· Private foundation
The Copen Family Foundation Inc
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k34 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $52k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $260k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUTH SERVICE AMERICA | $160,000 |
| STATE VOICES | $100,000 |
| HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY | $30,000 |
| IEARN | $12,350 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE | $10,000 |
| REDWOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE | $5,000 |
| SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER | $5,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES | $5,000 |
| NATURE AND CULTURAL INTERNATIONAL | $4,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $3,141 |
| ADL | $3,126 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES USA | $3,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of those 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.
59 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 5 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $112k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- YSYouth Service America3× · 2022–2024 · $260k · revenue +52%
- OBOUTWARD BOUND INC7× · 2017–2023 · $59k · revenue +154%
- IIIEARN INC8× · 2017–2024 · $54k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- BCBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +11%
- AYAGUILA YOUTH LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +94%
- FRFLORIDA RISING INCone grant, 2020 · $33k · revenue -31%
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.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
World coffee research unites the global coffee industry to drive science-based agricultural solutions to urgently secure a diverse and sustainable supply of quality coffee today and for generations to come. our mission is to grow, protect,…
Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…
How this is measured
69 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 69 of the 114 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 Youth Service America ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STATE VOICES ↗
- Who funds ECOVIVA NFP ↗
- Who funds OUTWARD BOUND INC ↗
- Who funds EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds IEARN INC ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds BVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds AGUILA YOUTH LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA RISING INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds NATURE AND CULTURE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA INSTITUTE FOR REFORM AND EM DBA ORGANIZE FLORIDA EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds ONE ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA RIGHTS RESTORATION COALITION ↗
- Who funds Florida Immigrant Coalition Inc ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Sonoma County Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · New Venture Fund · The Ford Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Demos a Network for Ideas and Action Ltd · Sonoma County Vintners Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Copen Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Copen Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
- Ceres Inc: 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to The Copen Family Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to The Copen Family Foundation Inc 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.
Play a game based on Copen Family’s filings →