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The Copses Family Foundation at a glance

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The Copses Family Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$188k
Granted FY2021
4
Grants FY2021
3
States reached
$63k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Recreation & Sports$759kEducation$675kPublic Benefit$610kSocial Science$360kCivil Rights$10k
02FY2021 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $163k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
USA HOCKEY FOUNDATION$62,500
FREEDOM WORKS FOUNDATION$50,000
THE ATLAS SOCIETY$50,000
YOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY FOUNDATION$25,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 57% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TURNING POINT USA: $10k → 11%RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION & INSTITUTE: $125k → 10%REASON FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%YOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%THE ATLAS SOCIETY: $100k → 16%FREEDOM WORKS FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $100k → 14%USA SWIMMING FOUNDATION: $154k → 9%YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION & INSTITUTE: $50k → 10%REASON FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%THE ATLAS SOCIETY: $50k → 16%FREEDOM WORKS FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $75k → 14%USA SWIMMING FOUNDATION: $149k → 9%RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION & INSTITUTE: $50k → 10%HARVARD WESTLAKE SCHOOL: $125k → 14%THE ATLAS SOCIETY: $50k → 16%FREEDOM WORKS FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $75k → 14%USA SWIMMING FOUNDATION: $143k → 9%RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION & INSTITUTE: $25k → 10%HARVARD WESTLAKE SCHOOL: $100k → 14%THE ATLAS SOCIETY: $50k → 16%USA SWIMMING FOUNDATION: $138k → 9%HARVARD WESTLAKE SCHOOL: $100k → 14%THE ATLAS SOCIETY: $50k → 16%USA HOCKEY FOUNDATION: $63k → 9%JOHN THOMAS DYE SCHOOL: $100k → 14%THE ATLAS SOCIETY: $50k → 16%USA HOCKEY FOUNDATION: $63k → 9%THE ATLAS SOCIETY: $10k → 16%USA HOCKEY FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%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.
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 8 repeat orgs$145k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2021, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
3

Total granted

$2.3M
$120k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+81%

Still filing today

88%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21
EducationRecreation & SportsArts & CulturePublic BenefitOther
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

  • US
    USA Swimming Foundation Inc
    4× · 2017–2020 · $584k · revenue +22%
  • TA
    THE ATLAS SOCIETY LTD
    5× · 2017–2021 · $360k · revenue +171%
  • HS
    HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL
    3× · 2017–2019 · $325k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • TJ
    THE JOHN THOMAS DYE SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +81%
  • TP
    TURNING POINT USA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +190%
  • YA
    Young America's Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +49%
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 Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
2
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.

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3
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
4
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
5
The Fund for American Studies

The fund for american studies (tfas) seeks to create a brighter, more prosperous future by preparing young people for leadership and teaching them the ideas of freedom and a free-market economy. founded in 1967, tfas organizes programs for…

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6
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
7
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
8
Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies Inc

To provide thoughtful, conservative solutions to the challenges presented by education, workforce, labor and employment issues.

Education
9
R Street Institute

The r street institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, public-policy research organization ("think tank"). our mission is to engage in policy research and outreach to promote free markets and limited, effective government. (continued on…

Education
10
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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11
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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12
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Freedomworks Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute. 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

11 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. 11 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
10/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL: $325,000 · EducationHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOLTHE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTE: $250,000 · EducationTHE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUND…THE REASON FOUNDATION: $200,000 · EducationTHE REASON FOUNDATIONEMORY UNIVERSITY: $250,000 · OtherEMORY UNIVERSITYUSA HOCKEY FOUNDATION: $175,000 · OtherUSA HOCKEY FOUNDATIONFREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 · OtherFREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INCTHE JOHN THOMAS DYE SCHOOL: $100,000 · OtherTHE JOHN THOMAS DYE SCHOOL+2 more: $20,000 · OtherUSA Swimming Foundation Inc: $583,750 · Recreation & SportsUSA Swimming Foundation IncTHE ATLAS SOCIETY LTD: $360,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ATLAS SOCIET…YOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Public Benefit
Education$775,000Other$670,000Recreation & Sports$583,750Arts & Culture$360,000Public Benefit$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUSA Swimming Foundation Inc: $583,750 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetTHE ATLAS SOCIETY LTD: $360,000 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL: $325,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTE: $250,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE REASON FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUSA HOCKEY FOUNDATION: $175,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE JOHN THOMAS DYE SCHOOL: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetYOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $10,000 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.

American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Endowment FoundationOH10.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Copses Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Copses Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Copses Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Copses 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 12 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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