvement
3
West Texas Food Bank

The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…

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4
East Texas Community Clinic Inc

To provide comprehensive primary care and preventive care to all persons regardless of their ability to pay.

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5
United Way of Comal County

To engage the community and focus resources for those in need in comal county

Philanthropy
6
Capital of Texas Public Telecommunications Council

Klru is a leader in public media, distinguished by its energetic engagement with the community and for the quality and creativity of content. klru illuminates the wider world of knowledge; the importance of discourse; and the many…

Arts & Culture
7
Texas Association of Business

As the state chamber of commerce, tab is the most influential and dominant voice for public policy issues affecting business in texas. through proven results-oriented advocacy and member services, tab develops a climate in texas which…

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8
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

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9
Greater Waco United Fund Foundation

In connection with the united way of waco-mclennan county, texas, helping to achieve a community where all people have the education, health and stability needed to reach their full potential.

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10
Center for Public Policy Priorities

At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…

Public Benefit
11
Tulsa Regional Chamber (Fka Metropolitan Tulsa Chamber of Commerce)

The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.

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12
Mineral Wells Area Chamber of Commerce

To promote economic growth, tourism and leadership development in the city of mineral wells, texas, and surrounding areas

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Waco Community Development Corporation Dba Grassroots Community Development and the most unlike its peers is Cen-Tex Hispanic Chamber of Comm. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr13%6%5–10yr16%7%10–20yr14%20%20–35yr15%38%35–55yr20%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr13%4%5–10yr16%15%10–20yr14%23%20–35yr15%40%35–55yr20%18%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%2/76
the rest of the field
12%
123/1,021

