How much does Cook Family Foundation Inc give?

Cook Family Foundation Inc reported 1 grants totaling $571,469 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 28 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Cook Family Foundation Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (71%), Animals (8%), Health (4%).

Who are Cook Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: NAMI National ($19k), Farm Sanctuary Inc ($15k), Westfield Homeless Cat Project ($10k).

Does Cook Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Cook Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Cook Family Foundation Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ge Aerospace Foundation, The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund, Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation.

Where is Cook Family Foundation Inc based?

Cook Family Foundation Inc is based in NC.

Cook Family Foundation Inc

Cook Family Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Cook Family Foundation Inc

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.

$571k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$571k

Largest

01What it funds

0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$571kAnimals$65kHealth$31kHuman Services$23kEnvironment$21kInternational$18kCrime & Legal$11kFood & Nutrition$10kOther$0

02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$571,469

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIF	$571,469

02The need

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 (FY17–23, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

18%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$145k · 33 repeat orgs$654k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$145k

$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%

+31%

Still filing today

58%

62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $571k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsHealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesInternationalCivil RightsOther

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

NN
NAMI National
6× · 2018–2023 · $19k · revenue +461%
FS
FARM SANCTUARY INC
7× · 2017–2023 · $15k · revenue +25%
WH
WESTFIELD HOMELESS CAT PROJECT
3× · 2021–2023 · $10k · revenue +6%

Funded once

UF
UNITED FOR PUERTO RICO
one grant, 2017 · $8k
KC
KULA COMMUNITY WATERSHED ALLIANCE
one grant, 2023 · $4k
AW
ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE
one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +16%

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.

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services

World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals

The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…

Animals

Wildaid Inc

Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.

Animals

Humane World for Animals International

HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…

Animals

Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals

Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals

Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment

American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals

The Humane League

We exist to end the abuse of animals raised for food. this mission is executed by persuading companies and institutions to adopt animal welfare policies through negotiation and pressure campaigns, and then holding them accountable to their…

Animals

Humane World Action Fund

To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Farm Sanctuary Inc; the most unlike its peers is Westfield Homeless Cat Project. 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

58 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. 58 of the 97 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

58/58

Grantees still filing

43/58

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$662,569Animals$57,666Health$28,012International$18,650Human Services$14,175Environment$13,500Civil Rights$5,100

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.

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.

Ge Aerospace FoundationCT15.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · Greater Good Charities · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Petsmart Charities Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Duke Energy Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cook Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely 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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