· Private foundation
The Cooper 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $197k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BILLY GRAY MINISTRIES | $90,000 |
| EMERGE MISSIONS | $56,850 |
| GEORGIA NATRUAL RESOURCES FOUNDATIO | $50,000 |
| GRACE FELLOWSHIP | $40,500 |
| AINBINDER EVANGELISTIC MINISTRIES | $40,000 |
| RELIANT MISSION INC | $24,000 |
| SOJOURNER CHARITABLE FUND | $20,000 |
| THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WINDER-B | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–20, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 27%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 10% of The Cooper Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 65% of the giving stays in GA; by stated purpose, 62%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EMEMERGE MISSIONS INC7× · 2017–2024 · $297k · revenue -8%
- BGBilly Gray Ministries Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $255k · revenue -49% · 48% of their budget
- AEAINBINDER EVANGELISTIC MINISTRIES5× · 2020–2024 · $123k · revenue +93% · 30% of their budget
Funded once
- MHMERCY HEALTH CENTER INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -4%
- COCITY OF REFUGE ATHENSone grant, 2022 · $35k
- COCITY OF REFUGEone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +0%
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.
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.
Ministering to churches in asia
To establish and support churches,to train national preachers,to construct & maintain orphanages, to operate medical clinics & hospitals
Spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ
Religious - promulgating the gospel of Jesus Christ
Missionary support ministry to pastors and missionaries in Africa and India. We encouraging and uplifting them with spiritual and devotional teachings of Jesus using the internet. Partners in winning souls for the Kingdom of God.
Missionary work in the nation of India
Offers counsel, formal & informal teaching served in a pastoral role, mentored groups,filled numerous speaking invitations, conducted discipling groups & provided spiritual, emotional and
Global Ministry for House Church Planting and Christian Aid Training of National workers Coaching and mentoring National workers Ground ministry for Christian Churches and Aid needs
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 31 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 EMERGE MISSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Billy Gray Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds AINBINDER EVANGELISTIC MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER CHARITABLE FUND ↗
- Who funds MERCY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ATHENS PREGNANCY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CITY OF REFUGE ↗
- Who funds Ministry Alliance ↗
- Who funds VOICE OF LOVE ASIA INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH WIND RECOVERY MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Summit Charter School Foundation ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Cooper Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cooper Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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