· Private foundation
Sherry Chappell Cooper Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $325k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CASHIERS-HIGHLANDS HUMANE SOCIETY | $250,000 |
| PET ALLIANCE OF GREATER ORLANDO | $150,000 |
| THE CENTER FOR GREAT APES | $119,789 |
| CHIMP HAVEN | $55,000 |
| FLORIDA URGENT RESCUE INC | $15,000 |
| POODLE AND POOCH RESCUE OF FLORIDA | $10,000 |
| BROTHER WOLF ANIMAL RESCUE | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 96% of your 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +7% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
- PAPET ALLIANCE OF GREATER ORLANDO INC5× · 2020–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +9%
- CFCenter for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $370k · revenue +59%
- PAPOODLE AND POOCH RESCUE INC3× · 2023–2025 · $35k · revenue +7%
Funded once
THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $129k · revenue +31%- OLOrlando Land Trust Incone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -99%
- FCFRANKLIN COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTERone grant, 2020 · $100k
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.
To assist in the medical care, misc care and rehoming of animals that do not have a home
Animal Welfare
The mission of Caloosa Humane Society is to serve, shelter, and protect the homeless pets in our care. We are dedicated to finding permanent and loving adoptive homes for our companion animals in need. Our no-kill facility provides low…
We are dedicated to rescuig animals left homeless for whatever reason, animals in public shelters where they are at high risk of euthanasia, animals given up by their owners because of difficult circumstances, and those in danger of abuse…
The mission of our organizations is to rescue dogs who have been abandoned or in situations that are abusive so they can live long lives with a loving family.
Pet rescue
Pet rescue and rehome abandon pets
Rescuing medium to large breed dogs and puppies from high kill shelters and unsafe conditions. We give each animal proper vet care, vaccinations, rehabilitation, microchipping and basic training to secure their future in a Furever home.
Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save a Life Pet Rescue Inc and the most unlike its peers is Orlando Land Trust Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 21 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 PET ALLIANCE OF GREATER ORLANDO INC ↗
- Who funds CASHIERS HIGHLANDS HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Center for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Orlando Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds CHIMP HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds OFF THE CHAIN USA INC ↗
- Who funds POODLE AND POOCH RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds Florida Urgent Rescue ↗
- Who funds Brother Wolf Animal Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds CAVALIER RESCUE OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE A LIFE PET RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST VOLUSIA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Houndhaven Inc ↗
- Who funds ABANDONED PET RESCUE 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: Greater Good Charities · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Sherry Chappell Cooper Foundation Inc 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.
- Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando 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.