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The Cooper Family Foundation of Mn 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.

$2k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,400
Largest grant, FY2025
$2,400
Organizations funded a year
5 to 11
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$174k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations The Cooper Family Foundation of Mn Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’23’24
ReligionHealthInternationalCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving1$2k0%
FY20249$9k33%
FY20235$8k0%
FY202111$4k55%
FY20208$6k13%
FY20197$9k29%
FY20187$20k29%
FY201711$10kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$35kEnvironment$9kPhilanthropy$7kArts & Culture$4kYouth Development$3kHealth$3kAnimals$2kHuman Services$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Westwood Community Church$31,2507n/a
Open Hands Foundation$7,00072%
Gigis Playhouse Inc$2,8104n/a
Park Nicollet Foundation$1,00010%
Cross of Grace Church$1,0001n/a
Global Service Office$1,00010%
New Life Family Services$1,00010%
Jack's Basket$80020%
Ridgeview Medical Center$75020%
World Central Kitchen Inc$50010%
Show all 17 grantees
All grantees of The Cooper Family Foundation of Mn Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Westwood Community Church$31,2507n/a
Open Hands Foundation$7,00072%
Gigis Playhouse Inc$2,8104n/a
Park Nicollet Foundation$1,00010%
Cross of Grace Church$1,0001n/a
Global Service Office$1,00010%
New Life Family Services$1,00010%
Jack's Basket$80020%
Ridgeview Medical Center$75020%
World Central Kitchen Inc$50010%
Training Leaders International$50010%
The Humanity Alliance$45030%
Union Gospel Mission Inc$43520%
Grace Church of Minnesota Inc$4001n/a
Minnesota Children's Museum$32010%
Lifeline Children's Services Inc$25010%
Freedom Farm$12010%

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($18k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Cooper Family Foundation of Mn Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOpen Hands Foundation: $7,000 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetPark Nicollet Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGlobal Service Office: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Life Family Services: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJack's Basket: $800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRidgeview Medical Center: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTraining Leaders International: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Humanity Alliance: $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUnion Gospel Mission Inc: $435 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMinnesota Children's Museum: $320 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLifeline Children's Services Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFreedom Farm: $120 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN18.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Servant Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Renaissance Charitable 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.

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About The Cooper Family Foundation of Mn Inc

How much does The Cooper Family Foundation of Mn Inc give?
The Cooper Family Foundation of Mn Inc reported 1 grants totaling $2,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does The Cooper Family Foundation of Mn Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (51%), Environment (13%), Philanthropy (10%).
Who are The Cooper Family Foundation of Mn Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Westwood Community Church ($31k), Open Hands Foundation ($7k), Gigis Playhouse Inc ($3k).
Does The Cooper Family Foundation of Mn Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Cooper Family Foundation of Mn Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Cooper Family Foundation of Mn Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Blackbaud Giving Fund, Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation.
Where is The Cooper Family Foundation of Mn Inc based?
The Cooper Family Foundation of Mn Inc is based in MN.

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 25 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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