Texas · Nonprofit
COOPER FOUNDATION
COOPER FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100 to it, the largest being GERSHON AND LOIS STERN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($100). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $100
- Net assets
- $102M
What Cooper Foundation does
Mission
To make waco, tx a better or more desirable city in which to live, which is accomplished by giving grants to local nonprofit organizations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
One of the four focus areas of the madison alexander cooper and martha roane cooperfoundation is community building and social services in the waco area. During the fiscalyear, grants were made for the following purposes: provide immigration legal services, fire prevention education & financial assistance to families with home fires, replace firefighting personal protective equipment, yard signs to promote safe, healthy communities, new flooring at compassion waco, expand girl scout programming, support community development work, expand reintegration program, support absorption of the family & foster care coalition into hot goodwill, support new nonprofit newsroom, support capital campaign at new center of hope, support the salary for a new development director at united way, provide race equity education and provide funding to build a habitat home.
$1,546,011 spentof which $1,325,990 as grants63% of program spendingAnother focus area for the foundation is arts, culture, and recreation. During the fiscal year,the foundation made grants for the following purposes: support the reinterpretation of the dr pepper museum's wilton's landing exhibition, purchase a new sound system, stage, pipe and drape,chair and install a new roof and support theatre stage redesign.
$221,526 spentof which $190,000 as grants9% of program spendingThree more focus areas for the foundation are education, health, and senior citizens. Duringthe fiscal year, the foundation made grants for the following purposes: membership renewal to philanthropy advocates, support infrastructure costs, provide new bank uniforms, hire a nonprofit consultant, support case management services, provide patients with no- or low-cost reproductive healthcare, repair walk-in refrigerator and renovate the kitchen facility.
$688,203 spentof which $590,261 as grants28% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,455,740.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $67M to $92M (+38%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Felicia Chase Goodman
Executive director
Board chair
David Lacy
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of COOPER FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
COOPER FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like COOPER FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 7 related entities
- Waco Independent School District - See Statement · exempt
- McLennan Community College - See Statement · exempt
- United Fund of Waco- See Statement · exempt
- Heart of Texas Community Health Center - See Statement · exempt
- Texas State Technical College - See Statement · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COOPER FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COOPER FOUNDATION?
- COOPER FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100 to it, the largest being GERSHON AND LOIS STERN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($100). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COOPER FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $100 in grants to COOPER FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of COOPER FOUNDATION?
- GERSHON AND LOIS STERN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COOPER FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing