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Cook Family Foundation

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.

$181k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$93kArts & Culture$72kHealth$39kCivil Rights$37kPublic Safety & Disaster$17kHuman Services$16kHousing & Shelter$15kInternational$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $66k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $115k
$5,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
World Central Kitchen$15,000
Gender Justice$10,000
ACLU Foundation$10,000
Wayne Art Center$10,000
Upper Darby Arts and Education Fdn$10,000
Delaware County Community College E$10,000
Wallingford Community Arts Center$10,000
St Johns Hospice$10,000
Vassar College$10,000
Rose Tree Early Learning Center$10,000
The Trevor Project$10,000
NAMI - Montgomery County$5,000
Nationalities Service Center$5,000
Media Food Bank$5,000
NPR$5,000
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 (FY22–25, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 28% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Prepared to Thrive: $3k → 6%Prepared to Thrive: $3k → 6%The Simple Way: $5k → 22%Nationalities Service Center: $5k → 22%Rose Tree Early Learning Center: $10k → 10%Rose Tree Early Learning Center: $6k → 10%Rose Tree Early Learning Center: $2k → 10%Rose Tree Early Learning Center: $2k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
MN
NY
PA
CA
VA
MD
DC
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$237k · 21 repeat orgs$76k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
14

Total granted

$237k
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+7%

Still filing today

81%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesInternationalHealthArts & CultureCivil RightsEducationOther
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

  • UD
    UPPER DARBY ARTS AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +832%
  • VC
    VASSAR COLLEGE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $27k · revenue +43%
  • AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $15k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • DC
    DELAWARE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2024 · $6k
  • THE SIMPLE WAY
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +7%
  • WR
    Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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
The Public Interest Law Center

The Public Interest Law Center uses high-impact legal strategies to advance the civil, social, and economic rights of communities in the Philadelphia region facing discrimination, inequality, and poverty. We use litigation, community…

Crime & Legal
2
Pennsylvania Hias Indigent Immigrant Legal Services

Provides free immigration legal services to immigrants, refugees, foreign-born individuals and their family members who reside in pennsylvania. individuals receiving the services are those who are unable to afford the services of a private…

Human Services
3
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
Aclu Foundation of Massachusetts Inc

Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.

Civil Rights
6
Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge

Witnessing to god's love for all people, we stand with and advocate for migrants and refugees, transforming communities through ministries of service and justice.

—
7
Women Donors Network

Women donors network advances a just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of philanthropy, women's leadership, and collective and individual action.

Philanthropy
8
Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services

To deliver legal and social services to people and families who want to put down roots in the u.s. and cultivate welcoming communities that uphold our collective freedoms.

Civil Rights
9
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

—
10
Center for International Policy Inc

The center for international policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable u.s. approach to foreign policy. through…

International
11
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
12
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gender Justice; the most unlike its peers is Saint John's Hospice. 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

30 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. 30 of the 45 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
14/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VASSAR COLLEGE: $27,000 · OtherVASSAR COLLEGESaint John's Hospice: $15,000 · OtherSaint John's HospiceWallingford Community Arts Center: $13,000 · OtherWallingford Community Arts CenterDelaware County Community College E: $10,000 · OtherDelaware County Community College EMedia Food Bank: $6,000 · OtherDELAWARE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $6,000 · OtherNPR: $5,000 · OtherGENDER JUSTICE: $12,000 · OtherGENDER JUSTICEProject Libertad: $5,000 · Other+14 more: $33,000 · Other+14 moreUPPER DARBY ARTS AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationUPPER DARBY ARTS A…Trustees of Dartmouth College: $16,500 · EducationTrustees of Dartmo…THE CURTIS FUND INC: $6,000 · EducationTHE CURTIS FUND IN…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2,000 · EducationROSE TREE EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $20,000 · Human ServicesROSE TREE EA…PREPARED TO THRIVE: $6,000 · Human ServicesPREPARED TO …NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA: $5,000 · Human ServicesNATIONALITIE…THE SIMPLE WAY: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE SIMPLE W…AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CI…TREVOR PROJECT INC: $14,000 · Civil RightsTREVOR PROJ…NATIONAL NETWORK FOR IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS: $4,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL NE…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $17,000 · InternationalWORLD CENT…HIAS INC: $8,000 · InternationalHIAS INCOPERATION SMILE INC: $4,000 · InternationalOPERATION …GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · InternationalGLOBALGIVI…ALS UNITED MID-ATLANTIC: $8,000 · HealthNAMI OF PA MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $5,000 · HealthCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 · HealthWomen's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project: $5,000 · HealthWayne Art Center: $13,000 · Arts & CultureMEDIA ARTS COUNCIL: $8,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY ARTS CENTER: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$132,000Education$54,500Human Services$36,000Civil Rights$33,000International$31,000Health$23,000Arts & Culture$22,000

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 budgetUPPER DARBY ARTS AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $27,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetROSE TREE EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $20,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $17,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $16,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSaint John's Hospice: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWayne Art Center: $13,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGENDER JUSTICE: $12,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMEDIA ARTS COUNCIL: $8,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetHIAS INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALS UNITED MID-ATLANTIC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPREPARED TO THRIVE: $6,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CURTIS FUND INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNAMI OF PA MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE SIMPLE WAY: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetWomen's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKula Project Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPHILADELPHIA BAIL FUND INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ARTS CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDING FORWARD (FORMERLY THE UNION LEAGUE LEGACY FOUNDATION): $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Philadelphia Foun…Ethel S C Smith No 5 …Connelly FoundationBroughton FoundationFoundation for Delawa…The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…Charities Aid Foundat…Raymond James Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…Paypal Charitable Giv…American Online Givin…
The Philadelphia FoundationPA18.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · Ethel S C Smith No 5 Charitable Tw · Connelly Foundation · Broughton Foundation · Foundation for Delaware County · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to Cook Family Foundation?

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

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 45 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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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home