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Max and Lorayne Cooper Foundation Attention Susan Jackson

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.6M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2024
25
Organizations funded FY2023
60%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$154,200
Largest grant, FY2024
$630,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 25
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$26M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 60% of the organizations Max and Lorayne Cooper Foundation Attention Susan Jackson funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $208k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’22’23
EducationPhilanthropySocial ScienceArts & CultureFood & NutritionCivil RightsOther
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 arriving12$2.6M58%
FY202325$1.8M60%
FY202211$2.1M73%
FY202012$452k83%
FY20193$490k100%
FY20184$500k50%
FY20175$535kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$7.4MPhilanthropy$1.4MHuman Services$720kReligion$162kHealth$61kArts & Culture$55kSocial Science$50kScience & Tech$15kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
MA
PA
CT
CO
DC
AL
GA

Top grantees

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

Show all 33 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Max and Lorayne Cooper Foundation Attention Susan Jackson supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBlount County Education Foundation: $1,550,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetNew Schools for Alabama: $1,430,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetCornerstone Schools of Alabama Inc: $742,832 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $600,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetI3 Academy: $562,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetRead to Lead Inc: $484,083 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetRonald McDonald House Alabama Inc: $470,000 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetCenter for Educational Innovation Inc: $167,322 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSeton Education Partners: $80,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetConey Island Prep Builders Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetThe Becket Fund: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Hope Institute: $50,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetPan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFoundations Early Learning and Family Center Inc: $33,300 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetAugustine Institute Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLevite Jewish Community Center: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Jewish Film Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetThe Success Foundation Serving Greeley-Evans Schools Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHuntington Theatre Co Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrookline Education Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSteps to Success Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUnited Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrookline Food Pantry Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGreater Boston Food Bank Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSandy Hook Promise Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCollege Affordable Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConquer Cancer Coalition of Massachusetts Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAlabama Giving Inc: $800 over 1y, 1.5% 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 31.

Nonprofits that may fit its grantmaking

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.

Jewish Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL27× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Protective Life Foundation · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Welch Group Foundation · Campbell Estelle S Char Foundation · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust

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 Max and Lorayne Cooper Foundation Attention Susan Jackson

How much does Max and Lorayne Cooper Foundation Attention Susan Jackson give?
Max and Lorayne Cooper Foundation Attention Susan Jackson reported 12 grants totaling $2,557,345 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Max and Lorayne Cooper Foundation Attention Susan Jackson fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (75%), Philanthropy (14%), Human Services (7%).
Who are Max and Lorayne Cooper Foundation Attention Susan Jackson's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Blount County Education Foundation ($1.6M), New Schools for Alabama ($1.4M), Cornerstone Schools of Alabama Inc ($743k).
Does Max and Lorayne Cooper Foundation Attention Susan Jackson fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Max and Lorayne Cooper Foundation Attention Susan Jackson accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Max and Lorayne Cooper Foundation Attention Susan Jackson?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, The Daniel Foundation of Alabama.
Where is Max and Lorayne Cooper Foundation Attention Susan Jackson based?
Max and Lorayne Cooper Foundation Attention Susan Jackson is based in AL.

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 52 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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