· Private foundation
Max and Lorayne Cooper Foundation Attention Susan Jackson
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $850k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLOUNT COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC | $630,000 |
| I3 ACADEMY | $562,000 |
| NEW SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA | $510,000 |
| CORNERSTONE SCHOOL | $189,529 |
| CENTER FOR EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION | $167,322 |
| TARRANT BOARD OF EDUCATION | $154,200 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA ALABAMA | $150,000 |
| FOUNDATIONS EARLY LEARNING CENTER | $77,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY CRISTO REY CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $61,494 |
| THE HOPE INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| FREEDOM PREPARATORY ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| ALABAMA GIVING INC | $800 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $924k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BCBLOUNT COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +88%
- NSNEW SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA3× · 2022–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +6%
- CSCORNERSTONE SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA INC3× · 2022–2024 · $743k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- IAI3 ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $500k
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ALABAMAone grant, 2019 · $225k
- TBThe Becket Fundone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +2%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The brandeis school of san francisco inspires students to lead lives of learning and purpose. we provide a challenging academic environment and a welcoming, inclusive community, each deeply enriched by jewish thought, values, and…
Bb&n, an all gender day school in cambridge, massachusetts, was established in 1974 by the merger of two independent schools, the buckingham school and the browne & nichols school, founded respectively in 1889 and 1883. located on multiple…
Excellence community schools prepares young people in new york city and stamford to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social, emotional, and…
Bpe drives exceptional outcomes for all students by developing great teachers and great schools. for three decades, bpe (formerly the boston plan for excellence) has devised solutions to the toughest challenges faced by boston's students…
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
Bpe's mission is to drive exceptional outcomes for all students by developing great teachers and great schools. for three decades, bpe (formerly the boston plan for excellence) has devised solutions to the toughest challenges faced by…
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
The massachusetts business alliance for education (mbae) is committed to excellence, opportunity and innovation in our public education system to prepare all students to engage successfully in a global economy and society.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Luria academy is a child-centered environment dedicated to academic excellence and a sophisticated knowledge of jewish text and jewish heritage. located in the prospect heights neighborhood of brookly, luria academy is a jewish…
To provide students with the knowledge, skills, ethical values needed for a career in law.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seton Education Partners and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
34 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. 34 of the 52 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds BLOUNT COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds I3 ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds READ TO LEAD INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Educational Innovation Inc ↗
- Who funds SETON EDUCATION PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds The Becket Fund ↗
- Who funds The Hope Institute ↗
- Who funds CONEY ISLAND PREP BUILDERS INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINE OF OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATIONS EARLY LEARNING AND FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Augustine Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds LEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON JEWISH FILM INC ↗
- Who funds The Success Foundation Serving Greeley-Evans Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds STEPS TO SUCCESS INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLINE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLINE FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
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.
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
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 Max and Lorayne Cooper Foundation Attention Susan Jackson 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Steps to Success Inc — 5% of income from government
- Huntington Theatre Co Inc — 4% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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