· Private foundation
The Irv and Helga Cooper Foundation
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $165k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| MCGILL UNIVERSITY | $75,000 |
| FRIENDS OF IDF | $50,000 |
| HOPE OUTREACH CENTER INC | $50,000 |
| RICHARDSON CENTER FOR GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT | $40,000 |
| LOS ANGELES MUSEUM OF THE HOLOCAUST | $25,000 |
| THE BIRTHRIGHT FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CEDARS SINAI EMERGENCY MEDICINE | $25,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $25,000 |
| LEUKEMIA LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| ALLIANCE COLLEGE -READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BICYCLE ANGELS INC | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of The Irv and Helga Cooper Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 30% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 26% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
15 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CUCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY4× · 2019–2022 · $200k · revenue +32%
- HMHOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA4× · 2019–2024 · $185k · revenue +464%
PEACEPLAYERS INTERNATIONAL2× · 2021–2022 · $100k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- JFJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELESone grant, 2023 · $100k
- AIAMERICAN ISRAEL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $75k
- TATHINK AGAIN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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…
AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
The auschwitz institute for the prevention of genocide and mass atrocities is dedicated to building a world that prevents genocide. we aim to see every state effectively integrate within government the domestically developed function of…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.
The international institute on race, equality and human rights contributes to the promotion and defense of human rights, through training, technical assistance, advocacy, and strategic litigation conducted at the regional and international…
The organization is a non-partisan, membership based speakers' forum that connects business leaders, community members, and engaged individuals with shared interest in local, national, and global affairs. it provides an open and accessible…
To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.
Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Physicians for Human Rights Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bicycle Angels Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE OUTREACH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE RICHARDSON CENTER FOR GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA ↗
- Who funds PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds PEACEPLAYERS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE A HEART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASA OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds BICYCLE ANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association ↗
- Who funds Project Miracle ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Irv and Helga Cooper Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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