· Private foundation
The Cooper Family Foundation
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $735k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Motivate Our Students Texas Inc | $200,000 |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities of | $100,000 |
| Shriners Hospitals for Children | $100,000 |
| Restore Reproductive Health | $75,000 |
| Comfort Youth Baseball Inc | $60,000 |
| Mercy Chef's | $50,000 |
| Cajun Navy Relief | $50,000 |
| Rancher Navy | $50,000 |
| Samaritan's Purse | $50,000 |
| Boys Girls Club of Comfort | $25,000 |
| Cuero Blue Santa | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Laredo Police Dept Blue Santa Chari | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $224k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 28% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 23% of The Cooper Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +107% since the first grant, against -15% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 6 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, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $325k 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
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC3× · 2019–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +99%- MOMOTIVATE OUR STUDENTS OF TEXAS2× · 2022–2024 · $300k · revenue +107% · 93% of their budget
- RFREY FEO SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2022 · $70k · revenue +252%
Funded once
- BCBLUEBONNET CHILDRENS CENTERone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +12%
- CGComfort Golden Age Center Foundationone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -15% · 43% of their budget
- AOARCHDIOCESE OF SAN ANTONIOone grant, 2023 · $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.
Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and academically.
A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.
To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.
Our mission is to meet the spiritual and practical needs of the families of prisoners. We strive to provide a safe and caring home in whichfamilies can rest while visiting loved ones currently incarcerated in the adjacent prison system.
Crisis pregnancy counseling.
Christain Home
To provide shelter to abused families.
Consoation Commnity Outreach main purpose is to feed low income and poor families, we also provide them with daily needed essentials for free.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Shelter Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Motivate Our Students of Texas. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 39 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 ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MOTIVATE OUR STUDENTS OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds COMFORT PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds BLUEBONNET CHILDRENS CENTER ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Comfort Golden Age Center Foundation ↗
- Who funds DISABLED OUTDOORSMEN USA INC ↗
- Who funds South Texas Christian Ministries Medina County Christian Job Corps ↗
- Who funds REY FEO SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMFORT TABLE AND FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds THE CAJUN NAVY RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds MERCY CHEFS INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOYLE SCHOOL COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE BLOOD & TISSUE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PORT ARTHUR POLICE BLUE SANTA ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYSVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S SHELTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BLUE SANTA ↗
- Who funds Christian Assistance Ministry ↗
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: San Antonio Area Foundation · United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County · The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country Inc · San Antonio Food Bank · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Hal & Charlie Peterson Foundation & Fd Mgmt Trust · Greater Houston Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 The Cooper Family Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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.