How much does The Howard J Cooperman Charitable Foundation give?

The Howard J Cooperman Charitable Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $973,279 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 57 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Howard J Cooperman Charitable Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Philanthropy (86%), Human Services (4%), Health (3%).

Who are The Howard J Cooperman Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Shriners Hospitals for Children ($12k), Congregation Oheb Shalom ($12k), Friends of the Israel Defense Forces ($7k).

Does The Howard J Cooperman Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Howard J Cooperman Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Howard J Cooperman Charitable Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Wayne and Deborah Zuckerman Family Foundation Inc, The Florin Family Foundation Inc.

Where is The Howard J Cooperman Charitable Foundation based?

The Howard J Cooperman Charitable Foundation is based in PA.

The Howard J Cooperman Charitable Foundation

The Howard J Cooperman Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Howard J Cooperman Charitable Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$973k

Granted FY2023

Grants FY2023

States reached

$321k

Largest

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 2023.

Philanthropy$1.0MHuman Services$43kHealth$37kReligion$37kInternational$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$14kArts & Culture$5kEducation$5kOther$0

02FY2023 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k1 grant · $2k
$10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$250k+3 grants · $961k

$319,836

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
AMERICAN GIFT FUND DONOR ADVISED FU	$321,107
THE ACK 2020 FOUNDATION DAF	$319,836
JD COOPERMAN HJC FOUNDATION DAF	$319,836
SHRINERS HOPITALS FOR CHILDREN	$10,500
FRIENDS OF THE IDF	$2,000

02The need

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 (FY17–21, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

14%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$163k · 55 repeat orgs$975k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

55 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2023, 53 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$163k

$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

+7%

Still filing today

49%

53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $961k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesInternationalEducationHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

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

SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN
4× · 2019–2023 · $12k · revenue +126%
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
6× · 2017–2023 · $7k · revenue +53%
EF
ECLC FOUNDATION
4× · 2017–2022 · $7k · revenue +76%

Funded once

EJ
EMORY JEWISH STUDENT CENTER INC
one grant, 2022 · $2k
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +13%
YT
YESHIVA TIFERES TORAH OF BOCA RATON INC
one grant, 2018 · $1k

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.

Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education

Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture

New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health

Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.

Civil Rights

Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education

Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech

Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc

Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…

Community Improvement

Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International

The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education

American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Israel Tennis Centers Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Foundation for Diabetes Research. 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

51 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. 51 of the 95 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

48/51

Grantees still filing

34/51

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,091,378Philanthropy$54,395International$14,285Health$13,800Education$5,080Human Services$4,650Arts & Culture$3,600

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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY19.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Wayne and Deborah Zuckerman Family Foundation Inc · The Florin Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Chubb Charitable Foundation · American Express Foundation · The Hall Schultz Foundation · The Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Columbia 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 Howard J Cooperman Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Howard J Cooperman Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

11get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

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