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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Children First | $70,000 |
| Boys Girls Club | $20,000 |
| Children's First | $20,000 |
| Safe Children Coalition | $15,000 |
| UNIDOSNOW | $15,000 |
| UUCS | $10,000 |
| Girls Inc | $10,000 |
| Studio Place Arts | $10,000 |
| JFCS | $10,000 |
| All Faiths Food Bank | $8,000 |
| Family Oriented Community United St | $5,000 |
| Wingspan Productions | $5,000 |
| Mote Marine Laboratory | $5,000 |
| Sarasota Performing Arts Foundation | $5,000 |
| Shaker Lakes Regional Nature Center | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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 Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $533k · revenue +3%
MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +129%- SPSTUDIO PLACE ARTS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $43k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- UUUNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH OF SARASOTA INCone grant, 2020 · $10k
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL FLORIDA INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +33%- RCRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INCone grant, 2020 · $9k · revenue +21%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The florida center supports the healthy development of young children, specializing in those with delays, disabilities or mental health challenges. our mission- "to help build and foster strong families and expand the potential of young…
The mission of the child protection center, inc. is the prevention, intervention and treatment of child abuse. we envision a community where children are safe from abuse and free to thrive. to successfully address the issue of child abuse,…
The circus arts conservatory's mission is to engage and educate students using unique and innovative learning programs; to measuraly improve the quality of life for individuals in care communities; and to advance the extraordinary legacy…
For 80 years, suncoast center, inc. has held true to its mission of "strengthening, protecting, and restoring lives for a healthy community" by providing a comprehensive range of evidence-based services that address emotional wellness,…
Dreamers academy develops bilingual, biliterate, and cross-cultural leaders of character within a caring environment that encourages family engagement and celebrates america.
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…
Improve the ocean's future, one person at a time, in order to live in a world where all people value, understand, and care for the ocean.
The mission at the Dunedin Fine Art Center is to enrich lives through educational experiences in the visual arts. The vision is to make the Dunedin Fine Art Center a leading visual art center providing unparalleled educational, cultural &…
To strenghten and instill pride in family and community through the development of programs and institutions that cultivate self-development, teach self-disipline, build confidence and promote cutural awareness.
The mission of the foundation is to restore and protect america's everglades through its three programmatic pillars: science, advocacy and education. (continued on schedule o)
Since 1981, children's advocacy center of southwest florida, inc. (cac) has advocated for a healthy, safe community for children through a multidisciplinary team approach to child abuse and neglect. our mission is to create a safe and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Incorporated of Sarasota County and the most unlike its peers is Studio Place Arts Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Children First Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIDOSNOW INC ↗
- Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds STUDIO PLACE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE CHILDREN COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BAKER SENIOR CENTER NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WINGSPAN PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds SHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SARASOTA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ↗
- Who funds EMBRACING OUR DIFFERENCES INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trust · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc · United Way Suncoast Inc · The Mark & Carol Hyman Fund · Harry Sudakoff Foundation Inc · Junior League of Sarasota Inc · Tarr Charitable Family Foundation Inc · William G and Marie Selby Foundation Inc · Manatee Community Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 organization 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.
- Children First Inc — 100% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast Inc — 67% of income from government
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Safe Children Coalition Inc — 0% of income from government
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 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.
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