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The Coopersmith Family Foundation at a glance

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The Coopersmith Family 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.

$200k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Animals$294kCrime & Legal$251kYouth Development$167kHuman Services$155kHealth$118kRecreation & Sports$115kEducation$80kScience & Tech$34kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $195k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$35,000
DOGS INC FORMALLY SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC$35,000
FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION$35,000
THE SKILLS CENTER$30,000
CHILDREN'S DREAM FUND INC$10,000
CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION$10,000
SHELTER TO SOLDIER INC$10,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC$10,000
ST JUDES CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$10,000
GULF COAST JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES$10,000
THE BARKER ADOPTION FOUNDATION$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $281k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $106k → 10%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $30k → 10%THE BARKER ADOPTION FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $30k → 10%THE BARKER ADOPTION FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $25k → 10%THE BARKER ADOPTION FOUNDATION: $8k → 8%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $20k → 10%THE BARKER ADOPTION FOUNDATION INC: $8k → 8%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $10k → 10%THE BARKER ADOPTION FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%THE BARKER ADOPTION FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%THE BARKER ADOPTION FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%THE BARKER ADOPTION FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA: $3k → 14%GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA: $2k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
CA
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 13% of The Coopersmith Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Coopersmith Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$940k · 19 repeat orgs$315k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
17

Total granted

$940k
$225k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+6%

Still filing today

79%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Youth DevelopmentHealthHuman ServicesInternationalRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CO
    COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE FOR PAGE COUNTY INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $236k · revenue +3%
  • SG
    Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc
    6× · 2017–2022 · $221k · revenue +146%
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2024 · $65k · revenue +112%

Funded once

  • HG
    HAWKSBILL GREENWAY RECREATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • COMMUNITY ACTION STOPS ABUSE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +43%
  • KI
    KABOOM INC
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -19%
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
Make-a-Wish Foundation of the Texas Gulf Coast & Louisiana Inc

Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

Health
2
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
4
Special Forces Foundation

The special forces foundation provides immediate and ongoing support to the special forces community and their families.

Philanthropy
5
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.

Human Services
6
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
7
Special Olympics Inc

Special olympics strives to create a better world by fostering the acceptance and inclusion of people of all abilities through sports, health and education programs.

Recreation & Sports
8
100 Club of Arizona

To provide immediate financial assistance to families of public safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance their safety and welfare.

—
9
Los Angeles Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Spcala is dedicated to the prevention of cruelty to animals through education, law enforcement, intervention and advocacy.

Animals
10
Easter Seals Florida Inc

See schedule o for a complete description of the organization's mission

Health
11
Seattle Children's Guild Association

Seattle children's guild association advocates for seattle children's hospital through volunteer, philanthropic and community endeavors to ensure hope, excellent care and advanced cures for children.

—
12
Tuesday's Children

Tuesday's children provides healing and resilience for military families of the fallen and families affected by 9/11, turning pain into purpose while honoring their legacies. we exist to help families of the fallen and the 9/11 community…

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of the Mid-Atlantic Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hawksbill Greenway Recreation Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 40 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/34
Grantees still filing
21/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE FOR PAGE COUNTY INC: $235,500 · OtherCOUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE FOR PAGE COUNTY INCGULF COAST JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $40,000 · OtherGULF COAST JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INCFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · OtherFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INCDOGS INC FORMALLY SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $35,000 · OtherDOGS INC FORMALLY SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INCMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF METRO NEW YORK AND WESTERN NEW YORK: $30,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S DREAM FUND INC: $30,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION: $29,000 · Other+18 more: $137,500 · Other+18 moreSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $220,500 · Human ServicesSoutheastern Guide Dogs I…The Barker Adoption Foundation: $55,000 · Human ServicesThe Barker Adoption Found…+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE SKILLS CENTER INC: $64,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE SKILLS …GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SARASOTA COUNTY: $44,500 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCOR…GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $14,260 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS…+1 more: $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentHAWKSBILL GREENWAY RECREATION FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsHAWKSBILL …KABOOM INC: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsKABOOM INCST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $25,000 · HealthPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $22,500 · HealthPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $15,000 · HealthLIFE ROLLS ON FOUNDATION: $4,000 · HealthSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $65,000 · EducationSHELTER TO SOLDIER INC: $29,000 · Animals
Other$572,000Human Services$280,500Youth Development$126,760Recreation & Sports$115,000Health$66,500Education$65,000Animals$29,000

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 budgetCOUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE FOR PAGE COUNTY INC: $235,500 over 7y, 11% of budgetSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $220,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SKILLS CENTER INC: $64,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetThe Barker Adoption Foundation: $55,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF SARASOTA COUNTY: $44,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetGULF COAST JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF METRO NEW YORK AND WESTERN NEW YORK: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSHELTER TO SOLDIER INC: $29,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION: $29,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION STOPS ABUSE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKABOOM INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRM PYLES BOYS CAMP: $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCombat Soldier Recovery Fund Inc: $14,500 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $14,260 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLURAY VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD INC: $10,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S DREAM FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSUNCOAST VOICES FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-ATLANTIC INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHEPHERD'S VILLAGE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLIFE ROLLS ON FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPS I Love You Foundation: $4,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTENDER LOVING CANINES ASSISTANCE DOGS: $4,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NEW YORK INC: $1,000 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.

Community Foundation …Alvah H & Wyline P Ch…Rays Baseball Foundat…United Way Suncoast I…The Richard M Schulze…The Pfizer Foundation…Vinik Family Foundati…Pinellas Community Fo…Debartolo Family Foun…Publix Super Markets …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Enterprise Holdings F…
Community Foundation of Tampa Bay IncFL17× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Alvah H & Wyline P Chapman Foundation · Rays Baseball Foundation Inc · United Way Suncoast Inc · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vinik Family Foundation · Pinellas Community Foundation · Debartolo Family Foundation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation

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 Coopersmith Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Coopersmith Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Gulf Coast Jewish Family and Community Services Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Community Action Stops Abuse Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Children's Dream Fund Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Coopersmith Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Coopersmith Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 40 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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