· Private foundation
Bill & Marian Cook Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Goldwater Institute | $150,000 |
| Greater Missoula Family | $75,000 |
| Drexel University | $75,000 |
| St Patrick Hospital Foundation | $40,000 |
| The V Foundation | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Baylor College | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $250k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of Bill & Marian Cook Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.
33 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BGBARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH7× · 2017–2024 · $960k · revenue +97%
- MSMontana State University Foundation Inc5× · 2017–2021 · $550k · revenue +315%
- ECEYE CORPS INC6× · 2018–2023 · $417k · revenue +100% · 78% of their budget
Funded once
- NANO AZ UNIV FDNone grant, 2017 · $230k
- TATHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $205k · revenue +57%
- GFGoldwater Foundationone grant, 2023 · $150k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Roseman university of health sciences advances the health and wellness of the communities we serve by educating current and future generations of health professionals, conducting research and providing patient care. we actively pursue…
Loma linda university, a seventh-day adventist christian health sciences institution, seeks to further the healing and teaching ministry of jesus christ "to make man whole" by: - educating ethical and proficient christian health…
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
How this is measured
31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 67 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds Montana State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds EYE CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds ROC SOLID FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LymeLight Foundation ↗
- Who funds ST PATRICK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATHEARTS ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds FOCUS ON LYME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRODUCERS PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HOLISTIC MANANGEMENT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds YOUTH HOMES ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STORMWATER QUALITY ASSOCIATIO ↗
- Who funds GREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds Range Conservation Foundation ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH FOUNDAT ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Town Pump Charitable Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Arizona Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bill & Marian Cook Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bill & Marian Cook Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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