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The Cooper Family Foundation of Mn Inc at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% 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
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,400
Median grant
1
States reached
$174k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WESTWOOD COMMUNITY CHURCH$2,400
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $120) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%FREEDOM FARM: $120 → 5%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$60k · 11 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
14

Total granted

$60k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
+28%

Still filing today

45%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
HealthReligionPhilanthropyInternationalCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther
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

  • OH
    OPEN HANDS FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $7k · revenue +140%
  • JB
    JACK'S BASKET
    2× · 2021–2024 · $800 · revenue +115%
  • RM
    RIDGEVIEW MEDICAL CENTER
    2× · 2017–2020 · $750 · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • PN
    PARK NICOLLET FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +26%
  • CO
    CROSS OF GRACE CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
  • GS
    GLOBAL SERVICE OFFICE
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue -4%
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
Mercy House Minneapolis
Human Services
2
Royal Promise

Answering the physical and spiritual needs of the most vulnerable, through care and advocacy, to make disciples of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Philanthropy
3
Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless

Since 1986, open your heart to the hungry and homeless has worked to ensureevery minnesotan is free from hunger and homelessness. by partnering with organizations serving those in need, we grow donor engagement and raise awareness to…

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4
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
5
House of Charity

Feed those in need, house those experiencing homelessness, and empower individuals to achieve independence.

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6
Missions Inc Programs

See Schedule O.Established in 1895, Missions Inc. Programs is a multi-service non-profit organization with a long history of providing services to those who are most in need, each year offering thousands of people, whose lives have been…

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7
St John's Lutheran Ministries Inc

St. John's Lutheran Ministries is a community of diverse people sharing God's healing presence. Our mission is to provide living opportunities within nurturing environments of hope, dignity & love.

Human Services
8
Life House Inc

Life house works to reconnect homeless and street youth to their dreams with a vision that no youth will be left homeless, alone, uncared for, or fending for themselves on the streets. our comprehensive service model aims to engage and…

Youth Development
9
Pioneer Home Inc

Our Mission is to promote quality of life in a Christ-like way for those we serve by providing diverse and holistic care, focusing always on individual dignity and worth.

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10
Every Meal

Every meal's mission is to fight child hunger through community and school partnerships.

Food & Nutrition
11
Catholic Charities North Dakota

Guided by our values, Catholic Charities North Dakota serves people in need and advocates for the common good of all.

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12
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities Midwest Mn Wi Ia

To provide a "home away from home and offer support to families seeking medical care for their children.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Life Family Services; the most unlike its peers is Training Leaders International. 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

13 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. 13 of the 25 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WESTWOOD COMMUNITY CHURCH: $31,250 · OtherWESTWOOD COMMUNITY CHURCHUNIVERSITY OF MN ARBORETUM: $8,750 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MN ARBORETUMCRU: $3,500 · OtherCRUGIGIS PLAYHOUSE INC: $2,810 · OtherLOVE INC: $2,600 · Other+11 more: $8,025 · Other+11 moreOPEN HANDS FOUNDATION: $7,000 · PhilanthropyOPEN HANDS …JACK'S BASKET: $800 · HealthRIDGEVIEW MEDICAL CENTER: $750 · HealthTraining Leaders International: $500 · ReligionLIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $250 · ReligionWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $500 · InternationalThe Humanity Alliance: $450 · Community ImprovementMinnesota Children's Museum: $320 · Arts & CultureFreedom Farm: $120 · Human Services
Other$56,935Philanthropy$7,000Health$1,550Religion$750International$500Community Improvement$450Arts & Culture$320Human Services$120

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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 OPEN HANDS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL SERVICE OFFICE ↗
  • Who funds NEW LIFE FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds JACK'S BASKET ↗
  • Who funds RIDGEVIEW MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds Training Leaders International ↗
  • Who funds The Humanity Alliance ↗
  • Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds Minnesota Children's Museum ↗
  • Who funds LIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds Freedom Farm ↗

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 & Minnesot…The Blackbaud Giving …Ch Robinson Worldwide…The Minneapolis Found…Servant FoundationAmerican Endowment Fo…The US Charitable Gif…Mightycause Charitabl…The Richard M Schulze…Xcel Energy FoundationThrivent Charitable I…Renaissance Charitabl…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s 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 · 0–10%
    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 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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