· 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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $280k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND | $50,000 |
| JESSE'S HOUSE INC | $50,000 |
| CRADLES TO CRAYONS BOSTON | $35,000 |
| JEREMIAH PROGRAM | $30,000 |
| COLUMBIA BUSINESS SCHOOL CLUB OF NY INC | $30,000 |
| CAREMESSAGE | $20,000 |
| TASIS FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| GREATER CHIACAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $20,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS | $20,000 |
| THE GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC | $20,000 |
| CATHERINE COOK SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| CHICAGO ABORTION FUND | $15,000 |
| CRADLES TO CRAYONS CHICAGO | $10,000 |
| CHICAGO SCHOLARS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of Cook Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
To build and maintain financial support for planned parenthood north central states to advance and protect sexual and reproductive health care for all.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
To strengthen youth and families while enhancing systems and communities.
Chief executives for corporate purpose (cecp) is the only business counsel and network dedicated to driving measurable returns on purpose. we promote responsible purpose-driven business as it increases customer loyalty, builds employee…
To equip all students in grades six through twelve with the academic skills, intellectual habits and character traits to succeed in the college of their choice, strenghten their communities and change the world.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Girls preparatory school inspires each girl to lead a life of integrity and purpose by engaging her mind, cultivating her strengths, and nurturing her self-confidence and respect for others.
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
Onegoal (the organization") is a nonprofit organization incorporated on june 13, 2003 to provide underserved students with the resources, support, and network to earn a postsecondary degree.
Ppmw provides high-quality, compassionate healthcare, including reproductive care; promote sexual health; and advocate for reproductive rights and health equity for all.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cradles to Crayons Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Peche Hen Inc dba Over the Moon Diaper Bank. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds JESSES HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA BUSINESS SCHOOL CLUB OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds CAREMESSAGE ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds TASIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO ABORTION FUND ↗
- Who funds THE CATHERINE COOK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GENERATION HOPE ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SILVER LINING MENTORING INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE PECHE HEN INC dba OVER THE MOON DIAPER BANK ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC MOBILITY PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Cook Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Silver Lining Mentoring Inc — 10% of income from government
- Economic Mobility Pathways Inc — 6% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc — 3% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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