How much does The Leibner Cooper Family Foundation give?

The Leibner Cooper Family Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $177,068 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 111 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Leibner Cooper Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (28%), Arts & Culture (18%), International (16%).

Who are The Leibner Cooper Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hunger Relief International Inc ($388k), University of Rochester ($263k), Compassion & Choices ($130k).

Does The Leibner Cooper Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Leibner Cooper Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Leibner Cooper Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Annenberg Foundation, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund.

Where is The Leibner Cooper Family Foundation based?

The Leibner Cooper Family Foundation is based in NY.

The Leibner Cooper Family Foundation

The Leibner Cooper Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Leibner Cooper Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$177k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$50k

Largest

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$754kArts & Culture$469kInternational$426kHealth$382kPhilanthropy$175kHuman Services$52kCivil Rights$34kPublic Benefit$21kOther$0

02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k18 grants · $42k
$10k–50k6 grants · $85k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$539k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
HUNGER RELIEF INTERNATIONAL	$50,000
BROWN UNIVERSITY	$25,000
COMPASSION & CHOICES	$20,000
METROPOLITAN JEWISH HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION	$10,000
THE PLAY GROUP THEATRE	$10,000
WNET THIRTEEN	$10,000
EBMRF	$10,000
USA WARRIOR STORIES	$7,500
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM	$5,000
LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BROADCASTING FOUNDATION	$5,000
BOB WOODRUFF FOUNDATION	$5,000
COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS	$5,000
NW FOUNDATION	$5,000
914 CARES	$2,030
SAFEHOUSE PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE FOR NONVIOLENCE	$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 (FY17–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.0M · 48 repeat orgs$196k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

48 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

127

Total granted

$2.0M

$187k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%

+6%

Still filing today

75%

56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalOther

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

UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
4× · 2017–2023 · $263k · revenue +81%
CC
COMPASSION & CHOICES
9× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +169%
CF
CENTER FOR COMMUNICATION INC
3× · 2017–2022 · $109k · revenue +8%

Funded once

BU
BROWN UNIVERSITY - 012522 - BROWN ANNUAL FUND
one grant, 2022 · $25k
WS
WARRIOR SURF FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $17k · revenue +150%
IC
ISLANDERS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -25%

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.

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

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

Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International

American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture

The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International

The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

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World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment

National September 11 Memorial and Museum At the World Trade Center

The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…

Arts & Culture

Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health

The Poptech Institute

Poptech's mission is to accelerate the positive impact of world-changing people, projects and ideas. founded in 1996 by bob metcalfe (inventor, ethernet) and john sculley (apple, pepsi), poptech originally provided a forum to critically…

Education

Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Cerebral Palsy of New York City Inc; the most unlike its peers is Country Roads Foundation 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

115 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. 115 of the 185 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)

113/115

Grantees still filing

74/115

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,016,531International$418,525Education$414,989Community Improvement$332,225Arts & Culture$232,872Civil Rights$161,450Social Science$86,750

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 FundNY21.2× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Annenberg Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Viking Global Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Mutual of America Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Community Foundation of New Jersey · WK Kellogg Foundation · American Express Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get no government money at all

14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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