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Sherry Chappell Cooper Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$610k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Animals$3.3MEducation$129kEnvironment$103kPhilanthropy$5k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $325k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$55,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$8.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HOUNDHAVEN INC: $5k → 10%SOUTHEAST VOLUSIA HUMANE SOCIETY: $5k → 12%PET ALLIANCE OF GREATER ORLANDO: $1.1M → 13%ABANDONED PET RESCUE: $5k → 13%CAVALIER RESCUE OF FLORIDA: $5k → 14%CITRUS COUNTY ANIMAL SERVICE: $5k → 17%UF FOUNDATION: $129k → 19%ROOSTERVILLE ANIMAL SANCTURY: $5k → 23%THE CENTER FOR GREAT APES: $150k → 25%FRANKLIN COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER: $100k → 11%BROTHER WOLF ANIMAL RESCUE: $10k → 12%CASHIERS-HIGHLANDS HUMANE SOCIETY: $250k → 13%CASHIERS-HIGHLANDS HUMANE SOCIETY: $350k → 18%OFF THE CHAIN USA: $43k → 7%PAWS UNCHAINED INC: $50k → 13%CHIMP HAVEN: $55k → 22%POODLE AND POOCH RESCUE OF FLORIDA: $15k → 12%PET ALLIANCE OF GREATER ORLANDO: $335k → 13%FLORIDA URGENT RESCUE INC: $15k → 14%FLORIDA CHINESE SHAR-PEI RESCUE: $7k → 19%THE CENTER FOR GREAT APES: $120k → 25%CASHIERS-HIGHLANDS HUMANE SOCIETY: $75k → 13%CASHIERS-HIGHLANDS HUMANE SOCIETY: $100k → 18%POODLE AND POOCH RESCUE OF FLORIDA: $10k → 12%PET ALLIANCE OF GREATER ORLANDO: $150k → 13%FLORIDA URGENT RESCUE INC: $5k → 14%THE CENTER FOR GREAT APES: $60k → 25%CASHIERS-HIGHLANDS HUMANE SOCIETY: $55k → 13%CASHIERS-HIGHLANDS HUMANE SOCIETY: $50k → 18%POODLE AND POOCH RESCUE OF FLORIDA: $10k → 12%PET ALLIANCE OF GREATER ORLANDO: $150k → 13%THE CENTER FOR GREAT APES: $40k → 25%PET ALLIANCE OF GREATER ORLANDO: $35k → 13%BACK TO NATURE WILDLIFE REFUGE: $3k → 13%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.
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 5 repeat orgs$532k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +7% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
14

Total granted

$3.0M
$467k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
0%

Still filing today

100%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEducationEnvironmentOther
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

  • PA
    PET ALLIANCE OF GREATER ORLANDO INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +9%
  • CF
    Center for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc
    4× · 2022–2025 · $370k · revenue +48%
  • PA
    POODLE AND POOCH RESCUE INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $35k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $129k · revenue +31%
  • OL
    Orlando Land Trust Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -99%
  • FC
    FRANKLIN COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
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
Pet Rescue Miami Inc
Animals
2
Saving Paws Rescue of Florida Inc

To assist in the medical care, misc care and rehoming of animals that do not have a home

Animals
3
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

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4
Caloosa Humane Society Inc

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…

Education
5
Angies Dog House

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…

Animals
6
All Hound Rescue of Florida Inc

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.

Animals
7
Boardwalk Pet Rescue

Pet rescue

Animals
8
St Clouds Rescue
Animals
9
Partners for Pets of South Florida

Pet rescue and rehome abandon pets

Animals
10
Saving Saluda Strays
Animals
11
Sunshine Dog Rescue Inc

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.

Animals
12
Pets Without Partners

Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save a Life Pet Rescue Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 21 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
6/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PET ALLIANCE OF GREATER ORLANDO INC: $1,720,000 · AnimalsPET ALLIANCE OF GREATER ORLANDO INCCASHIERS HIGHLANDS HUMANE SOCIETY: $880,000 · AnimalsCASHIERS HIGHLANDS HUMANE SOCIETYCenter for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc: $369,789 · AnimalsCenter for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc+10 more: $188,000 · Animals+10 moreFRANKLIN COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER: $100,000 · OtherPAWS UNCHAINED INC: $50,000 · OtherFLORIDA CHINESE SHAR PEI RESCUE INC: $7,000 · Other+3 more: $13,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $129,468 · EducationOrlando Land Trust Inc: $100,000 · Environment
Animals$3,157,789Other$170,000Education$129,468Environment$100,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPET ALLIANCE OF GREATER ORLANDO INC: $1,720,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetCASHIERS HIGHLANDS HUMANE SOCIETY: $880,000 over 6y, 32% of budgetCenter for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc: $369,789 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $129,468 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOrlando Land Trust Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCHIMP HAVEN INC: $55,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOFF THE CHAIN USA INC: $43,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetPOODLE AND POOCH RESCUE INC: $35,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetFlorida Urgent Rescue: $20,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetSAVE A LIFE PET RESCUE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetABANDONED PET RESCUE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCAVALIER RESCUE OF FLORIDA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSOUTHEAST VOLUSIA HUMANE SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHoundhaven Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 3.2% 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.

Greater Good CharitiesNetwork for GoodPaypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Greater Good CharitiesWA13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Sherry Chappell Cooper Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sherry Chappell Cooper Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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 21 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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