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The Coovert Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$98k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$52k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Philanthropy$181kEducation$94kAnimals$65kHuman Services$62kArts & Culture$44kHealth$21kHousing & Shelter$10kInternational$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
$8,432
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ISABELLE COOVERT MEMORIAL DONOR ADVISED FUND$52,398
THE LINDELL CLUB$20,000
USO$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI$8,432
SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL$5,000
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH$1,000
HOUSE OF PURPOSE AND EMPOWERMENT$1,000
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 (FY19–22, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%JOE'S PLACE: $2k → 11%JOE'S PLACE: $1k → 11%PROMISE COMMUNITY HOMES: $1k → 11%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

MT
MI
NY
NJ
CO
MO
VA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$412k · 15 repeat orgs$107k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
20

Total granted

$412k
$96k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+83%
+106%

Still filing today

53%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $40k · revenue +83%
  • UO
    University of Miami
    2× · 2024–2025 · $13k · revenue +9%
  • TN
    THE NEXT STEP
    2× · 2018–2024 · $11k · revenue +321%

Funded once

  • LC
    LINDEL CLUB
    one grant, 2022 · $40k
  • MS
    MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $8k
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +106%
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
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
2
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
3
Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health
4
St Martin Hospital Inc

To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
5
Thomas Jefferson School

Thomas jefferson school engages its students in the education necessary to live as responsible citizens of the world. through the strongest possible college-prepatory program and within a nurturing community, students develop a…

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6
Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research

The foundation for sarcoidosis research (fsr) is the leading international organization dedicated to finding a cure for sarcoidosis and improving care for sarcoidosis patients through research, education, and support. since its…

Philanthropy
7
Marrakech Inc

Provides person-centered and inclusive services to children and adults with and without disabilities that includes securing employment, connecting to necessary supportive services, accessing housing and participating fully as contributing…

Employment
8
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
9
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
10
Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation Inc

The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…

Health
11
The Shriners' Hospital for Children

Shriners children's is committed to compassionate, high-quality care that improves children's lives, in a family-centered and collaborative environment. (continued on schedule o)

Health
12
Dystonia Medical Research Foundation

The foundation has three main purposes: (1)to advance dystonia research by awarding grants to basic, translational, and clinical investigators and to medical/scientific institutions committed to finding the cause and cure for all forms of…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Shriners Hospital for Children. 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

18 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. 18 of the 37 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
15/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ISABELLE COOVERT MEMORIAL DONOR ADVISED FUND: $178,398 · OtherISABELLE COOVERT MEMORIAL DONOR ADVISED FUNDSAINT LOUIS ZOO: $54,667 · OtherSAINT LOUIS ZOOTHE LINDELL CLUB: $43,724 · OtherTHE LINDELL CLUBLINDEL CLUB: $40,000 · OtherLINDEL CLUBST LOUIS UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL: $32,500 · OtherST LOUIS UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOLSALVATION ARMY: $17,000 · Other+16 more: $56,335 · Other+16 moreSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER…University of Miami: $12,648 · EducationUniversity of …THE NEXT STEP: $10,500 · EducationTHE NEXT STEP+1 more: $1,500 · EducationHILLJACK HOUSE INC: $6,500 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL: $2,000 · HealthADAM MORGAN FOUNDATION: $500 · HealthSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $7,500 · ReligionSHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $4,500 · PhilanthropyDRAVET SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · PhilanthropyGallatin River Task Force: $2,500 · EnvironmentBIG SKY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION: $2,500 · EnvironmentMADISON RIVER FOUNDATION: $1,000 · EnvironmentJOES PLACE CORPORATION: $2,500 · Human ServicesRAINBOW VILLAGE PROPERTIES INC: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$422,624Education$64,648Health$9,000Religion$7,500Philanthropy$6,500Environment$6,000Human Services$3,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $12,648 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEXT STEP: $10,500 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLJACK HOUSE INC: $6,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $4,500 over 2y, 23% of budgetGallatin River Task Force: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBIG SKY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDRAVET SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOCUS ST LOUIS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPASSION & CHOICES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENOUGH IS ENOUGH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMADISON RIVER FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRAINBOW VILLAGE PROPERTIES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds University of Miami ↗
  • Who funds THE NEXT STEP ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds HILLJACK HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds JOES PLACE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Gallatin River Task Force ↗
  • Who funds BIG SKY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds DRAVET SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FOCUS ST LOUIS ↗
  • Who funds CITY ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds COMPASSION & CHOICES ↗
  • Who funds ENOUGH IS ENOUGH ↗
  • Who funds MADISON RIVER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RAINBOW VILLAGE PROPERTIES INC ↗
  • Who funds ADAM MORGAN FOUNDATION ↗

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.

St Louis Community Fo…World Wide Technology…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…The Blackbaud Giving …Raymond James Charita…The Pfizer Foundation…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Natl Christian Charit…
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO19.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · World Wide Technology Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 Coovert Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Coovert Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report 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.
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How do I get to The Coovert Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Coovert 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 37 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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