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COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT FUND OF CDS

COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT FUND OF CDS (Minnesota) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,306,911 to it, the largest being WILLOW SPRINGS CHARITABLE TRUST JENNY B STODDARD TRUSTEE ($700,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.8M
Funders on record
31
Grants received
$2.3M
Net assets
$573k
9/31 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 75%
01What it does

What Cooperative Development Fund of Cds does

Mission

To help start and grow cooperatively owned enterprises

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. In fy25, the Cooperative Development Fund of Cds had 37 active fiscal sponsorships agreements in force and received just over $1.74 million in charitable contributions and grants, primarily to support the work of startup co-ops. The fund distributed a total of $1.38m in total grants, drawn from current and past year contributions. During the year, the fund also received and administered a $750,000 congressional appropriation to support constructions of a food co-op in illinois via a grant from the us dept of housing and urban development.

    $1,394,392 spentof which $750,000 as grants$17,472 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,394,392.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($494k) Expenses 100 ($454k) Net assets 100 ($153k)2019 Revenue 38 ($190k) Expenses 48 ($216k) Net assets 83 ($127k)2020 Revenue 15 ($75k) Expenses 22 ($101k) Net assets 66 ($101k)2021 Revenue 132 ($654k) Expenses 34 ($155k) Net assets 392 ($600k)2022 Revenue 253 ($1.2M) Expenses 217 ($984k) Net assets 566 ($865k)2023 Revenue 265 ($1.3M) Expenses 209 ($949k) Net assets 802 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 160 ($789k) Expenses 369 ($1.7M) Net assets 221 ($338k)2025 Revenue 356 ($1.8M) Expenses 335 ($1.5M) Net assets 375 ($573k)
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Revenue (356)Expenses (335)Net assets (375)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.2M to $356k (−71%).

$157k
$133k
$102k
$601k
$867k
$1.2M
$356k
$668k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2025 43%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$41k
’18
−$26k
’19
−$26k
’20
$499k
’21
$265k
’22
$360k
’23
−$888k
’24
$235k
’25
5.2
months of
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.

Board chair

Martin Walsh

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

201820212022202320242025
Listed141312151314
Joined··+1+4+1+2
No longer listed··2131
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $25k → $364k.

15 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT FUND OF CDS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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 FUND OF CDS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

58% 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 COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT FUND OF CDS.

30%
largest funder
64%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 39% · 2019 100% · 2020 49% · 2021 52% · 2022 53% · 2023 55% — 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

29% of COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT FUND OF CDS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 29% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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 FUND OF CDS draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 5 states in all.

MN
IL
PA
UT
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’20
’21
’22
’23
Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $957k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT FUND OF CDS receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $750k on record.

Federal$750k
grants $750kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$750k

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 FUND OF CDS

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 Minnesota

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 8%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

74%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 37 states

AK
ME
NH
WA
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
KY
WV
VA
MD
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
HI
OK
MS
AL
GA
FL

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Cooperative Development Services Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT FUND OF CDS?
COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT FUND OF CDS (Minnesota) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,306,911 to it, the largest being WILLOW SPRINGS CHARITABLE TRUST JENNY B STODDARD TRUSTEE ($700,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT FUND OF CDS have?
IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $2,306,911 in grants to COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT FUND OF CDS, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT FUND OF CDS?
WILLOW SPRINGS CHARITABLE TRUST JENNY B STODDARD TRUSTEE is the largest funder on record, with $700,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT FUND OF CDS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 31 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