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Cooperative Development Foundation
Washington, DC · EIN 23-7044533. Reported 68 grants totalling $3,420,480 to 44 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Cooperative Development Foundation, by its IRS classification it raises and distributes funds for employment (NTEE J122).
- How spread out its giving is. 44 distinct organizations, with 18% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 38% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $8,000 and $49,900; the smallest was $5,203 and the largest $500,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
16 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $424,800 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Dakota State University Foundation | Fargo, ND | $628,794 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Langston University Foundation | Langston, OK | $523,712 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| South Dakota State University Foundation | Brookings, SD | $350,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Indian College Fund | Denver, CO | $300,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kansas State University Foundation | Manhattan, KS | $242,826 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cooperative League of the United States of America | Washington, DC | $216,100 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ica Group Incorporated | Florence, MA | $117,000 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| South Dakota State University Foundation | Brookings, SD | $105,623 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| French Broad Trading Cooperative Inc | Asheville, NC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Heartland Community College Foundation | Normal, IL | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Thurgood Marshall College Fund Inc | Washington, DC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Colorado State University Foundation | Fort Collins, CO | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Human Connections Foundation Inc | Raleigh, NC | $49,900 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| South Carolina Cooperatives Care Foundation | Cayce, SC | $49,900 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ralph K Morris Foundation | Minneapolis, MN | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Conorth | Saint Paul, MN | $37,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Federation of Southern Cooperatives Land Assistance Fund | Atlanta, GA | $36,218 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | Madison, WI | $34,861 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Urban Homesteading Assistance U-Hab | New York, NY | $29,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Columinate Community Foundation | Tucson, AZ | $26,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Seed Commons | New York, NY | $25,971 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Naugatuck Valley Project Inc | Waterbury, CT | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community and Shelter Assist Corp | Sherwood, OR | $24,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Colmenar Cooperative Consulting | Oakland, CA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Collective Remake Art Business Education Jobs News People and Rec | Los Angeles, CA | $18,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Nexus Community Partners | Minneapolis, MN | $17,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Hendersonville Community Co-Op | Hendersonville, NC | $15,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cooperative Development Institute | Maynard, MA | $11,450 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Austin Member-Owened Business Foundation | Austin, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Florida Electric Cooperatives Assn | Tallahassee, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Home Care Associates of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rutgers the State University of Nj | Woodstown, NJ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Neighboring Food Cooperative Association | Shelburne Falls, MA | $9,222 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New York Law School | New York, NY | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Keystone Development Center Inc | Harrisburg, PA | $8,200 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cooperacion Santa Ana | Santa Ana, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ecological Democracy Institute of North America | Riverdale, MD | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center | Denver, CO | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Indiana Cooperative Development Center Inc | Indianapolis, IN | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Ajani Group | Raleigh, NC | $6,700 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Nyc Nowc Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Story Collaborative Inc | Fredericksburg, VA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| United States Federation of Worker Cooperative | Oakland, CA | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Board of Regents of the Univeristy of Wisconsin System | Madison, WI | $5,203 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
13 of 44 (30%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- South Dakota State University Foundation
Expanding services for young, beginning, and small farmers on the Pine Ridge reservation - North Dakota State University Foundation
Support for the Quentin Burdick Center for Cooperatives - Kansas State University Foundation
To provide support for the CoBank Cooperative Leadership Program - National Cooperative Business Assoc
To support the council of Cooperative Economists and the Cooperative IMPACT conference - Heartland Community College
Charitable and education purposes - Thurgood Marshall College Fund
CoBank Agriculture Scholarship for historically black colleges and universities
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 29 of 44 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 17 | $866,546 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 16 | $424,800 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 14 | $1,328,671 | $16,000 |
| 2024 | 21 | $800,463 | $11,450 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
18% of its giving went to organizations in North Dakota. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in North Dakota.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Cooperative Development Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 17 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 4 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1775 I Street Nw Suite 800, Washington, DC, 20006.
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