Ohio · Nonprofit
COOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION
COOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION (Ohio) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,545,737 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR A BETTER WORLD INC ($1,975,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 66
- Grants received
- $7.5M
- Net assets
- $4.7M
What Cooperative for Education does
Mission
To provide educational improvement services and other charitable services to financially stressed communities and education institutions and educate north americans about guatemala, its poverty and educational services.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Coed's rise youth development program gets kids into school and ensures they can reach the milestone of high-school graduation (focusing primarily on evening the playing field for girls, who are often the first to be pulled out of school in guatemala). The program goes far beyond a traditional scholarship, providing tutoring and mentoring, comprehensive social support, and personal development opportunities that transform students into the next generation of leaders. In 2025, 877 girls and 274 boys benefited from rise.
$1,283,339 spentof which $551,156 as grants39% of program spendingThe bridges program creates awareness that drives people around the world to action through service, enabling individuals to discover how their gifts and talents can best be called forth to help others. In 2025, the bridges program educated more than 1,065 individuals around the world through 57 educational presentations (both virtually and in-person) and involved 138 volunteers in direct service on trips to guatemala.
$553,146 spent$211,246 earned by the program17% of program spendingCoed's spark reading program transforms students into enthusiastic, competent, and lifelong readers by providing children's books to impoverished schools in rural guatemala and training teachers in best practices for early literacy instruction. Throughout 2025, the program trained 210 teachers from 23 schools, benefiting 4,894 students. Studies show that kids in spark classrooms typically learn twice as much as kids in non-spark classrooms.
$515,429 spent16% of program spendingCoed's textbook program provides resources and training that empower guatemalan middle schools to transform their quality of teaching and learning. The program provides textbooks using a sustainable "revolving fund" model ensuring schools benefit from these resources in perpetuity and trains teachers in didactic methods. More than 22,613 students at 178 schools study every day with coed textbooks, including 236 students at 2 schools receiving coed textbooks for the first time in 2025.
$269,095 spent8% of program spendingCoed's technology program provides middle and high-school youth with badly-needed digital literacy training that positions them with necessary tech skills for future employment or further education, primarily by establishing computer centers in rural middle schools that lack the resources to enable students to compete for higher-paying jobs. 57 coed computer centers (including 1 established in 2025, serving 122 students) help to bridge the digital divide in rural guatemala by providing high-quality technology training to 13,934 students. An innovative sustainability model enables schools to upgrade their equipment on a planned replacement schedule with money saved in their revolving funds.
$279,225 spent8% of program spendingCoed expands access to high-quality secondary and post-secondary education opportunities through centro formacin multiple (cfm) boarding school, serving 38 female students in san raymundo, guatemala, and casa sofia residence house for young women attending university in guatemala city, serving one resident in 2025. In addition, 8 teachers at cfm received training in didactic best practices to improve learning outcomes for students.
$386,402 spent12% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,286,636.
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 $5.7M to $6.5M (+14%).
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: 2020 6% · 2021 5% · 2022 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of COOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Joseph Berninger
Executive director
Board chair
Brian Todd
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $408k → $1.2M.
17 of 66 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 FOR EDUCATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 66 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 FOR EDUCATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 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 COOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 37% · 2019 29% · 2020 16% · 2021 15% · 2022 21% · 2023 41% — 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
57% of COOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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 FOR EDUCATION draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 20 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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 FOR EDUCATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,761 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,761 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like COOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Asociacion Coed · disregarded
- Canadian Friends of Cooperative for Education · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION?
- COOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION (Ohio) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,545,737 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR A BETTER WORLD INC ($1,975,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION have?
- IRS filings report 66 organizations giving $7,545,737 in grants to COOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION?
- FOUNDATION FOR A BETTER WORLD INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,975,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 66 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing