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Cook Family Foundation at a glance

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Cook Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$20k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Human Services$84kAnimals$48kArts & Culture$2k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$383k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITY SHOPPE INC$5,000
Frosted Faces Foundation$5,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC$5,000
RESQCATS INC$3,000
CARE$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%UNITY SHOPPE INC: $15k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $5k → 14%UNITY SHOPPE INC: $10k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $5k → 14%UNITY SHOPPE INC: $10k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $4k → 14%UNITY SHOPPE INC: $10k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $4k → 14%UNITY SHOPPE INC: $10k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $4k → 14%UNITY SHOPPE INC: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$115k · 4 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
4

Total granted

$115k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+17%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsHuman ServicesOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • US
    UNITY SHOPPE INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $60k · revenue +49%
  • WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $22k · revenue +50%
  • RI
    RESQCATS INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $22k · revenue +123%

Funded once

  • DA
    Dedicated Animal Welfare Group of Laguna Niguel and Mission Viejograduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +74%
  • BL
    BARKING LOT
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
  • CA
    Cat Assistance Referral & Education
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -50%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Leave No Paws Behind Inc

Conduct animal rescues, rehabilitation and rehome senior animals abandoned to the shelter's system.

Animals
2
Santa Cruz Humane Society Inc

To provide a no kill shelter for homeless pets and promote adoption to good homes.

Animals
3
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
4
The Adoptable Dog
Animals
5
Mountain View Animal Rescue

Rescue of abused or abandoned animals

Animals
6
High Sierra Animal Rescue Inc

High Sierra Animal Rescues mission is to save the lives of homeless dogs in the regions served. Our staff and volunteers are dedicated to making our communities better through successful adoptions advancing their welfare and creating human…

Animals
7
Golden State Humane Society

Affordable veterinary care, low-cost spay and neuter services, and pet parent education for the dogs and cats of Southern California.

Animals
8
Shelters and Shelves Rescue Inc

foster based dog rescue working with shelters to save dogs

Animals
9
4 Paws 4 Rescue

4 Paws 4 Rescue is an all foster home rescue. We are dedicated to saving animals that are in need, whether they be from high kill shelters, strays, abandoned animals, or owner surrenders. We strive to find suitable permanent homes for our…

Animals
10
Foothill Dog Rescue of the Sierras

Foothill Dog Rescue is a 100% all volunteer organization dedicated to re-homing dogs from over crowded animal shelters, owner surrenders and underserved communities. We also sponsor vaccine and microchip clinics for our County and have…

Animals
11
West Coast Dog & Cat Rescue

Cat rescue and adoption network is an all-volunteer cat rescue organization whose primary purpose is to find permanent adoptive homes for the communities unwanted, neglected or abused cats with a focus on those with special needs.

Animals
12
Paws and Claws Animal Welfare Society Inc

Animal Rescue

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Frosted Faces Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is La Jolla Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITY SHOPPE INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesUNITY SHOPPE INCWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $22,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INCRESQCATS INC: $22,000 · AnimalsRESQCATS INCSANTA YNEZ VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY: $11,000 · AnimalsSANTA YNEZ VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETYDedicated Animal Welfare Group of Laguna Niguel and Mission Viejo: $5,000 · AnimalsDedicated Animal Welfare Group of Laguna…FROSTED FACES FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · AnimalsFROSTED FACES FOUNDATION INCBARKING LOT: $3,000 · AnimalsBARKING LOTCat Assistance Referral & Education (CARE): $2,000 · AnimalsCARE: $2,000 · OtherLa Jolla Historical Society: $2,000 · Other
Human Services$82,000Animals$48,000Other$4,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITY SHOPPE INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $22,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRESQCATS INC: $22,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetSANTA YNEZ VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY: $11,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDedicated Animal Welfare Group of Laguna Niguel and Mission Viejo: $5,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetFROSTED FACES FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCat Assistance Referral & Education (CARE): $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLa Jolla Historical Society: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Network for GoodDC8.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Cook Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cook Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    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 10 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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