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The Cooperative Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$63k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
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States reached
$63k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Community Improvement$322kEmployment$49kInternational$8kEducation$6k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$62,915
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$62,915
02The need
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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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 16% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FORUM EXPENSES: $74k → 8%MERRIMAC VALLEY PROJECT: $1k → 10%ICA GROUP: $10k → 12%COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT INST: $5k → 14%DEMOCRACY AT WORK INSTITUTE: $8k → 10%THE WORKING WORLD: $5k → 17%PARAPROFESSIONAL HEALTHCARE INST: $5k → 28%THE INDUSTRIAL COMMONS: $10k → 13%FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN COOPS: $5k → 13%MANUFACTURING RENAISSANCE: $5k → 14%EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP EXPANSION: $5k → 7%VERMONT EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP CTR: $6k → 10%FORUM EXPENSES: $63k → 8%ICA GROUP: $1k → 12%DEMOCRACY AT WORK INSTITUTE: $5k → 10%THE INDUSTRIAL COMMONS: $5k → 13%NASCO: $5k → 14%EMPL0YEE OWNERSHIP EXPANSION: $5k → 7%FORUM EXPENSES: $62k → 8%MANUFACTURING RENAISSANCE: $3k → 14%EOX NETWORK: $5k → 7%FORUM EXPENSES: $43k → 8%FORUM EXPENSES: $33k → 8%FORUM EXPENSES: $6k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

VT
IL
NY
MA
OH
CA
VA
NC
GA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$338k · 6 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
10

Total granted

$338k
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+37%

Still filing today

67%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EmploymentCommunity ImprovementEducationFood & NutritionOther

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

  • TI
    THE INDUSTRIAL COMMONS
    2× · 2020–2021 · $15k · revenue +150%
  • DA
    DEMOCRACY AT WORK INSTITUTE
    2× · 2020–2021 · $13k · revenue +54%
  • TI
    THE ICA GROUP INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $11k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • VE
    Vermont Employee Ownership Centergraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue +28%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • PH
    PARAPROFESSIONAL HEALTHCARE INSTITUTE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +70%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
2
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
3
Community Cooperative dba Francesco Collaborative

Community Cooperative's mission is to support entrepreneurs and organizations advancing the cooperative and solidarity economy through connection to funding, training, workshops, networks, and resources that foster leadership in the…

Social Science
4
Cooperation L a

The L.A. Co-op Lab is a collective that builds capacity for worker ownership in Los Angeles as a pathway toward a more equitable and democratic economy.

Arts & Culture
5
Cooperative Network

Promote, represent & advocate for the cooperative way of doing business

6
National Center for Employee Ownership

To help employee ownership thrive.

7
Nyc Nowc Inc

The NYC Network of Worker Cooperatives is dedicated to sharing and cultivating the educational, financial, and technical resources of its members and supporting the growth of worker cooperatives for social and economic justice. We offer…

Community Improvement
8
Structured Employment Economic Development Corporation

Structured employment economic development corporations (seedco) mission is to advance economic opportunity for people, businesses, and communities in need as such, seedco designs and implements innovative programs and services that…

Community Improvement
9
Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation

The neighborhood reinvestment corporation (d.b.a neighborworks america) is a congressionally chartered public non-profit corporation that creates opportunities for people to live in affordable homes, improve their lives, and strengthen…

10
Montana Cooperative Development Center Inc

To promote and develop cooperatives to meet the economic needs and community needs of rural montana.

Community Improvement
11
Virginia Maryland and Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives

Trade association for electric cooperatives

12
Carolina Common Enterprise

The specific objectives and purposes of this corporation shall be to assist individuals and communities, particularly those in low-income and socially disadvantaged areas, in the creation, expansion, and improvement of rural and…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Industrial Commons and the most unlike its peers is Vermont Employee Ownership Center. 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $281,231 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE ICA GROUP INC — $11,000 · Other+5 more — $33,000 · Other+5 moreTHE INDUSTRIAL COMMONS — $15,000 · EmploymentTHE INDUS…DEMOCRACY AT WORK INSTITUTE — $13,000 · EmploymentDEMOCRACY…PARAPROFESSIONAL HEALTHCARE INSTITUTE INC — $5,000 · EmploymentPARAPROFE…Vermont Employee Ownership Center — $6,000 · EducationNORTH AMERICAN STUDENTS OF COOPERATION — $5,000 · EducationCOOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC — $5,000 · Community ImprovementTHE WORKING WORLD INC — $5,000 · Community ImprovementMERRIMACK VALLEY PROJECT INC — $1,000 · Community ImprovementFEDERATION OF SOUTHERN COOPERATIVES — $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$325,231Employment$33,000Education$11,000Community Improvement$11,000Food & Nutrition$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE INDUSTRIAL COMMONS — $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDEMOCRACY AT WORK INSTITUTE — $13,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ICA GROUP INC — $11,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMANUFACTURING RENAISSANCE FKA CENTER FOR LABOR AND COMMUN — $8,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVermont Employee Ownership Center — $6,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetPARAPROFESSIONAL HEALTHCARE INSTITUTE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH AMERICAN STUDENTS OF COOPERATION — $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCOOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WORKING WORLD INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEDERATION OF SOUTHERN COOPERATIVES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMERRIMACK VALLEY PROJECT INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

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.

WK Kellogg FoundationMI16.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: WK Kellogg Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Cooperative Development Foundation · The Kendeda Fund · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Wells Fargo Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Cooperative Charitable Trust 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 58%
  • Cooperative Development Institute Inc58% of income from government
  • Vermont Employee Ownership Center31% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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