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Cooper-Standard Foundation Inc

Northville, MI · EIN 46-2610373. Reported 98 grants totalling $701,429 to 64 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,000median grant
$701,429granted, 2021-2024
64organizations funded
25%of grantees funded again the next year
$20,747assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Cooper-Standard Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $1,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $1,000; the smallest was $130 and the largest $479,554. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
5 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
81 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
8 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
1 grant
$25,000 - $50,000
1 grant
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant
$100,000 and Up
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
See Attachment 1Va, MI$479,554112021
Henry Ford Health SystemDetroit, MI$50,000112023
Gilda's ClubRoyal Oak, MI$25,000112024
University of MichiganAnn Arbor, MI$14,0001032024
American National Red CrossWashington, DC$10,000112024
Grand Valley State UniversityAllendale, MI$9,000432024
Motor City Veterans Hockey AssociationBrighton, MI$8,188112022
Junior AchievementDetroit, MI$8,000112024
Michigan State UniversityEast Lansing, MI$8,000722024
Bowling Green State UniversityBowling Green, OH$6,000632024
Central Michigan UniversityMount Pleasant, MI$6,000332024
Chimera Robotics BoostersLapeer, MI$5,000112022
Deutsches Rotes Kreuz Ev (german Red Cross)Berlin, Brandenburg$5,000112023
Hartland RoboticsHowell, MI$5,000112022
Stowarzyszenie Sos Wioski Dzieciece W PolsceWarszawa, Masovian$5,000112022
Oakland Community CollegeAuburn Hills, MI$4,000322024
The Ohio State UniversityColumbus, OH$4,000422024
Christian Women in ActionOscoda, MI$2,079112022
Colorado State UniversityFort Collins, CO$2,000222024
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridge, MA$2,000222024
Oakland UniversityRochester, MI$2,000222024
University of Michigan DearbornDearborn, MI$2,000222023
80SPARTY4APURPOSEChesterfield Twp, MI$1,500112022
Salvation ArmyNew Philadelphia, OH$1,370112022
Baldwin Wallace UniversityBerea, OH$1,000112024
Davenport UniversityGrand Rapids, MI$1,000112024
Eastern Michigan UniversityYpsilanti, MI$1,000112022
Ferris State UniveristyBig Rapids, MI$1,000112022
Furman UniversityGreenville, SC$1,000112022
Greenville Technical CollegeGreenville, SC$1,000112022
Harvard CollegeCambridge, MA$1,000112022
Harvard University Students AccountsCambridge, MA$1,000112023
Hope CollegeHolland, MI$1,000112023
Indiana Institute of TechnologyFort Wayne, IN$1,000112024
Indiana University BloomingtonBloomington, IN$1,000112022
John Carroll UniversityUniversity Heights, OH$1,000112022
Kent State University at TuscarawasNew Philadelphia, OH$1,000112024
Laredo CollegeLaredo, TX$1,000112024
Macomb Community CollegeWarren, MI$1,000112023
Maysville Community & TechnicalMount Sterling, KY$1,000112024
Maysville Community and Technical CollegeMaysville, KY$1,000112022
Northern Michigan UniversityMarquette, MI$1,000112023
Ohio UniversityAthens, OH$1,000112023
Rochester UniversityRochester Hills, MI$1,000112022
Saginaw Valley State UniversityKochville Township, MI$1,000112024
SchoolcraftLivonia, MI$1,000112022
Stark State CollegeN Canton, OH$1,000112022
Texas A&m International UniversityCollege Station, TX$1,000112023
University of AkronAkron, OH$1,000112022
University of Detroit MercyDetroit, MI$1,000112024
University of FindlayFindlay, OH$1,000112024
University of Illinois at ChicagoChicago, IL$1,000112022
University of KentuckyOwingsville, KY$1,000112023
University of Michigan Ann ArborAnn Arbor, MI$1,000112023
University of TennesseeKnoxville, TN$1,000112024
University of ToledoToledo, OH$1,000112024
Vanderbilt UniversityNashville, TN$1,000112022
Walters State Community CollegeMorristown, TN$1,000112024
Western Michigan UniversityKalamazoo, MI$1,000112024
United Way MiddlesexLondon, Ontario$853112022
Stowarzyszenie Help DzierzoniowDzierzoniow, Dolnoslaskie$330112022
Fundacja Dzieciom Zdazyc Z PomocaWarszawa, Masovian$273112022
Freerunhelps ZsBrno Veveri, Moravia$152112022
Fundacion Teleton Mexico AcGomez Palacio, Durango$130112022

11 of 64 (17%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 25%, across 2 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 39 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
35 grants
Health Care
1 grant
Human Services
1 grant
Recreation & Sports
1 grant
Science & Technology
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20211$479,554$479,554
202251$68,875$1,000
202320$73,000$1,000
202426$80,000$1,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 91% of this one's giving went to organizations in Michigan. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Michigan
$641K
Ohio
$19K
District of Columbia
$10K
Masovian
$5K
Brandenburg
$5K
Massachusetts
$4K
Kentucky
$3K
Tennessee
$3K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal 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.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Michigan.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Cooper-Standard Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 40300 Traditions Drive, Northville, MI, 48168. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 46-2610373 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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