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Cook Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$951k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$1.1MHuman Services$934kYouth Development$531kPublic Benefit$500kCrime & Legal$490kInternational$424kReligion$333kAnimals$320kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $166k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $535k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$37,185
Median grant
2
States reached
$494k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION$250,000
HONOR FLIGHT OF THE OZARKS$160,000
SHERIFF ARNOTS DISTINGUISHED POSSEE$114,800
THE BARNABAS FOUNDATION$100,000
KANAKUK MINISTRIES$60,000
SPRINGFIELD WORKSHOP FOUNDATION INC$50,000
OZARKS FOOD HARVEST$50,000
HARMONY HOUSE$37,185
SMITTY'S MIDWEST BOXING GYM$30,000
THE GATHERING TREEEDEN VILLAGE$24,000
THE GOOD SAMARITAN BOYS RANCH$20,000
THE ASKINOSIE FOUNDATION$15,000
GYNCA$10,000
SENIOR AGE AREA AGENCY$10,000
SPRINGFIELD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$10,000
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 (FY19–25, $272k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%LIGHTHOUSE CHILD & FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $10k → 15%LOST AND FOUND GRIEF CENTER: $50k → 15%HARMONY HOUSE: $37k → 15%GATHERING TREE: $35k → 15%CARE TO LEARN: $25k → 15%Itus Virtus Motorcycle Club MO Heat Inc: $25k → 15%HONOR FLIGHT OF THE OZARKS: $20k → 15%LOST & FOUND GRIEF CENTER: $20k → 15%HONOR FLIGHT OF THE OZARKS: $10k → 15%THE GOOD SAMARITAN BOYS RANCH: $20k → 15%THE GOOD SAMARITAN BOYS RANCH FOUNDATION: $20k → 15%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.
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.3M · 22 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
31

Total granted

$4.3M
$972k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
0%

Still filing today

77%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationReligionHealthAnimalsArts & CultureOther
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

  • Kanakuk Ministries
    4× · 2019–2025 · $424k · revenue +19%
  • HF
    HONOR FLIGHT OF THE OZARKS
    4× · 2021–2025 · $350k · revenue +158% · 27% of their budget
  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI
    4× · 2019–2022 · $310k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • OT
    OZARKS TEEN CHALLENGE
    one grant, 2020 · $159k · revenue -47%
  • CO
    COUNCIL OF CHURCHES OF THE OZARKS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $73k
  • WF
    WREATHS FOR FALLEN HEROES
    one grant, 2022 · $72k
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
Child Safe of Central Missouri Inc

Child safe of central missouri's mission is to respond to and prevent child abuse by providing advocacy, support, and resources to children who are alleged victims of abuse and other traumatic crimes, and to their non-offending family…

Crime & Legal
2
Ozark Food Pantry

Our Mission is to reach out to those in need in our area by providing healthy and nuritious food and other necessities to families and individuals who cannot afford them. In addition, the Pantry refers families to other agencies which can…

Food & Nutrition
3
Blake Wagner Foundation
Human Services
4
Family Advocacy and Community Training Inc

Enhance the opportunities and quality of life for children and youth with disabilities. the organization achieves this objective through parent training, emotional support, direct advocacy, community education, self-advocacy and navigation…

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5
Kids Win Missouri

Kids Win Missouri furthers child well-being by advancing the health, education, safety and development of Missouri children and their families, especially those who are at-risk because of poverty, abuse, neglect, racial inequities or other…

Human Services
6
Nova Center of the Ozarks Inc

Nova center of the ozarks, inc strives to make possible the potential for positive change in the quality of life for every individual with a developmental disability, regardless of the nature of that disability.

Human Services
7
Recovery Center of the Ozarks

To provide substance abuse counceling and services

Health
8
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Ozarks

To provide children facing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported one-to-one relationships that change their lives for the better, forever. most of the children served by bbbso are from single-parent, low-income…

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9
Casa of Mideast Missouri

Present the interests of abused and negleced children in court proceedings in franklin county, mo, gasconade county, mo, and osage county, mo by providing advocacy with volunteers.

