· Private foundation
Cook Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k11 grants · $277k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $772k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHIAWASSEE DISTRICT LIBRARY | $705,000 |
| VARIOUS OTHERS | $310,026 |
| VARIOUS OTHERS | $281,991 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $217,681 |
| Individual grant recipient | $183,986 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SHIA & GENES | $101,000 |
| SHIAWASSEE ECONOMIC DEV PARTNERS | $99,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $90,146 |
| SAFECENTER (RAVE) | $80,000 |
| LEBOWSKY CENTER | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| VOICES FOR CHILDERN ADVOCACY CENTER | $40,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GENESSE COUNTY | $35,000 |
| CORUNNA PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $35,000 |
| SHIAWASSEE ARTS CENTER | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $277k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $962k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUniversity of Michigan9× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +202% · 93% of their budget
- NNNONPROFIT NETWORK6× · 2017–2022 · $203k · revenue +86%
- MHMEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $120k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $70k
- OCOWOSSO COMMUNITY IMPACT AND INNOVATone grant, 2017 · $26k
- GLGREATER LAINGSBURG RECYCLERS CORPORATIONone grant, 2021 · $17k
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.
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
To provide resources and networking to all members, future members and their customers in order to enhance quality of service.
Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.
Be and create stewards for the water environment of michigan. provide high quality education for michigan's water professionals. educate and inform policy makers and the general public. promote scientifically sound environmental practices…
Promote, represent & advocate for the cooperative way of doing business
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.
Improving access to and the effectiveness of services through facilitation and coordination of community services and provision of information and referral services.
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
The door county land trust is a local, non-governmental non-profit organization whose mission is to preserve door county's exceptional lands and waters forever.
None
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 34 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 University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NONPROFIT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GENESEE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds RESPITE VOLUNTEERS OF SHIAWASSEE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SHIAWASSEE RIVER ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
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: Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
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