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The Cooper Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$790k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$200k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$2.3MHuman Services$549kEducation$546kRecreation & Sports$200kFood & Nutrition$146kReligion$100kPhilanthropy$87kEnvironment$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $735k
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$9.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Motivate Our Students Texas Inc$200,000
Shriners Hospitals for Children$100,000
Ronald McDonald House Charities of$100,000
Restore Reproductive Health$75,000
Comfort Youth Baseball Inc$60,000
Samaritan's Purse$50,000
Cajun Navy Relief$50,000
Mercy Chef's$50,000
Rancher Navy$50,000
Boys Girls Club of Comfort$25,000
Laredo Police Dept Blue Santa Chari$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Cuero Blue Santa$10,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–24, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Doyle School Community Center: $45k → 13%Mercy Chef's: $50k → 20%Hill Country Family Services Inc: $12k → 7%Christian Assistance Ministry: $2k → 13%CHRISTIAN ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $2k → 13%Comfort Golden Age Center Foundatio: $100k → 7%Christian Assistance Ministry: $2k → 13%Boysville Inc: $12k → 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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 23% of The Cooper Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Cooper Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 12 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +107% since the first grant, against -15% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
21

Total granted

$3.1M
$743k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+107%
-15%

Still filing today

50%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $325k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    3× · 2019–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +99%
  • MO
    MOTIVATE OUR STUDENTS OF TEXAS
    2× · 2022–2024 · $300k · revenue +107% · 93% of their budget
  • RF
    REY FEO SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $70k · revenue +252%

Funded once

  • AO
    ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN ANTONIO
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • BC
    BLUEBONNET CHILDRENS CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +12%
  • CG
    Comfort Golden Age Center Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -15% · 43% of their budget
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
Sunny Glen Children's Home Inc

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.

Human Services
2
Crime Stoppers of South Texas Inc
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3
Texas Foster Care & Adoption Serv

A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.

Human Services
4
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Milam County
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5
Central Texas Children's Home

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.

Human Services
6
Central Texas Hospitality House

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.

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7
South Texas Pregnancy Care Center

Crisis pregnancy counseling.

Health
8
Christian Home of Pecos

Christain Home

Crime & Legal
9
Shelter Agencies for Families in East Texas

To provide shelter to abused families.

Human Services
10
Consolation Community Outreach

Consoation Commnity Outreach main purpose is to feed low income and poor families, we also provide them with daily needed essentials for free.

Human Services
11
Good News Foundation of Texas
Philanthropy
12
Texas Rescue Inc
Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Shelter Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 39 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
9/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,000,400 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $100,000 · Health+1 more: $30,000 · HealthRestore Reproductive Health: $206,000 · OtherRestore Reproductive HealthRonald McDonald House Charities of: $112,000 · OtherRonald McDonald House Charit…COMFORT YOUTH BASEBALL INC: $100,000 · OtherCOMFORT YOUTH BASEBALL INCARCHDIOCESE OF SAN ANTONIO: $100,000 · OtherARCHDIOCESE OF SAN ANTONIORANCHER NAVY TX CORP: $50,000 · OtherAmerican Friends of the Ocean Clean: $50,000 · OtherSouth Texas Christian Ministries Medina County Christian Job Corps: $75,200 · OtherSouth Texas Christian Minist…COMFORT TABLE AND FOOD PANTRY: $60,000 · OtherCOMFORT TABLE AND FOOD PANTR…THE CAJUN NAVY RELIEF INC: $50,000 · OtherSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $50,000 · Other+14 more: $197,300 · Other+14 moreMOTIVATE OUR STUDENTS OF TEXAS: $300,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE CHILDREN'S SHELTER FOUNDATION: $12,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMFORT PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $175,750 · EducationREY FEO SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $70,000 · EducationComfort Golden Age Center Foundation: $100,000 · Human ServicesMERCY CHEFS INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE DOYLE SCHOOL COMMUNITY CENTER: $45,000 · Human ServicesBOYSVILLE INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesHILL COUNTRY FAMILY SERVICES INC: $12,000 · Human Services+1 more: $4,500 · Human ServicesBLUEBONNET CHILDRENS CENTER: $100,000 · Crime & LegalDISABLED OUTDOORSMEN USA INC: $100,000 · Recreation & Sports
Health$2,130,400Other$1,050,500Youth Development$312,000Education$245,750Human Services$223,500Crime & Legal$100,000Recreation & Sports$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 budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,000,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMOTIVATE OUR STUDENTS OF TEXAS: $300,000 over 2y, 93% of budgetCOMFORT PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $175,750 over 2y, 35% of budgetBLUEBONNET CHILDRENS CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetComfort Golden Age Center Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDISABLED OUTDOORSMEN USA INC: $100,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetSouth Texas Christian Ministries Medina County Christian Job Corps: $75,200 over 1y, 51% of budgetREY FEO SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetCOMFORT TABLE AND FOOD PANTRY: $60,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetTHE CAJUN NAVY RELIEF INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetMERCY CHEFS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DOYLE SCHOOL COMMUNITY CENTER: $45,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetTHE BLOOD & TISSUE CENTER FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S SHELTER FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOYSVILLE INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHILL COUNTRY FAMILY SERVICES INC: $12,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPORT ARTHUR POLICE BLUE SANTA: $12,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetOPERATION BLUE SANTA: $11,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetChristian Assistance Ministry: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% 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.

San Antonio Area Foun…United Way of San Ant…The Community Foundat…San Antonio Food BankHarvey E Najim Charit…Methodist Healthcare …Nancy Smith Hurd Foun…Hal & Charlie Peterso…Greater Houston Commu…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…
San Antonio Area FoundationTX21.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 39 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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