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The Cooper Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Cooper Family 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.

$285k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$46k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$362kReligion$315kEducation$231kHealth$210kPhilanthropy$206kInternational$92kHuman Services$50kCivil Rights$31kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $252k
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$109k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LUBAVITCH ON THE PALISADES$46,000
UJA FEDERATION NEW YORK$40,000
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$25,000
BRIGHTWAY EDUCATION FOUNDATION$25,000
JEWISH GRADUATE STUDENT INITIATIVE$25,000
THE BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$20,000
CHAI LIFELINE$20,000
CHABAD OF CLINTON$18,000
SAKS FIFTH AVENUE FOUNDATION$12,500
PROJECT EX$10,000
HILLEL AT BARUCH COLLEGE$10,000
CHABAD OF SOUTH PALM BEACH$5,000
NEW YORK SOLIDARITY FOUNDATION$5,000
CHABAD OF FOUNTAIN HILLS$5,000
CHABAD SE MORRIS COUNTY$5,000
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PROJECT EX: $10k → 11%ONE MIND: $10k → 9%CHABAD OF HAMILTON: $105k → 11%NEXTDOR: $10k → 14%CHABAD OF CLINTON: $20k → 16%JEWBELONG: $25k → 17%AIEF: $25k → 14%CHABAD OF SOUTH PALM BEACH: $10k → 11%BRIGHTWAY EDUCATION SERVICES: $100k → 9%LUBAVITCH ON THE PALISADES: $76k → 7%CHABAD AT HAMILTON: $80k → 11%CHABAD OF CLINTON: $18k → 16%AEIF: $25k → 14%BRIGHTWAY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%LUBAVITCH ON THE PALISADES: $50k → 7%JEWISH GRADUATE STUDENT INITIATIVE: $25k → 14%CHABAD OF HAMILTON: $20k → 11%CHABAD OF CLINTON: $18k → 16%JEWBELONG: $20k → 17%BRIGHTWAY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%LUBAVITCH ON THE PALISADES: $50k → 7%CHABAD OF HAMILTON: $15k → 11%TOURO COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY SYSTEM: $25k → 17%LUBAVITCH ON THE PALISADES: $46k → 7%TOURO COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY SYSTEM: $25k → 17%LUBAVITCH ON THE PALISADES: $35k → 7%MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $14k → 17%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 11%LUBAVITCH ON THE PALISADES: $35k → 7%LUBAVITCH ON THE PALISADES: $30k → 7%UJA FEDERATION NEW YORK: $40k → 17%UJA FEDERATION NEW YORK: $20k → 17%UJA FEDERATION NEW YORK: $18k → 17%UJA FEDERATION NEW YORK: $15k → 17%UJA FEDERATION NEW YORK: $15k → 17%UJA FEDERATION NEW YORK: $10k → 17%CHAI LIFELINE: $50k → 17%CHAI LIFELINE: $25k → 17%CHAI LIFELINE: $25k → 17%CHAI LIFELINE: $25k → 17%CHAI LIFELINE: $25k → 17%CHAI LIFELINE: $20k → 17%BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $40k → 17%AMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA: $20k → 17%THE FEDCAP GROUP: $25k → 17%FEDCAP REHABILITATION SERVICES: $25k → 17%THE BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $20k → 17%HILLEL AT BARUCH COLLEGE: $15k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
AZ
NC
DC
GA
FL
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 26 repeat orgs$457k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
33

Total granted

$1.3M
$375k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+2%

Still filing today

38%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k 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
InternationalPhilanthropyEducationArts & CultureReligionHealthOther
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

  • CL
    CHAI LIFELINE INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +58%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $138k · revenue +39%
  • BT
    BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA
    2× · 2018–2021 · $50k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • BE
    BRIGHTWAY EDUCATION SERVICES
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • FR
    FEDCAP REHABILITATION SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +13%
  • A
    AIEF
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
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
Sherit Isroel
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2
University of Judaism Foundation
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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
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…

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5
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
6
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
7
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
8
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
9
The Israel Institute Inc

The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.

International
10
The Jerusalem Connection
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11
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
12
American Friends of Bar-Ilan University

We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Israel On Campus Coalition Inc; the most unlike its peers is Saks Fifth Avenue Foundation. 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

30 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. 30 of the 68 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
19/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LUBAVITCH ON THE PALISADES: $339,770 · OtherLUBAVITCH ON THE PALISADESCHABAD AT HAMILTON INC: $146,000 · OtherCHABAD AT HAMILTON INCCHABAD OF HAMILTON: $140,000 · OtherCHABAD OF HAMILTONBRIGHTWAY EDUCATION SERVICES: $100,000 · OtherBRIGHTWAY EDUCATION SERVICESTOURO COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY SYSTEM INC: $50,000 · OtherBRIGHTWAY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Other+42 more: $338,995 · Other+42 moreUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $138,142 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH…BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $50,000 · PhilanthropyBOYS TOWN JER…SAKS FIFTH AVENUE FOUNDATION: $12,500 · PhilanthropySAKS FIFTH AV…+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyCHAI LIFELINE INC: $180,156 · HealthCHAI LIFELI…+1 more: $5,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $26,800 · InternationalAMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA: $20,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $20,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $13,578 · InternationalISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $6,042 · International+1 more: $1,800 · InternationalJEWBELONG INC: $45,000 · ReligionYESHIVAS OHR V'DAAS: $11,800 · ReligionAISH GLOBAL INC: $3,600 · ReligionJEWISH GRADUATE STUDENT INITIATIVE: $25,000 · EducationISRAEL ON CAMPUS COALITION INC: $15,000 · EducationHASBARA FELLOWSHIPS INCORPORATED: $10,800 · EducationMARYMOUNT MANHATTAN COLLEGE: $2,500 · EducationTHE FEDCAP GROUP INC: $25,000 · Employment
Other$1,164,765Philanthropy$205,642Health$185,156International$88,220Religion$60,400Education$53,300Employment$25,000

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 budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $180,156 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $138,142 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJEWBELONG INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHILLEL AT BARUCH INC: $35,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $26,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFEDCAP REHABILITATION SERVICES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FEDCAP GROUP INC: $25,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA: $20,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetISRAEL ON CAMPUS COALITION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHABAD OF SE MORRIS COUNTY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $13,578 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAKS FIFTH AVENUE FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetYESHIVAS OHR V'DAAS: $11,800 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHASBARA FELLOWSHIPS INCORPORATED: $10,800 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNEXTDOR INC: $10,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $6,042 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAWTCAKE REFUGE INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST: $5,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetI AM ALS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAISH GLOBAL INC: $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE INC: $3,357 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMARYMOUNT MANHATTAN COLLEGE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUTTY PAWS RESCUE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds JEWBELONG INC ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL AT BARUCH INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds FEDCAP REHABILITATION SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FEDCAP GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH GRADUATE STUDENT INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL ON CAMPUS COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHABAD OF SE MORRIS COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds SAKS FIFTH AVENUE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVAS OHR V'DAAS ↗
  • Who funds HASBARA FELLOWSHIPS INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds NEXTDOR INC ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds PAWTCAKE REFUGE INC ↗

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.

Jewish Communal FundCombined Jewish Phila…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Milstein Family F…The Jewish Federation…National Philanthropi…Jewish Federation of …Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Silicon Valley Commun…Paypal Charitable Giv…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
Jewish Communal FundNY27.3× affinity16 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 · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Milstein Family Foundation · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase 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 The Cooper Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cooper Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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 · 0–75%
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 68 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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