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The Peter & Judy Copses Foundation at a glance

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The Peter & Judy Copses 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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Social Science$850kPublic Benefit$750kHealth$385kArts & Culture$260kReligion$160kRecreation & Sports$130kEducation$50kYouth Development$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.2M
$100,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE ATLAS SOCIETY$200,000
PRAGER UNIVERSITY$150,000
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION$125,000
FREEDOM WORKS FOUNDATION$100,000
VAIL HEALTH FOUNDATION$100,000
COMMENTARY INC$100,000
RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION$100,000
NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE$100,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$75,000
CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION$75,000
USA HOCKEY FOUNDATION$50,000
KISSICK FAMILY FOUNDATION$10,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 77% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%PRAGER UNIVERSITY: $150k → 14%COMMENTARY INC: $100k → 17%THE ATLAS SOCIETY: $200k → 16%THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $125k → 14%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $75k → 17%FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $25k → 13%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $50k → 14%VAIL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $100k → 7%USA HOCKEY FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION: $75k → 9%RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%PRAGER UNIVERSITY: $100k → 14%COMMENTARY INC: $50k → 17%THE ATLAS SOCIETY: $150k → 16%FREEDOM WORKS FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $50k → 17%VAIL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $100k → 7%USA HOCKEY FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%PRAGER UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%COMMENTARY INC: $10k → 17%THE ATLAS SOCIETY: $100k → 16%FREEDOM WORKS FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $50k → 17%VAIL INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY: $20k → 7%KISSICK FAMILY FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE: $100k → 17%THE ATLAS SOCIETY: $100k → 16%FREEDOM WORKS FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $10k → 17%VAIL INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY: $10k → 7%NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE: $50k → 17%THE ATLAS SOCIETY: $50k → 16%FREEDOM WORKS FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE: $25k → 17%THE ATLAS SOCIETY: $50k → 16%FREEDOM WORKS FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%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

VT
NY
CA
CO
VA
TN
DC
GA
TX
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 12 repeat orgs$210k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against -8% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
2

Total granted

$2.4M
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
-8%

Still filing today

83%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthReligionArts & CultureSocial ScienceHuman ServicesEducationOther
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

  • TA
    THE ATLAS SOCIETY LTD
    4× · 2021–2024 · $650k · revenue +85%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $185k · revenue +59%
  • NR
    NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $175k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • EU
    EMORY UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • FF
    Foundation for Economic Education Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -8%
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
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
2
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
3
The Roosevelt Institute

To create a nation where everyone enjoys a fair share of our collective prosperity.

Education
4
The Reagan Foundation
Philanthropy
5
The Fund for American Studies

The fund for american studies (tfas) seeks to create a brighter, more prosperous future by preparing young people for leadership and teaching them the ideas of freedom and a free-market economy. founded in 1967, tfas organizes programs for…

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6
American Spectator Foundation Inc

The American Spectator Foundation is a non-profit, non-partisan media organization responsible for publishing The American Spectator. Through its editorial programs, The American Spectator strives to educate the public on new ideas,…

Education
7
Competitive Enterprise Institute

Competitive enterprise institute (cei) is a non-profit public policy organization dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. we believe that consumers are best helped not by government regulation but by being…

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8
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
9
Rodel Institute

The rodel institute is a nonpartisan center for leadership and intellectual growth. rodel helps america's most promising leaders reach their full potential as public servants, deepen their commitment to democracy and the rule of law,…

Philanthropy
10
Paulson Family Foundation
Philanthropy
11
The Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship & Political Philosophy

The mission of the claremont institute is to restore the principles of the american founding to their rightful, preeminent authority in our national life.

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12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Kissick Family Foundation. 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

13 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. 13 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
6/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC: $350,000 · OtherFREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INCPRAGER UNIVERSITY: $260,000 · OtherPRAGER UNIVERSITYNATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE: $175,000 · OtherNATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTEUSA HOCKEY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherUSA HOCKEY FOUNDATIONEMORY UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · Other+2 more: $40,000 · OtherTHE ATLAS SOCIETY LTD: $650,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ATLAS SOCIETY LTDVAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $200,000 · HealthVAIL HEALTH SERV…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $185,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN…COMMENTARY INC: $160,000 · ReligionCOMMENTARY I…CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 · ReligionCALVIN COOLI…THE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTE: $150,000 · EducationTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $125,000 · Public BenefitFoundation for Economic Education Inc: $25,000 · Social ScienceROBERT SMALLS LEGACY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Human Services
Other$975,000Arts & Culture$650,000Health$385,000Religion$285,000Education$150,000Public Benefit$125,000Social Science$25,000Human Services$20,000

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 budgetTHE ATLAS SOCIETY LTD: $650,000 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetFREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC: $350,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetVAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $185,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE: $175,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMENTARY INC: $160,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetTHE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTE: $150,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetUSA HOCKEY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFoundation for Economic Education Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetROBERT SMALLS LEGACY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetKISSICK FAMILY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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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 Peter & Judy Copses Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Peter & Judy Copses Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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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How do I get to The Peter & Judy Copses Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Peter & Judy Copses Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 16 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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