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Brenton & Susan Cook Foundation Brent Cook

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$7k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
22%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$2,500
Organizations funded a year
9 to 14
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$180k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Brenton & Susan Cook Foundation Brent Cook funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthAnimalsPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterEducationReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving7$6k57%
FY20249$20k22%
FY202310$6k50%
FY202213$10k62%
FY20219$10k33%
FY202014$14k36%
FY201911$8k45%
FY201810$8k60%
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$53kPhilanthropy$15kHealth$12kInternational$11kArts & Culture$3kHousing & Shelter$1kCommunity Improvement$1kYouth Development$1kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
MI
NY
OH
PA
NJ
VA
TN
NC
OK
AL
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 26 grantees
All grantees of Brenton & Susan Cook Foundation Brent Cook by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Marco Presbyterian Church$33,1508n/a
Billy Blackwood Ministries Inc$9,00085%
Samaritan's Purse$5,00070%
Global Village Ministries Inc$4,50021%
Marine Toys for Tots Foundation$1,75050%
McLaren Greater Lansing Foundation$1,50010%
David's House Ministries$1,25030%
Habitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc$1,00010%
Generation E Institute$1,00010%
Marco Island Historical Society Inc$1,00020%
Camp Beechpoint Inc$1,00010%
Filter of Hope Inc$50010%
Pink Ribbon Riders$50010%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$40020%
One Saved International$25010%
Faith and Medicine Foundation$2501n/a
Life Matters Worldwide$25010%
American Heart Association Inc$25010%
Corewell Health Foundation West Michigan$2501n/a
Gideons International$2001n/a
Humane Society of South Central Mi$20010%
Barry County Humane Society$10010%
Haven Inc$10010%
South Dayton Presbyterian Church$1001n/a
Atlantic Baptist Church$1001n/a
20 Liters$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($26k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Brenton & Susan Cook Foundation Brent Cook supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBilly Blackwood Ministries Inc: $9,000 over 8y, 5.5% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $5,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGlobal Village Ministries Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMarine Toys for Tots Foundation: $1,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMcLaren Greater Lansing Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDavid's House Ministries: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGeneration E Institute: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMarco Island Historical Society Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCamp Beechpoint Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFilter of Hope Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPink Ribbon Riders: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOne Saved International: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLife Matters Worldwide: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Society of South Central Mi: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBarry County Humane Society: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHaven Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget20 Liters: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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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.

WK Kellogg FoundationMI17.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: WK Kellogg Foundation · Miller Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to Brenton & Susan Cook Foundation Brent Cook through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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About Brenton & Susan Cook Foundation Brent Cook

How much does Brenton & Susan Cook Foundation Brent Cook give?
Brenton & Susan Cook Foundation Brent Cook reported 8 grants totaling $6,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Brenton & Susan Cook Foundation Brent Cook fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (53%), Philanthropy (15%), Health (12%).
Who are Brenton & Susan Cook Foundation Brent Cook's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Marco Presbyterian Church ($33k), Billy Blackwood Ministries Inc ($9k), Samaritan's Purse ($5k).
Does Brenton & Susan Cook Foundation Brent Cook fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Brenton & Susan Cook Foundation Brent Cook accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Brenton & Susan Cook Foundation Brent Cook?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include WK Kellogg Foundation, Miller Foundation, Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund.
Where is Brenton & Susan Cook Foundation Brent Cook based?
Brenton & Susan Cook Foundation Brent Cook is based in FL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 53 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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