Missouri · Private foundation
Cook Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $951k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 47%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $37,185
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 17
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $494k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 47% of the organizations Cook Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $951k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $652k | 47% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $1.1M | 47% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $722k | 58% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $559k | 56% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $779k | 55% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $715k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jonathan Project Inc | $500,000 | 2 | 26% |
| Kanakuk Ministries | $423,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Honor Flight of the Ozarks | $350,000 | 4 | 27% |
| Humane Society of Southwest Missouri | $310,000 | 4 | 9% |
| Lost & Found | $190,000 | 4 | 8% |
| Sheriff Arnott's Distinguished Posse Inc | $174,800 | 2 | 55% |
| Ozarks Teen Challenge | $159,000 | 1 | 11% |
| Ozarks Food Harvest Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Barnabas Foundation Inc | $125,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Missouri State University Foundation | $116,415 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Cook Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 36 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · The Charlie & Mary Beth O'Reilly Family Foundation · Stanley & Elaine Ball Charitable Tr · Arvest Foundation · The Turner Family Foundation · Larry P O'Reilly and Family Foundation · Musgrave Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Bee Payne-Stewart Foundation · Ozarks Health Advocacy Foundation · Robert M - Bobby - Allison Charitable Tr · Mercy Health Springfield Communities
How this is measured
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About Cook Family Foundation
- How much does Cook Family Foundation give?
- Cook Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $950,985 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 17 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Cook Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (20%), Human Services (17%), Youth Development (10%).
- Who are Cook Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Jonathan Project Inc ($500k), Kanakuk Ministries ($424k), Honor Flight of the Ozarks ($350k).
- Does Cook Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cook Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Cook Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc, The Charlie & Mary Beth O'Reilly Family Foundation, Stanley & Elaine Ball Charitable Tr.
- Where is Cook Family Foundation based?
- Cook Family Foundation is based in MO.
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