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The Cooper Housing Institute at a glance

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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.

$885k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$1.3MEducation$213kSocial Science$200kFood & Nutrition$198kHuman Services$78kPublic Benefit$50kPhilanthropy$23kArts & Culture$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $128k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $503k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$9.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
NATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS$10,000
CENTER ON BUDGET & POLICY PRIORITIES$10,000
Individual grant recipient$1,500
CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF NON PROFITS$1,000
Individual grant recipient$750
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 (FY19–24, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FUNDERS TOGETHER TO END HOMELESSNESS INC: $300 → 16%PATHWAYS HOUSING FIRST INSTITUTE: $15k → 14%MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING & SHELTER ALLIANCE INC: $300k → 16%MASSACHUESETTS HOUSING & SHELTER ALLIANCE INC: $150k → 16%PATHWAYS HOUSING FIRST INSTITUTE: $10k → 14%THE ILLUMINATION FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%US VETS: $5k → 14%THE ILLUMINATION FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%US VETS: $3k → 14%THE ILLUMINATION FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%ILLUMINATION FOUNDATION: $538 → 10%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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 13 repeat orgs$680k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
10

Total granted

$1.6M
$367k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+80%

Still filing today

77%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $313k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitOther
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

  • MH
    MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING & SHELTER ALLIANCE
    2× · 2021–2024 · $450k · revenue +23%
  • SC
    SOUTH COUNTY OUTREACH
    4× · 2019–2024 · $198k · revenue +123%
  • IH
    Illumination Health Home formerly The Illumination Foundation
    4× · 2019–2024 · $161k · revenue +202%

Funded once

  • HN
    HOUSING NARRATIVE LAB (NEW VENTURE FUND)
    one grant, 2022 · $250k
  • MH
    MERCY HOUSING LIVING CENTERS
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • TF
    TERNER FUNDERS COUNCIL- UC BERKELEY
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
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
Path

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…

Human Services
2
Interval House

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…

Human Services
3
Fair Housing Foundation

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.

Housing & Shelter
4
California Housing Partner Corporation

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.

Unclassified
5
Family Promise of Orange County

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.

Human Services
6
Opport-Unity

We provide low income housing

Human Services
7
Oxnard Homeless Prevntion
Human Services
8
Housing Works

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.

Housing & Shelter
9
Affordable Housing Accreditation Board
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10
End Homelessness California

To build capacity and community engagement to better serve the most vulnerable population suffering poverty and the homeless crisis.

Human Services
11
Union Station Homeless Services

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.

Human Services
12
Shine Bc-La

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families Forward; 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.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 32 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RAND CENTER: $300,000 · OtherRAND CENTERUCSB FOUNDATION: $257,000 · OtherUCSB FOUNDATIONHOUSING NARRATIVE LAB (NEW VENTURE FUND): $250,000 · OtherHOUSING NARRATIVE LAB (NEW VENTURE FUND)Individual grant recipient: $250,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSOUTH COUNTY OUTREACH: $197,700 · OtherSOUTH COUNTY OUTREACHMERCY HOUSING LIVING CENTERS: $50,000 · Other+12 more: $109,250 · Other+12 moreMASSACHUSETTS HOUSING & SHELTER ALLIANCE: $450,000 · Human ServicesMASSACHUSETTS HOUSING & SHELTER…Illumination Health Home formerly The Illumination Foundation: $160,538 · Human ServicesIllumination Health Home former…PATHWAYS HOUSING FIRST INSTITUTE: $25,000 · Human Services+2 more: $7,800 · Human ServicesMERCY HOUSE LIVING CENTERS: $70,000 · Housing & ShelterNATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterNATIONAL LOW INCOME HOUSING COALITION: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterGRANDMA'S HOUSE OF HOPE: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY HOUSING CORP: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $60,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities: $30,000 · Public BenefitCHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY: $1,000 · Community Improvement
Other$1,413,950Human Services$643,338Housing & Shelter$150,000Philanthropy$61,000Public Benefit$30,000Community Improvement$1,000

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 budgetMASSACHUSETTS HOUSING & SHELTER ALLIANCE: $450,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetSOUTH COUNTY OUTREACH: $197,700 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetIllumination Health Home formerly The Illumination Foundation: $160,538 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMERCY HOUSE LIVING CENTERS: $70,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $60,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL LOW INCOME HOUSING COALITION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPATHWAYS HOUSING FIRST INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetGRANDMA'S HOUSE OF HOPE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY HOUSING CORP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILIES FORWARD: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF NONPROFITS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFUNDERS TOGETHER TO END HOMELESSNES: $300 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.

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Orange County Communi…St Joseph Health Syst…Sisters of St Joseph …Farmers & Merchants B…California Foundation…Edwards Lifesciences …Weingart FoundationThe Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA15.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Housing Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cooper Housing Institute. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 32 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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