· Private foundation
The Irv and Helga Cooper Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $180k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| MCGILL UNIVERSITY | $65,424 |
| HOPE OUTREACH CENTER INC | $60,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER | $25,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF IDF | $25,000 |
| CEDARS SINAI EMERGENCY MEDICINE | $25,000 |
| THINK AGAIN FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE BIRTHRIGHT FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| STAND WITH US | $20,000 |
| ALLIANCE COLLEGE -READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SCARRITT FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 5% of The Irv and Helga Cooper Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 30% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 26%.
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 +26% since the first grant, against -3% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AIAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $550k · revenue +2%
- CUCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY4× · 2019–2022 · $200k · revenue +32%
- HMHOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA4× · 2019–2024 · $185k · revenue +464%
Funded once
- JFJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELESone grant, 2023 · $100k
- AIAMERICAN ISRAEL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $75k
- CSCEDARS SINAI WOMAN'S GUILDone grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
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…
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…
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…
The organization's mission is to build an engaged and united israeli-american community that strengthens the israeli and jewish identity of our next generation, the american-jewish community and the bond between the peoples of the united…
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…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The international center for conciliation fosters dignity and cooperation in conflict ridden communities through reconciliation and community preparedness.
The mission of asian americans advancing justice-aajc (aajc) is to advance civil and human rights for asian americans and to build and promote a fair and equitable society for all.
The global summit is forging solutions to prevent all forms of hate-fueled violence.
Hillel's mission is to enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate and graduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.
Aipac is an american grassroots organization that works to strengthen the u.s.-israel partnership. our mission is to encourage and persuade the u.s. government to enact specific policies that create a strong, enduring, and mutually…
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 30 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 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 ALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAVE A HEART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
- 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 SCARRITT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Project Miracle ↗
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: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Irv and Helga Cooper Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Irv and Helga Cooper Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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