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The Kopf Family Foundation at a glance

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The Kopf Family Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$60k
Granted FY2026still arriving
5
Grants FY2026still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2026.

Education$58kRecreation & Sports$40kAnimals$34kArts & Culture$17kHuman Services$10kHealth$7kReligion$6kEnvironment$5kOther$0
02FY2026 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTER FOR HOPE$25,000
DELRAY BEACH YOUTH TENNIS FOUNDATION$10,000
THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE$10,000
JOEY'S PAW$10,000
GULF STREAM SCHOOL$5,000
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 (FY20–23, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%VERLAND FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%UNION AID SOCIETY: $2k → 11%UNION AID SOCIETY: $1k → 11%UNION AID SOCIETY: $500 → 11%UNION AID SOCIETY: $500 → 11%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

NY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
KY
VA
TN
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.

35%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$66k · 13 repeat orgs$120k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2026, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
21

Total granted

$66k
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
0%

Still filing today

69%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
EducationAnimalsHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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

  • SA
    SEWICKLEY ACADEMY
    2× · 2021–2025 · $12k · revenue +22%
  • JP
    Joeys Paw Inc
    2× · 2023–2026 · $11k · revenue +7%
  • SC
    STEEL CITY SQUASH INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $5k · revenue +552%

Funded once

  • PS
    POMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2025 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • TL
    THE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL
    one grant, 2025 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • Vanderbilt University
    one grant, 2025 · $10k · revenue 0%
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
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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2
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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3
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
4
Welsh Hills School

Independent educational program for children ages 12 weeks through 12th grade.

Education
5
The Waldorf School Inc

The waldorf school of lexington nurtures each child's curiosity, ingenuity, and love of learning so that they can meet the future with wonder, confidence, and resilience.

Education
6
Trustees of Deerfield Academy

Deerfield academy is an independent secondary school committed to high standards of scholarship, citizenship, and personal responsibility. through a rigorous liberal arts curriculum, extensive co-curricular program, and supportive…

Education
7
Somerset County Foundation for Higher Education

To support somerset county, pennsylvania residents in obtaining post- secondary education.

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8
Hill Top Preparatory School

Hill top preparatory school provides life-changing experiences for bright and creative students who struggle to achieve academic and social success due to performance-based learning differences including adhd, high functioning autism…

Education
9
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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10
Valley Day School

Valley day school is a private, non-profit, state-funded, special education school licensed by the pennsylvania department of education for students who are experiencing learning and/or adjustment difficulties.

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11
The Public School of Germantown

Germantown academy inspires students to be independent in thought; confident in expression; compassionate in spirit; collaborative in action; and honorable in deed. germantown academy is a private school educating students from pre-k…

Education
12
Suffield Academy

Suffield Academy is a coeducational independent secondary school serving a diverse student body of day and boarding students from across the United States and from many foreign counties. The school is grounded in a tradition of academic…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sarah Heinz House Association; the most unlike its peers is Joeys Paw Inc. 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

27 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. 27 of the 38 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
15/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SEWICKLEY ACADEMY: $12,000 · EducationSEWICKLEY ACADEMYDELRAY BEACH YOUTH TENNIS FOUNDATION COR: $10,000 · EducationDELRAY BEACH YOUTH TENNIS FOUNDATION CORPOMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $10,000 · EducationPOMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATEDTHE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationTHE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CH…Vanderbilt University: $10,000 · EducationVanderbilt UniversitySTEEL CITY SQUASH INC: $5,000 · EducationSTEEL CITY SQUASH INCGULF STREAM SCHOOL INC: $5,000 · EducationGULF STREAM SCHOOL INCSewickley Public Library: $3,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE SEWICKLEY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $6,500 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE SEWICKLEY PUBLI…SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST: $6,000 · OtherSHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUSTSARAH HEINZ HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · OtherSARAH HEINZ HOUSE ASSOCIATIONST MATTHEW AME ZION CHURCH: $4,500 · OtherST MATTHEW AME ZION CHURCHMOUNT VERNON LADIES ASSOCIATION: $3,500 · OtherMOUNT VERNON LADIES ASSOCIATIO…WARREN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $3,000 · OtherWARREN HISTORICAL SOCIETYIndividual grant recipient: $3,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $3,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPAART: $3,000 · OtherPAARTFAMILIES FORWARD: $3,000 · OtherFAMILIES FORWARDOSPOC: $2,000 · OtherMARY & ALEXANDER LAUGHLIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $2,500 · Other+5 more: $5,500 · Other+5 moreJoeys Paw Inc: $11,000 · AnimalsJoeys Paw IncTHOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE FOUNDATI DBA THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE: $10,000 · AnimalsTHOROUGHBRED AFTE…THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $3,000 · AnimalsTHE DAVID SHELDRI…THOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · AnimalsTHOROUGHBRED RETI…NO DOG LEFT BEHIND INC: $2,000 · AnimalsNO DOG LEFT BEHIN…CENTER FOR HOPE: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsCENTER FOR HOPEHistorical Society of Haddonfield: $3,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL CHURCHILL SOCIETY: $3,000 · Arts & CultureUnion Aid Society: $3,500 · Human ServicesVERLAND FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesALLEGHENY LAND TRUST: $3,500 · EnvironmentFERN HOLLOW NATURE CENTER INC: $1,500 · Environment
Education$66,000Other$50,500Animals$28,000Recreation & Sports$25,000Arts & Culture$6,000Human Services$5,500Environment$5,000

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 budgetSEWICKLEY ACADEMY: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJoeys Paw Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetDELRAY BEACH YOUTH TENNIS FOUNDATION COR: $10,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetPOMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE SEWICKLEY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $6,500 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetSARAH HEINZ HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSTEEL CITY SQUASH INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetUnion Aid Society: $3,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetALLEGHENY LAND TRUST: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CHURCHILL SOCIETY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSewickley Public Library: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILIES FORWARD: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARY & ALEXANDER LAUGHLIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVERLAND FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNO DOG LEFT BEHIND INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFERN HOLLOW NATURE CENTER INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCHILD HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF SEWICKLEY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFoundation 66 Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $1,000 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.

The Pittsburgh Founda…Glen and Diane Meakem…Rp Simmons Family Fou…Hillman Family Founda…Thomas Marshall Found…Wp Snyder III Charita…The Peirce Family Fou…Child Health Associat…Clapp G H Decd Char a…Richard King Mellon F…Proteus FoundationMcCune Foundation Pnc…
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA25.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Glen and Diane Meakem Foundation Inc · Rp Simmons Family Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Thomas Marshall Foundation · Wp Snyder III Charitable Fund · The Peirce Family Foundation Inc · Child Health Association of Sewickley Inc · Clapp G H Decd Char and Ed Tr · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Proteus Foundation · McCune Foundation Pnc Bank Na

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 Kopf Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kopf Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    6get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 38 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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