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The Copper Beech Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Copper Beech Foundation Inc

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.

$2.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$4.7MHealth$3.7MHuman Services$3.2MCommunity Improvement$1.9MArts & Culture$1.7MYouth Development$860kEnvironment$600kReligion$150kOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $250k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+2 grants · $550k
$35,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HILLTOP MONTESSORI SCHOOL$300,000
WEST BERGEN MENTAL HEALTHCARE$250,000
CHILDREN'S AID AND FAMILY SERVICES$225,000
ST PAUL'S COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT$225,000
THE VILLAGE SCHOOL$100,000
BERGEN VOLUNTEER MEDICAL INITIATIVE$100,000
THE PUTNEY SCHOOL$100,000
THE PHOENIX CENTER$75,000
MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$75,000
YOUTH CONSULTATION SERVICE$50,000
CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY$50,000
SERVANTS HEART MINISTRIES$50,000
HUDSON RIVER MARITIME MUSEUM$50,000
POCONO ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER$50,000
SADDLE RIVER DAY SCHOOL$50,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $3.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY: $15k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY: $15k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY: $15k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY: $15k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY: $15k → 16%CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY: $50k → 7%CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY: $50k → 7%CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY: $50k → 7%CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY: $50k → 7%CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY: $50k → 7%CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY: $50k → 7%CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY: $50k → 7%CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY: $50k → 7%CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY: $50k → 7%CHILDREN'S AID AND FAMILY SERVICES: $285k → 7%CHILDREN'S AID AND FAMILY SERVICES: $225k → 7%CHILDREN'S AID AND FAMILY SERVICES: $225k → 7%CHILDREN'S AID AND FAMILY SERVICES: $225k → 7%CHILDREN'S AID AND FAMILY SERVICES: $225k → 7%CHILDREN'S AID AND FAMILY SERVICES: $225k → 7%CHILDREN'S AID AND FAMILY SERVICES: $225k → 7%CHILDREN'S AID AND FAMILY SERVICES: $225k → 7%CHILDREN'S AID AND FAMILY SERVICES: $225k → 7%YOUTH CONSULTATION SERVICE: $75k → 7%YOUTH CONSULTATION SERVICE: $75k → 7%YOUTH CONSULTATION SERVICE: $50k → 7%YOUTH CONSULTATION SERVICE: $50k → 7%YOUTH CONSULTATION SERVICE: $50k → 7%YOUTH CONSULTATION SERVICE: $50k → 7%YOUTH CONSULTATION SERVICE: $50k → 7%YOUTH CONSULTATION SERVICE: $50k → 7%YOUTH CONSULTATION SERVICE: $50k → 7%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

VT
NH
NY
PA
NJ
RI
CA
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 43 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

43 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
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Total granted

$17M
$65k

Still filing today

67%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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

  • WB
    WEST BERGEN MENTAL HEALTHCARE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +14%
  • CA
    CHILDREN'S AID AND FAMILY SERVICES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +145%
  • HM
    HILLTOP MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • FC
    FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND - GREAT CHARITY CHALLENGE
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • SS
    SOCIAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • H
    HATCHSPACE
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
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
Hampshire Country School

Hampshire country school is a place of possibilities for high-ability, neurodiverse students enrolling in later elementary or middle school who have not found success in traditional educational environments. hampshire country school offers…

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2
Buckley Country Day School

The school's mission is grounded in the belief expressed by b. lord buckley that opening the eyes and awakening the mind is the essence of education. guided by that mission for almost a century, buckley has purposely focused on developing…

Education
3
The Bement School Inc

The bement school provides an education based on time-honored school traditions and values for children in kindergarten through ninth grade, day and boarding. from the classrooms to the dorms, we live and learn as a family, while…

Education
4
Capucine Montessori School Inc

Capucine montessori school is a french/english, dual immersion, serving children ages 2.9 to 6 years, and their families.

Education
5
Cape Henry Collegiate School Inc

We know, value, and challenge each student. we commit to building a diverse and inclusive community. we graduate independent thinkers and globally aware citizens.

Education
6
The Children's Ctr At Suny Morrisville State College Inc

The center's mission is to provide quality childcare services to the morrisville state college campus and the local community in a safe and nurturing environment which promotes the social, emotional, physical, language and cognitive…

Unclassified
7
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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8
Bronx Community Charter School

Bronx community charter school is a small learning community founded on the principles that children learn best when they are active participants in their own learning. our students raise questions about the world around them, engage with…

Education
9
The Arbor School

To educate, empower, and build hope for children with significant special needs and their families.

Education
10
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
11
New Jersey Public Charter Schools Association a Nj Non Profit Corporation

To advance educational choice for new jersey's children through quality public charter schools.

