Tennessee · Nonprofit
Cooper Trooper Foundation
Cooper Trooper Foundation (Tennessee) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,525 to it, the largest being SAMARITAN FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $164k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $31k
- Net assets
- $442k
What Cooper Trooper Foundation does
Mission
Cooper Trooper Foundations mission is to champion the fight against childhood cancer through sibling support and research funding.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Cooper Trooper Foundation is committed to enhancing total family treatment and wellness through the development and distribution of Cooper Trooper Courage Kits. These kits assist parents/guardians in addressing the emotional needs of the well siblings of children diagnosed with cancer. Courage Kits serve as a reminder to siblings that they are special too, during the medical crisis their family is facing a time when they are often feeling left out. Courage Kits contain comfort and resource items created specifically for the siblings, and come in a knapsack that can be mailed directly to the sibling or distributed at the onset of diagnoses by hospital staff.
$74,147 spent79% of program spendingTo donate funds to help find treatments and a cure for childhood cancer.
$20,000 spentof which $20,000 as grants21% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $94,147.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $143k to $255k (+78%).
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.
48% of Cooper Trooper Foundation’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Melissa C Brookover
Executive Director
Board chair
Josh Cook
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $21 → $20k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Cooper Trooper 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.
How concentrated its funding is
Cooper Trooper Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
34% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Cooper Trooper Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 55% · 2023 50% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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 Trooper Foundation draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $404 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Against its field
Cooper Trooper Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Cooper Trooper 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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Cooper Trooper 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 Trooper Foundation?
- Cooper Trooper Foundation (Tennessee) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,525 to it, the largest being SAMARITAN FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Cooper Trooper Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $30,525 in grants to Cooper Trooper Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Cooper Trooper Foundation?
- SAMARITAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Cooper Trooper Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 6 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