How much did Cook Family Foundation grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 44% of Cook Family Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

youthexperienceartvirtual

2021

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2022

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2023

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2024

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k8 grants · $40k
$10k–50k8 grants · $110k
$50k–250k1 grant · $70k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.7M

Total assets

Largest grants

Children First$70,000
Boys Girls Club$20,000
Children's First$20,000
UNIDOSNOW$15,000
Safe Children Coalition$15,000
Studio Place Arts$10,000
UUCS$10,000
Girls Inc$10,000
JFCS$10,000
All Faiths Food Bank$8,000
Mote Marine Laboratory$5,000
Sarasota Performing Arts Foundation$5,000
Holden Forest Gardens$5,000
Family Oriented Community United St$5,000
Shaker Lakes Regional Nature Center$5,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.0M · 16 repeat orgs$52k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships — 15 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

Total granted

$1.0M

$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%

+26%

Still filing today

56%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

Children First
5× · 2020–2024 · $363k · revenue +53%
UNIDOSNOW
5× · 2020–2024 · $58k · revenue +2%
Mote Marine Laboratory
5× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +282%

Funded once

PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL FLORIDA INCgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +26%
UU
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH OF SARASOTA
one grant, 2020 · $10k
RC
RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGNgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $9k · revenue +41%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Sarasota Contemporary Dance Inc

Our mission is to bring cutting edge dance of the highest caliber to the community through performance, education and collaboration.

Arts & Culture

Sarasota City Foundation Inc

Philanthropy

Heart Gallery of Sarasota

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Sarasota Film Society Inc

Through numerous festivals and educational programs, coupled with fun and thought-provoking events, sarasota film society has continued its promise to provide the community with a longstanding commitment to outreach and education through…

Arts & Culture

Out-of-Door Academy of Sarasota Inc

Our mission at The Out-of-Door Academy is to nurture learners to be their best selves through impactful, purposeful, and challenging growth experiences in a supportive and unique environment. Our vision is to prepare growth-minded…

Education

Florida West Coast Public Broadcasting

Wedu is a public media resource that uses storytelling and community (see schedule o, page 40)engagement to create a more informed public.

Arts & Culture

Crearte Latino Cultural Center Corp

Crearte latino cultural center's mission, as adopted by its governing body, is to foster artistic and cultural expression by uniting the latino/hispanic community with the broader public through inclusive and accessible programming.…

Arts & Culture

The Womens Care Florida Foundation

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Child Protection Center Inc

The child protection center (cpc) operates multiple programs to aid in cpc's mission: the prevention, intervention & treatment of child abuse.

Crime & Legal

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment

The Tampa Bay History Center

Discovering, preserving, and learning from our region's past to inform our common future.

Environment

University of Florida

To assist the university of florida in funding of research & development through grants & contractual arrangements & in the commercialization of intellectual properties, which include inventions, discoveries, processes, & work products.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safe Children Coalition Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ringling College of Art and Design Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

13/13

Grantees still filing

9/13

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$486,750Education$371,600International$57,500Arts & Culture$45,000Human Services$41,200Youth Development$40,000Food & Nutrition$34,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundation of Sarasota CoFL22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc · Junior League of Sarasota Inc · Tarr Charitable Family Foundation Inc · Manatee Community Foundation Inc · The Mark & Carol Hyman Fund · United Way Suncoast Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation Cook Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Wingspan Productions.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 861837793 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Wingspan Productions, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 15% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Cook Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Cook Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Cook Family Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?