Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $681,748 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($393,718). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $682k
- Net assets
- $11M
What Cooperative Development Foundation does
Mission
To promote and develop cooperatives to improve economic opportunities for all.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
National Co-op Support System - CDF strengthens and aligns co-op support organizations - such as researchers, funders, and developers - to ensure cooperatives can access actionable knowledge, patient capital, and high quality education and technical assistance.
$2,576,409 spentof which $2,576,409 as grants$9,051 earned by the program57% of program spendingCross-Sector Outreach & Leadership Development - CDF engages and builds the capacity of new cooperators, including young people and people in adjacent movements, and offer cross-sector training and leadership development.
$1,564,359 spentof which $810,416 as grants$8,200 earned by the program35% of program spendingPlace-Based Demonstration - Through local demonstrations, CDF learns what it takes to create robust and connected cooperative economies, and we spread the resulting models to other communities.
$376,744 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,517,512.
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 2020 to 2021, from $11M to $12M (+4%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 22% · 2019 32% · 2020 22% · 2021 28% · 2022 12% · 2023 20% · 2024 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 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
Julie Bosland
Executive Director
Board chair
John Holdsclaw IV
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $20k → $69k.
5 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $40k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Cooperative Development Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 13 of 14 funders by total. 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
COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2019 93% · 2020 83% · 2021 54% · 2022 36% · 2023 73% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
60% of COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 29% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states 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
COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,551 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,551 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.0M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$4.0M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
56%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 35 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- National Cooperative Business Association · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT 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 COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION?
- COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $681,748 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($393,718). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $681,748 in grants to COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION?
- THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $393,718 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 14 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