Cooper Foundation
EIN 47-0401230 · files IRS 990-PF
Where it gives
By cause and by place, from its own returns.
By cause
The cause each recipient registered with the IRS
Mostly grants abroad and recipients without a US registration. Shown, never hidden.
By place
Dollars received, by the recipient's state
half the top state or more10–50%2–10%under 2%
Grants abroad and place not on file: 174 grants · $2.6m
Who it funds most
55 of its 87 grantees were funded in more than one year.
Cooper Foundation's own IRS 990-PF returns, as filed, in USD
Who funds the same organisations
Counted over its 40 largest grantees, leaving out fiscal sponsors and donor-advised funds, which share an address rather than a cause. A fact, not a partnership.
Its board and officers
From its latest return.
Form 990PF Part VIII, tax year 2023, filing 202431099349100308
Name and title as its own return lists them. No pay, no address. A photograph appears only where the person's own organisation or a free licence publishes one, credited beside it; otherwise none. Anyone can ask to be removed: hello@philanova.ai.
Its money
What it gave, held and paid, by year.
Giving by year
Its returns6 filings
| Tax year | Form | Filing | Where to read it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | IRS 990-PF | 202630939349101273 | IRS batch file |
| 2024 | IRS 990-PF | 202521209349101962 | IRS batch file |
| 2023 | IRS 990-PF | 202431099349100308 | IRS batch file |
| 2022 | IRS 990-PF | 202341149349100634 | IRS batch file |
| 2021 | IRS 990-PF | 202210979349101406 | IRS batch file |
| 2020 | IRS 990-PF | 202121099349100007 | IRS batch file |
An IRS batch file holds many returns; the filing number finds this one inside it.
The record as filedEvery table this page has always shown, in full.open
Cooper Foundation made 392 grants across 2020–2025, totalling $4.9m as filed.
- Grants
- 392
- Total, as filed
- $4.9m
- Years
- 2020–2025
- Filed in
- USD
Who it funds
| Organisation | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN EN THOMPSON FORUM ON WORLD ISSUES | 10 | $399.7k |
| RABBLE MILL | 6 | $210.0k |
| CLYDE MALONE COMMUNITY CENTER | 7 | $175.1k |
| UNITED WAY OF LINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY | 7 | $160.9k |
| ASIAN COMMUNITY & CULTURAL CENTER | 3 | $75.0k |
| LUX CENTER FOR THE ARTS | 4 | $75.0k |
| CENTER FOR LEGAL IMMIGRATION ASSISTANCE | 4 | $65.0k |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA - LINCOLN LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS | 4 | $65.0k |
| BRAVEBE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | 3 | $62.5k |
| YWCA LINCOLN | 4 | $60.0k |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE HEARTLAND INC | 4 | $57.5k |
| SOLIDAGO CONSERVANCY | 3 | $57.5k |
| CIVIC NEBRASKA | 4 | $52.5k |
| MID-AMERICA ARTS ALLIANCE | 5 | $52.5k |
| NEBRASKA CULTURAL ENDOWMENT | 6 | $51.5k |
By year
| Year | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 80 | $643.0k |
| 2021 | 62 | $955.4k |
| 2022 | 77 | $937.7k |
| 2023 | 54 | $658.5k |
| 2024 | 54 | $698.2k |
| 2025 | 65 | $1.0m |
Where this came from
Identifier US-EIN-470401230. Register: Internal Revenue Service (US). Machine-readable: JSON.
What this page does not know
- Wrong if: a figure recovered from a subtotal is read as the sum of the recovered rows. A subtotal divides onto a whole penny whatever its parts did, so rows the per-row rule refuses are inside these figures.
- What they say they exist to do
- What each grant was for
- What they fund, by theme
- Balance sheet and financials
- Who runs it
- Whether they accept proposals
- Their own record on the register
- No website on file
- Leadership not yet identified