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Max and Lorayne Cooper Foundation Attention Susan Jackson at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$630k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% 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
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $850k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.7M
$154,200
Median grant
2
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%LEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
MA
PA
CT
CO
DC
AL
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.4M · 12 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
31

Total granted

$6.4M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+34%

Still filing today

67%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $924k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureCivil 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • BC
    BLOUNT COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +88%
  • NS
    NEW SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +58%
  • CS
    CORNERSTONE SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $743k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • IA
    I3 ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $500k
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ALABAMA
    one grant, 2019 · $225k
  • SR
    SAINT RITA DE CASCIA PARISH
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Brandeis School of San Francisco

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…

Education
3
Buckingham Browne & Nichols School

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…

Education
4
Bronx Charter School for Excellence

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…

Education
5
Bpe Inc

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…

Education
6
Trustees of Boston College

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…

Education
7
Bpe Inc

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…

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8
New England Lawboston

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…

Education
9
Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education Inc

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.

Education
10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
11
Luria Academy of Brooklyn

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…

Education
12
Brooklyn Law School

To provide students with the knowledge, skills, ethical values needed for a career in law.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seton Education Partners; 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.
04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 52 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/34
Grantees still filing
25/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BLOUNT COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $1,550,000 · EducationBLOUNT COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATIONNEW SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA: $1,430,000 · EducationNEW SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMATeach for America Inc: $600,000 · EducationTeach for America IncI3 ACADEMY: $562,000 · EducationI3 ACADEMYCenter for Educational Innovation Inc: $167,322 · Education+7 more: $150,800 · EducationCORNERSTONE SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA INC: $742,832 · OtherCORNERSTONE SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA INCI3 ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $500,000 · OtherI3 ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM: $500,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAMREAD TO LEAD INC: $484,083 · OtherREAD TO LEAD INCRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE ALABAMA INC: $470,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE ALABAMA INCTARRANT BOARD OF EDUCATION: $416,534 · OtherTARRANT BOARD OF EDUCATIONRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ALABAMA: $225,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ALABAMA+22 more: $441,494 · Other+22 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $1,400,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION…SETON EDUCATION PARTNERS: $80,000 · PhilanthropySETON EDUCATION P…+3 more: $16,800 · PhilanthropyThe Hope Institute: $50,000 · Human ServicesLEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $25,000 · Human ServicesThe Becket Fund: $50,000 · Social ScienceDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $20,000 · HealthCONQUER CANCER COALITION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $1,000 · HealthHUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$4,460,122Other$3,779,943Philanthropy$1,496,800Human Services$75,000Social Science$50,000Health$21,000Arts & Culture$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $1,400,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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 budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

Jewish Federation of …The Community Foundat…The Daniel Foundation…Protective Life Found…Mike and Gillian Good…Hill Crest Foundation…Alabama Power Foundat…Eastern Bank Foundati…The Welch Group Found…Campbell Estelle S Ch…Robert R Meyer Founda…Susan Mott Webb Chari…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Max and Lorayne Cooper Foundation Attention Susan Jackson funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Max and Lorayne Cooper Foundation Attention Susan Jackson. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
7report 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Max and Lorayne Cooper Foundation Attention Susan Jackson 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 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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