· Private foundation
The Cooper Housing Institute
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $4k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $128k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $503k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $250,000 |
| RAND CENTER | $200,000 |
| UCSB FOUNDATION | $153,000 |
| MASSACHUESETTS HOUSING & SHELTER ALLIANCE INC | $150,000 |
| SOUTH COUNTY OUTREACH | $37,700 |
| TERNER'S FUNDERS COUNCIL- UC BERKELEY | $20,000 |
| US VETS - PATRIOTIC HALL | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL LOW INCOME HOUSING COALITION | $10,000 |
| PATHWAY HOUSING FIRST PARTNER CONFERENCE | $10,000 |
| JB BROWN FUND-LIFE STEPS | $10,000 |
| CENTER ON BUDGET & POLICY PRIORITIES | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF NON PROFITS | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $750 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $643k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 9 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $313k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MHMASSACHUSETTS HOUSING & SHELTER ALLIANCE2× · 2021–2024 · $450k · revenue +23%
- SCSOUTH COUNTY OUTREACH4× · 2019–2024 · $198k · revenue +123%
- IHIllumination Health Home formerly The Illumination Foundation4× · 2019–2024 · $161k · revenue +202%
Funded once
- HNHOUSING NARRATIVE LAB (NEW VENTURE FUND)one grant, 2022 · $250k
- MHMERCY HOUSING LIVING CENTERSone grant, 2021 · $50k
- TFTERNER FUNDERS COUNCIL- UC BERKELEYone grant, 2023 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Path is a non-profit with a mission to end homelessness for individuals, families, and communities across california by helping those in need with temporary housing, permanent housing, and providing supportive services to help clients…
The mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…
The fair housing foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to the elimination of discrimination in housing and promoting equal access to housing choices for everyone.
The California Housing Partnership Corporation creates and preserves affordable and sustainable homes for Californians with low incomes by providing expert financial and policy solutions to nonprofit and public partners.
To provide emergency shelter, hospitality, and services to homeless families, helping to eliminate their homelessness and place each family in a home of their own in about two months.
We provide low income housing
Our mission is to create housing and service options that model, with respect and dignity, sustainable, environmentally sensitive, affordable communities for people of limited resources.
To build capacity and community engagement to better serve the most vulnerable population suffering poverty and the homeless crisis.
We work to end homelessness through housing solutions, supportive services, and connection to community. we advocate for equitable and just systems that ensure all individuals and families will have a safe place they can call home.
Provide housing and services to the most vulnerable population, especially those transitioning from (or at risk of) homelessness or institutionalization, through a variety of innovative supportive housing models.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families Forward and the most unlike its peers is United States Veterans Initiative. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 32 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING & SHELTER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SOUTH COUNTY OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds Illumination Health Home formerly The Illumination Foundation ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSE LIVING CENTERS ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds Center on Budget and Policy Priorities ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL LOW INCOME HOUSING COALITION ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS HOUSING FIRST INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GRANDMA'S HOUSE OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY HOUSING CORP ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FORWARD ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF NONPROFITS ↗
- Who funds CHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FUNDERS TOGETHER TO END HOMELESSNES ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · St Joseph Health System Foundation · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving 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 Housing Institute 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.
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.