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The Cooper Matthews Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $384k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $325k
- $250k+2 grants · $724k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EXPLORE AUSTIN | $374,000 |
| CENTRAL AUSTIN HOCKEY ASSOCIATION | $350,000 |
| THE MEANING FOUNDATION | $225,000 |
| CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE | $100,000 |
| DELL CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| FLATWATER FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA | $36,845 |
| BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $35,000 |
| BREWSTER ACADEMY | $35,000 |
| DOG IS MY CO-PILOT | $30,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $25,000 |
| 4ATX FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| WEST AUSTIN YOUTH ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| WAVES OF IMPACT | $15,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $557k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 63% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 8 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k 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
- AEAUSTIN EXPLORE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +187% · 29% of their budget
- CACENTRAL AUSTIN HOCKEY ASSOCIATION4× · 2021–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +166% · 51% of their budget
- TFTHE FLATWATER FOUNDATON4× · 2021–2024 · $155k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- CCCONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +25%
- WOWAVES OF IMPACTone grant, 2022 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $15k
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.
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
The mission of texas 4000 is to cultivate student leaders and engage communities in the fight against cancer. we share hope, knowledge and charity through leadership development, grant-making, and our cornerstone event, a 4,000+ mile 70-…
ConnectAbility's mission is to empower those with life altering disabilities and their caregivers to reach their fullest potential.
Team impact is the only u.s. nonprofit that tackles the emotional trauma and social isolation experienced by children facing serious and chronic illnesses by matching them with a college athletic team. because no child should be sidelined…
To make all childhood cancers universally survivable by delivering new treatments to clinical trials through scientific discovery.
The organization's mission is to provide funding for the best cancer research ideas in san diego. all proceeds from curebound stay in san diego to fund innovative and collaborative cancer research.
Provide monetary or financial aid exclusively for charitable, religious, scientific, literary or educational purposes and to solicit, receive, maintain and disburse funds for these purposes and for the betterment of children.
The mission of teen cancer america is to increase survival and improve the lives of adolescents and young adults with cancer by transforming health systems to better serve their needs.
Uatx is a nonprofit dedicated to building a liberal arts university committed to freedom of inquiry, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse. to maintain these principles, the university will be fiercely independent financially,…
Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…
Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…
Advancing effective methodology and behavior analytic treatment to improve outcomes of individuals with autism spectrum disorder.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dell Children's Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Dog Is My Copilot. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 30% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
31 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. 31 of the 46 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 AUSTIN EXPLORE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL AUSTIN HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Meaning Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE FLATWATER FOUNDATON ↗
- Who funds 4ATX FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC ↗
- Who funds DOG IS MY COPILOT ↗
- Who funds Brewster Academy ↗
- Who funds WEST AUSTIN YOUTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds The Trail Conservancy ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds WAVES OF IMPACT ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds START UP KIDS CLUB ↗
- Who funds CONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY ↗
- Who funds FOSTER ANGELS OF CENTRAL TEXAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Texas Book Festival ↗
- Who funds WHEEL FUN ↗
- Who funds HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds GRAMMY ROSE DOG RESCUE AND SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds A WALK ON WATER INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds DIVINE CANINES ↗
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: Tecumseh Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · The Moody Foundation · Better Business Bureau · The Burdine Johnson Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Matthews Foundation 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.
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
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.
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