· Private foundation
The Copen Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KEITH ALBEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $100,000 |
| WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| KINGS MOUNTAIN TOUCHDOWN CLUB | $8,000 |
| THE CATERPILLAR LAB | $8,000 |
| DEVELOPMENTAL THERAPY CENTER INC | $5,000 |
| CAMP DUDLEY | $5,000 |
| MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| KENTUCKY CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| XAVIER UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WFWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL8× · 2018–2025 · $123k · revenue +25%
Washington and Lee University4× · 2018–2021 · $12k · revenue +96%- RFRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC4× · 2018–2021 · $8k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- BHBAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $50k
- AHATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +79%
- AHATRIUM HEALTH SERVICES FBO LEVINE CANCER INSTITUTEone grant, 2019 · $30k
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.
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.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The mission of wingate university is to develop educated, ethical, and productive global citizens. following its judeo-christian heritage, the university seeks to cultivate the following in its students: knowledge, faith, and service.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Nebraska wesleyan university is an academic community dedicated to intellectual and personal growth within the context of a liberal arts education and in an environment of christian concern.
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
Houghton university provides an academically challenging, christ-centered education in the liberal arts and sciences to students from diverse traditions and economic backgrounds and equips them to lead and labor as scholar-servants in a…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Macalester is committed to being a preeminent liberal arts college with an educational program known for its high standards for scholarship and its special emphasis on internationalism, multiculturalism, and service to society.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
To graduate people of uncommon integrity, competence, and maturity, who are effective lifelong learners and responsible citizens, and who are prepared to contribute substantially to the world in which they live.
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 31 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 KEITH ALBEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DEVELOPMENTAL THERAPY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP DUDLEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CATERPILLAR LAB ↗
- Who funds KINGS MOUNTAIN TOUCHDOWN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Washington and Lee University ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WITTENBERG COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Copen Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Copen Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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