Human Services
10
Ozarks New Hope Inc

Provide integrated, patient-centered health services designed to meet the needs of all patients, regardless of ability to pay; help the healthcare industry better serve patients & community by promoting public health; supporting…

Health
11
Ozarks Food Harvest Foundation

Ozarks food harvest foundation serves as a supporting organization to ozarks food harvest, inc.

Food & Nutrition
12
Missouri Gun Rights

We have advocated for the second amendment rights of all law abiding citizens of missouri.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Violence Center; the most unlike its peers is Itus Virtus Motorcycle Club Mo Heat Inc. 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

40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 60 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/40
Grantees still filing
25/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · OtherTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONJonathan Project Inc: $500,000 · OtherJonathan Project IncCAMP BARNABAS: $342,218 · OtherCAMP BARNABASCHRISTIAN COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT: $169,938 · OtherOZARKS TEEN CHALLENGE: $159,000 · Other+35 more: $1,040,433 · Other+35 moreHONOR FLIGHT OF THE OZARKS: $350,000 · Human ServicesHONOR FLIGHT O…LOST & FOUND: $190,000 · Human ServicesLOST & FOUNDFAMILY VIOLENCE CENTER: $37,185 · Human ServicesTHE GATHERING TREE: $35,000 · Human ServicesCare to Learn: $25,000 · Human ServicesITUS VIRTUS MOTORCYCLE CLUB MO HEAT INC: $25,000 · Human Services+3 more: $50,000 · Human Services+3 moreKanakuk Ministries: $423,500 · ReligionKanakuk Min…BARNABAS FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 · ReligionBARNABAS FO…THE WARRIOR'S JOURNEY: $25,000 · ReligionSHERIFF ARNOTT'S DISTINGUISHED POSSE INC: $174,800 · EducationMISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $116,415 · EducationPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Education+1 more: $2,500 · EducationHUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI: $310,000 · Animals+1 more: $10,000 · AnimalsOZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC: $150,000 · Food & NutritionCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI: $103,000 · Civil Rights
Other$3,211,589Human Services$712,185Religion$573,500Education$368,715Animals$320,000Food & Nutrition$150,000Civil Rights$103,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJonathan Project Inc: $500,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetKanakuk Ministries: $423,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetHONOR FLIGHT OF THE OZARKS: $350,000 over 4y, 27% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI: $310,000 over 4y, 8.9% of budgetLOST & FOUND: $190,000 over 4y, 7.7% of budgetSHERIFF ARNOTT'S DISTINGUISHED POSSE INC: $174,800 over 2y, 55% of budgetOZARKS TEEN CHALLENGE: $159,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetOZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBARNABAS FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $116,415 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI: $103,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetSpringfield Workshop Foundation Inc: $77,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOASIS REFUGE INC: $65,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetSMITTYS MIDWEST BOXING GYM & YOUTH CENTER INC: $60,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetK9S FOR CAMO INC: $50,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetCHAMPION ATHLETES OF THE OZARKS: $50,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetLIZZYS WALK OF FAITH: $45,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetWILSONS CREEK NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD FOUNDATION: $41,000 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetTHE GATHERING TREE: $35,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP OF THE OZARKS INC: $30,650 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCare to Learn: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDISCOVERY CENTER OF SPRINGFIELD INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetITUS VIRTUS MOTORCYCLE CLUB MO HEAT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetTHE WARRIOR'S JOURNEY: $25,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetThe Good Samaritan Boys Ranch Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetSpringfield Symphony Association: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBurrell Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetGood Samaritan Boys Ranch: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SPRINGFIELD INC: $15,054 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARC OF THE OZARKS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRescue One: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNEWBORNS IN NEED INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE CHILD & FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWOOD PARENT ASSOCIATION INC: $2,500 over 2y, 1.7% 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.

Community Foundation …The Charlie & Mary Be…Stanley & Elaine Ball…Arvest FoundationThe Turner Family Fou…Larry P O'Reilly and …Musgrave FoundationCommerce Bancshares F…Bee Payne-Stewart Fou…Ozarks Health Advocac…Robert M - Bobby - Al…Mercy Health Springfi…
Community Foundation of the Ozarks IncMO54.5× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    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 60 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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