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The Cooper Family Foundation I 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.

$2.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

International$1.9MCivil Rights$1.9MHuman Services$849kHousing & Shelter$751kPublic Safety & Disaster$525kEducation$360kArts & Culture$191kReligion$149kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
$100,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE NAGEN PROJECT INC$500,000
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$450,000
MET COUNCIL$300,000
AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE$200,000
ISRAAID US$175,000
EDITH & CARL MARKS JEWISH COMMUNITY HOUSE OF BENSONHURST$125,000
DOROT$100,000
BROTHERS FOR LIFE$100,000
HASBARA FELLOWSHIPS$100,000
HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION DBA PJ LIBRARY$100,000
INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF GLOBAL ANTISEMITISM & POLICY$100,000
STANDWITHUS$100,000
ZIONESS MOVEMENT$50,000
UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK - ISRAEL EMERGENCY FUND$50,000
SUNRISE ASSOCIATION$18,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $509k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 72% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BRIDGEHAMPTON CHILD CARE & RECREATIONAL CENTER: $1k → 7%BRIDGEHAMPTON CHILD CARE AND RECREATIONAL CENTER: $1k → 7%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SEATTLE: $50k → 9%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $18k → 6%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $16k → 6%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SEATTLE: $25k → 9%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $16k → 6%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SEATTLE: $15k → 9%ROOM TO GROW: $4k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $3k → 17%DOROT: $100k → 17%DOROT: $100k → 17%DOROT: $100k → 17%DOROT: $25k → 17%DOROT: $25k → 17%ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
CA
VA
MD
DC
LA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.9M · 26 repeat orgs$903k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +11% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
32

Total granted

$5.9M
$303k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+4%

Still filing today

85%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $600k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthCivil RightsEducationOther

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

  • BI
    BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $750k · revenue +3%
  • IU
    ISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $525k · revenue +60%
  • IE
    ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $375k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • HO
    HILLEL OF BROWARD AND PALM BEACH INC
    one grant, 2024 · $36k · revenue -8%
  • CO
    CHABAD OF PORT WASHINGTON
    one grant, 2017 · $36k
  • SM
    Survivor Mitzvah Project
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -6%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Jerusalem Connection
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2
Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.

Civil Rights
3
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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4
Connect Israel

Connect israel is a life-long program that aims to strengthen the gap between american jews and israelis through business, creative teamwork, and developing personal relationships.

International
5
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
6
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

—
7
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
8
Sherit Isroel
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9
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
10
National Council of Jewish Women Inc Jersey Hills Section
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11
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
12
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Nagen Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Lion Tales Foundation Inc. 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 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr15%6%5–10yr20%28%10–20yr19%30%20–35yr11%17%35–55yr12%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%11%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr19%41%20–35yr11%11%35–55yr12%20%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/48
the rest of the field
13%
15,862/119,290

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.

04the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 61 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/46
Grantees still filing
27/46
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $750,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATIO…The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $450,000 · InternationalThe American Jewish Joint D…ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE — $375,000 · InternationalISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCEAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC — $75,000 · International+4 more — $40,740 · InternationalMet Council Inc — $750,000 · OtherMet Council IncPJ LIBRARY — $250,000 · OtherPJ LIBRARYSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC — $150,000 · OtherSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US…UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK - ISRAEL EMERGENCY FUND — $100,000 · OtherHAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION DBA PJ LIBRARY — $100,000 · OtherEDITH & CARL MARKS JEWISH COMMUNITY HOUSE BENSONHURST INC — $350,000 · OtherEDITH & CARL MARKS JEWISH COMMUNIT…+27 more — $369,100 · Other+27 moreTHE NAGEN PROJECT INC — $500,000 · Civil RightsTHE NAGEN PROJECT INCAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $332,124 · Civil RightsAMERICAN JEWISH COMMI…INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF GLOBAL ANTISEMITISM AND POLICY — $250,000 · Civil RightsINSTITUTE FOR THE STU…ZIONESS MOVEMENT INC — $200,000 · Civil RightsZIONESS MOVEMENT INCISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC — $525,000 · Public Safety & DisasterDOROT INC — $350,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE — $90,000 · Human ServicesSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC — $50,000 · Human Services+4 more — $19,000 · Human ServicesSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC — $250,000 · Arts & CultureBrothers for Life — $150,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $15,500 · Arts & CultureHASBARA FELLOWSHIPS INCORPORATED — $350,200 · Education+1 more — $10,000 · Education
International$1,690,740Other$2,069,100Civil Rights$1,282,124Public Safety & Disaster$525,000Human Services$509,000Arts & Culture$415,500Education$360,200

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMet Council Inc — $750,000 over 5y, 65% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $750,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC — $525,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $450,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE — $375,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHASBARA FELLOWSHIPS INCORPORATED — $350,200 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetDOROT INC — $350,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetEDITH & CARL MARKS JEWISH COMMUNITY HOUSE BENSONHURST INC — $350,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $332,124 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC — $250,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF GLOBAL ANTISEMITISM AND POLICY — $250,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetZIONESS MOVEMENT INC — $200,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC — $150,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetBrothers for Life — $150,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE — $90,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC — $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHILLEL OF BROWARD AND PALM BEACH INC — $36,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSurvivor Mitzvah Project — $25,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL AND TOLERANCE CENTER OF NASSAU COUNTY — $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeinstein Health Fund Inc — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOLUMBUS TORAH ACADEMY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOOL CULTURE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSouth Bronx United Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT SOUTH INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPINK AID INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE — $3,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSTRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center Inc — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LION TALES FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetLANDMARK ON MAIN STREET INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAG HARBOR PARTNERSHIP INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAutism Communities Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAHAD - IN UNUM INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAMPTON BAYS BEAUTIFICATION ASSOCIATION INC — $300 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCAZALE COMMUNITY AND CULTURAL CENTER INC — $240 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundCombined Jewish Phila…Jewish Community Foun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…FjcThe New York Communit…The Goldman Sachs Cha…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…
Jewish Communal FundNY22.9× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Fjc · The New York Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer 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 I 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    6get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Cooper Family Foundation I Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Cooper Family Foundation I Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 61 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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