· Private foundation
Robert J & Loretta W Cooney Family Fdtn
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $21k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $210k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOSTON COLLEGE | $210,000 |
| FENWICK HIGH SCHOOL | $21,000 |
| PROVIDENCE ST MEL SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| OAK PARK COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ST LUKE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| OUR PLACE | $500 |
| HELP HOPE LOVE | $500 |
| WTTW | $150 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE5× · 2020–2024 · $975k · revenue +50%- BSBig Shoulders Fund4× · 2020–2023 · $375k · revenue +67%
- DMDANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND4× · 2020–2023 · $101k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR JUSTICE & ACCOUNTABILITYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +43%
Teach for America Incone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -3%- EAEVAN'S AVENGERS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
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.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.
The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 36 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Big Shoulders Fund ↗
- Who funds DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds Providence St Mel School ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds Oak Park Country Club Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAN MIGUEL FEBRES CORDERO SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR JUSTICE & ACCOUNTABILITY ↗
- Who funds SARAH'S INN ↗
- Who funds RECIPE FOR CHANGE ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds Horizons for Youth ↗
- Who funds HELPHOPELIVE INC ↗
- Who funds HEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE 100 CLUB OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds RIVER FOREST PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Good Heart Work Smart Foundation · Helen V Brach Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Chicago Board of Trade Foundation · Lavin Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Robert J & Loretta W Cooney Family Fdtn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert J & Loretta W Cooney Family Fdtn. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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