Education
12
Morristown-Beard School

Morristown beard school is an educational college preparatory school in grades 6 to 12 located in morristown, new jersey.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Village School Inc; the most unlike its peers is Pember Library and Museum. 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

29 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. 29 of the 46 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
17/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WEST BERGEN MENTAL HEALTHCARE INC: $2,100,000 · OtherWEST BERGEN MENTAL HEALTHCARE INCPUTNEY SCHOOL INC: $800,000 · OtherPUTNEY SCHOOL INCFRIENDS OF PHILIP'S NEWARK INC: $600,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF PHILIP'S NEWARK INCSADDLE RIVER DAY SCHOOL INC: $600,000 · OtherSADDLE RIVER DAY SCHOOL INCTHE VILLAGE SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN: $550,000 · OtherTHE VILLAGE SCHOOL FOR CHILDRENTHE VILLAGE SCHOOL INC: $500,000 · OtherTHE VILLAGE SCHOOL INC+22 more: $1,775,340 · Other+22 moreCHILDREN'S AID AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $2,085,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S AID AND F…YOUTH CONSULTATION SERVICE INC: $500,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH CONSULTATION S…CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY INC: $450,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR HOPE AND …+1 more: $75,000 · Human ServicesHILLTOP MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC: $1,200,000 · EducationHILLTOP MONTESSORI S…MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $675,000 · EducationMONTCLAIR STATE UNIV…THE PHOENIX CENTER INC: $675,000 · EducationTHE PHOENIX CENTER I…IN-SIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECT INC: $305,000 · EducationIN-SIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY…CORA INCORPORATED: $135,000 · EducationCATIES CAUSE INC: $120,000 · EducationST PAULS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $1,875,000 · Community ImprovementST PAULS COMM…FRIENDS OF ALGIERS VILLAGE INC: $200,000 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS OF AL…FRIENDS OF THE BRATTLEBORO MUSIC CENTER INC: $625,000 · Arts & CultureHUDSON RIVER MARITIME MUSEUM: $450,000 · Arts & CultureBROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE INC: $45,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,500 · Arts & CultureBERGEN VOLUNTEER MEDICAL INITIATIVE INC: $700,000 · HealthPOCONO ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER INC: $400,000 · Environment
Other$6,925,340Human Services$3,110,000Education$3,110,000Community Improvement$2,075,000Arts & Culture$1,122,500Health$700,000Environment$400,000

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 budgetWEST BERGEN MENTAL HEALTHCARE INC: $2,100,000 over 9y, 2.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S AID AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $2,085,000 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetST PAULS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $1,875,000 over 8y, 21% of budgetHILLTOP MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC: $1,200,000 over 9y, 7.8% of budgetPUTNEY SCHOOL INC: $800,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetBERGEN VOLUNTEER MEDICAL INITIATIVE INC: $700,000 over 9y, 4.9% of budgetMONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $675,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetTHE PHOENIX CENTER INC: $675,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE BRATTLEBORO MUSIC CENTER INC: $625,000 over 9y, 17% of budgetFRIENDS OF PHILIP'S NEWARK INC: $600,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetSADDLE RIVER DAY SCHOOL INC: $600,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetYOUTH CONSULTATION SERVICE INC: $500,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VILLAGE SCHOOL INC: $500,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetCENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY INC: $450,000 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetHUDSON RIVER MARITIME MUSEUM: $450,000 over 9y, 7.0% of budgetPOCONO ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER INC: $400,000 over 8y, 4.8% of budgetIN-SIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECT INC: $305,000 over 9y, 19% of budgetFRIENDS OF ALGIERS VILLAGE INC: $200,000 over 2y, 59% of budgetPEMBER LIBRARY AND MUSEUM: $185,340 over 2y, 37% of budgetWILLIAM LAWRENCE CAMP INC: $160,000 over 5y, 9.4% of budgetSERVANTS HEART MINISTRIES: $150,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetCORA INCORPORATED: $135,000 over 9y, 5.8% of budgetCATIES CAUSE INC: $120,000 over 3y, 81% of budgetTHOUSAND CURRENTS: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH PORCH WOMEN & INFANTS' CENTER: $50,000 over 9y, 12% of budgetPRO ARTE CHORALE INC: $45,000 over 9y, 11% of budgetBROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE INC: $45,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetTHE RIDGEWOOD ART INSTITUTE INC: $2,500 over 5y, 0.8% 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 WEST BERGEN MENTAL HEALTHCARE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S AID AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds ST PAULS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
  • Who funds HILLTOP MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds PUTNEY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds BERGEN VOLUNTEER MEDICAL INITIATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PHOENIX CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE BRATTLEBORO MUSIC CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF PHILIP'S NEWARK INC ↗
  • Who funds SADDLE RIVER DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH CONSULTATION SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE VILLAGE SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY INC ↗
  • Who funds HUDSON RIVER MARITIME MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds POCONO ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds IN-SIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF ALGIERS VILLAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds PEMBER LIBRARY AND MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAM LAWRENCE CAMP INC ↗
  • Who funds SERVANTS HEART MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds CORA INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds CATIES CAUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds THOUSAND CURRENTS ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds NORTH PORCH WOMEN & INFANTS' CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PRO ARTE CHORALE INC ↗
  • Who funds BROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE 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.

Pseg Foundation IncCommunity Foundation …Lillian P Schenck Tw …Columbia Bank Foundat…The Bessemer Giving F…Kearnybank Foundation…Blue Foundry Charitab…E and S Van Houten Me…The Kaplen FoundationAlfred N Sanzari Fami…Table to Table IncThe Provident Bank Fo…
Pseg Foundation IncNJ23.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pseg Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Lillian P Schenck Tw Lps Fund · Columbia Bank Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Kearnybank Foundation Inc · Blue Foundry Charitable Foundation Inc · E and S Van Houten Memorial Fund · The Kaplen Foundation · Alfred N Sanzari Family Foundation Inc · Table to Table Inc · The Provident Bank 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 Copper Beech Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Copper Beech Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Center for Hope and Safety Inc: 69% of income from government
  • Youth Consultation Service Inc: 6% of income from government
  • West Bergen Mental Healthcare Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Hilltop Montessori School Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Children's Aid and Family Services Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Phoenix Center Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Saddle River Day School Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.

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 46 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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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home