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 65 of the 74 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/65
Grantees still filing
44/65
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GREATER WACO COLLECTIVE IMPACT INITIATIVE — $980,179 · Community ImprovementGREATER WACO COLLEC…WACO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION DBA GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT — $853,292 · Community ImprovementWACO COMMUNITY DEVE…TALITHA KOUM INSTITUTE — $230,144 · Community ImprovementTALITHA KOUM INSTIT…COMPASSION MINISTRIES OF WACO — $199,000 · Community ImprovementCOMPASSION MINISTRI…CEN-TEX HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMM — $179,500 · Community ImprovementCEN-TEX HISPANIC CH…+4 more — $185,000 · Community Improvement+4 moreCASA OF MCLENNAN COUNTY — $463,345 · Human ServicesCASA OF MCLENNAN…WACO FAMILY YMCA — $317,475 · Human ServicesWACO FAMILY YMCAMEALS ON WHEELS WACO — $300,273 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WHEELS …COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE HEART OF TEXAS — $298,227 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITIES IN S…FAMILY ABUSE CENTER INC — $249,491 · Human ServicesFAMILY ABUSE CEN…CARITAS OF WACO — $141,145 · Human ServicesCARITAS OF WACOMETHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME — $113,056 · Human ServicesTHE ARC OF MCLENNAN COUNTY — $109,621 · Human ServicesASCENSION PROVIDENCE FOUNDATION — $101,919 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $89,710 · Human Services+3 more — $113,521 · Human ServicesHEART OF TEXAS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC — $1,041,491 · HealthHEART OF TEXAS …PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC — $1,000,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTH…+4 more — $106,513 · HealthDR PEPPER MUSEUM AND FREE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE — $406,305 · Arts & CultureDR PEPPER MUSE…WACO CREATIVE ART CENTER — $406,264 · Arts & CultureWACO CREATIVE …Waco Cultural Arts Fest — $320,000 · Arts & CultureWaco Cultural …WACO CIVIC THEATRE — $274,480 · Arts & CultureWACO CIVIC THE…HISTORIC WACO FOUNDATION INC — $229,600 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC WACO …WACO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC — $134,520 · Arts & CultureWACO SYMPHONY …CREATIVE WACO — $107,000 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE WACOTEXAS MUSEUMS & HALLS OF FAME FOUNDATION — $70,767 · Arts & CultureBAYLOR UNIVERSITY — $611,405 · EducationBAYLOR UNIVER…MCLENNAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ATTN CHRISTOPHER QUALLS — $434,895 · EducationMCLENNAN COMM…TRANSFORMATION WACO — $325,000 · EducationTRANSFORMATIO…TEXAS TRIBUNE INC — $250,000 · EducationTEXAS TRIBUNE…THE COVE - HEART OF TEXAS INC — $204,697 · EducationTHE COVE - HE…+1 more — $47,406 · EducationTHE SALVATION ARMY — $436,045 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYHEART OF TEXAS REGION MENTAL HEALTH MENTAL RETARDATION CENTER — $360,394 · OtherHEART OF TEXAS REGION MENTAL …LA VEGA ISD — $177,573 · OtherCENIKOR FOUNDATION — $162,500 · OtherCITY OF WACO — $150,000 · OtherWACO FOUNDATION — $339,412 · OtherWACO FOUNDATIONUNITED WAY OF WACO-MCLENNAN COUNTY — $240,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF WACO-MCLENNAN C…WACO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $364,800 · OtherWACO HABITAT FOR HUMANITYCAMERON PARK ZOOLOGICAL & BOTANICAL SOCIETY — $225,000 · OtherCAMERON PARK ZOOLOGICAL & BOT…ANIMAL BIRTH CONTROL CLINIC — $214,928 · OtherHOT WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD INC — $194,370 · OtherWORLD HUNGER RELIEF INSTITUTE — $208,650 · OtherMISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC — $150,000 · Other+17 more — $827,419 · Other+17 moreAmerican Gateways — $403,000 · Crime & LegalGREATER WACO LEGAL SERVICES — $250,000 · Crime & Legal
Community Improvement$2,627,115Human Services$2,297,783Health$2,148,004Arts & Culture$1,948,936Education$1,873,403Other$4,051,091Crime & Legal$653,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHEART OF TEXAS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC — $1,041,491 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC — $1,000,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetGREATER WACO COLLECTIVE IMPACT INITIATIVE — $980,179 over 5y, 20% of budgetWACO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION DBA GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT — $853,292 over 7y, 31% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY — $611,405 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCASA OF MCLENNAN COUNTY — $463,345 over 6y, 19% of budgetMCLENNAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ATTN CHRISTOPHER QUALLS — $434,895 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetDR PEPPER MUSEUM AND FREE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE — $406,305 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetWACO CREATIVE ART CENTER — $406,264 over 4y, 18% of budgetAmerican Gateways — $403,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetWACO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $364,800 over 7y, 6.3% of budgetWACO FOUNDATION — $339,412 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetTRANSFORMATION WACO — $325,000 over 3y, 42% of budgetWaco Cultural Arts Fest — $320,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetWACO FAMILY YMCA — $317,475 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS WACO — $300,273 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE HEART OF TEXAS — $298,227 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetWACO CIVIC THEATRE — $274,480 over 4y, 19% of budgetGREATER WACO LEGAL SERVICES — $250,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetFAMILY ABUSE CENTER INC — $249,491 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WACO-MCLENNAN COUNTY — $240,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetTALITHA KOUM INSTITUTE — $230,144 over 2y, 10% of budgetHISTORIC WACO FOUNDATION INC — $229,600 over 4y, 51% of budgetCAMERON PARK ZOOLOGICAL & BOTANICAL SOCIETY — $225,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetANIMAL BIRTH CONTROL CLINIC — $214,928 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetWORLD HUNGER RELIEF INSTITUTE — $208,650 over 5y, 19% of budgetTHE COVE - HEART OF TEXAS INC — $204,697 over 3y, 11% of budgetCOMPASSION MINISTRIES OF WACO — $199,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetHOT WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD INC — $194,370 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCEN-TEX HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMM — $179,500 over 1y, 51% of budgetCENIKOR FOUNDATION — $162,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC — $150,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCARITAS OF WACO — $141,145 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWACO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC — $134,520 over 3y, 11% of budgetMETHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME — $113,056 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ARC OF MCLENNAN COUNTY — $109,621 over 3y, 17% of budgetCREATIVE WACO — $107,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetTEXAS RETIRED TEACHERS RESIDENCE CORP — $103,080 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetASCENSION PROVIDENCE FOUNDATION — $101,919 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $89,710 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL TEXAS — $80,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHEART OF TEXAS GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INC — $77,622 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTEXAS MUSEUMS & HALLS OF FAME FOUNDATION — $70,767 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetCITY CENTER WACO CENTER INCUBATOR — $60,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetCarter BloodCare — $58,563 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCEN-TEX AFRICAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc — $49,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetADVOCACY CENTER FOR CRIME VICTIMS AND CHILDREN — $47,406 over 3y, 1.3% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Waco FoundationBernard & Audre Rapop…United Way of Waco-Mc…Baylor UniversityClifton FoundationMargaret Cb & S Spenc…Ascension ProvidenceThe Fentress Foundati…Once Upon a Time Foun…Bowen Family Foundati…The McClane Brown Fam…Magnolia Foundation
Waco FoundationTX86.1× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Waco Foundation · Bernard & Audre Rapoport Foundation · United Way of Waco-McLennan County · Baylor University · Clifton Foundation · Margaret Cb & S Spencer N Brown Foundation Inc · Ascension Providence · The Fentress Foundation · Once Upon a Time Foundation · Bowen Family Foundation · The McClane Brown Family Foundation · Magnolia Foundation

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

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Cooper Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    24report 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

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Cooper Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Cooper Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 74 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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