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Cook Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $86k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TC WALKER-WOODVILLE SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| CHRYSLER MUSEUM OF ART | $20,000 |
| VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS | $20,000 |
| THE FAIRFIELD FOUNDATION | $15,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| GLOUCESTER ARTS ON MAIN | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| BAY SCHOOL COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER | $1,750 |
| ARTS AT ABINGDON | $1,000 |
| SOUNDSCAPES | $500 |
| GLOUCESTER MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $450 |
| GLOUCESTER MOOSE FAMILY CENTER LODGE 886 | $250 |
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 (FY22–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +102% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- GAGloucester Arts on Main Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $467k · revenue +188% · 32% of their budget
- FFFairfield Foundation of Virginia Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $22k · revenue +87%
- VSVIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA3× · 2020–2022 · $18k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- AFAVALON FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +14%
- CCCOURTHOUSE COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA INCone grant, 2020 · $3k
- ACARTISANS CENTER OF VIRGINIA INCone grant, 2017 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Vcca's mission is to provide time and space for national and international writers, visual artists, and composers of talent and promise to bring forth their finest works, because the arts are vital, diversity is a strength, and creativity…
Our mission is to inspire young artists and ensure an everlasting love of dance. GAB provides a healthy and nourishing environment with a strong focus on classical ballet, while exploring other techniques to shape well-rounded dancers. We…
The suffolk art league is a statewide partner of the virginia musuem of fine arts, richmond and was established 1.) to function as a community oriented fine arts organization and 2) to assist the virginia museum in fulfilling its…
The organization provides a public facility that encourages exploration and education in the arts. the center's mission is to engage and enrich the community through a variety of cultural and educational experiences.
The Shenandoah Arts Council is a non-profit arts organization serving the diverse communities of Winchester, Frederick, Clarke, and other areas of the Shenandoah Valley by cultivating the visual, performing, and literary arts through…
History is not the past; it is the story we tell about the past. every person in albemarle county and the city of charlottesville has a unique and powerful story to tell. through collecting, preserving, and interpreting the history of our…
Creating spaces where contemporary art inspires connection, sparks creativity, and fosters innovation.
As one of New Englands leading visual and performing arts institutions, SVAC's mission is to promote and nurture the arts.
The theatre and the arts center offer a series of concerts and exhibitions and workshops by performers and artists. the purpose of the theatre is to promote the arts to the citizens of greater hampton roads virginia.
To provide a vibrant, contemporary cultural center through arts education, exhibitions and community outreach that will inspire creativity and enhance people's lives
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Hermitage Museum and Gardens and the most unlike its peers is Gloucester Montessori School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 33 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 Gloucester Arts on Main Inc ↗
- Who funds Fairfield Foundation of Virginia Inc ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds THE HERMITAGE MUSEUM AND GARDENS ↗
- Who funds RAPPAHANNOCK TRIBE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AVALON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLOUCESTER COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds SOUNDSCAPES INC ↗
- Who funds MATHEWS COUNTY SCHOOL OF COUNTRY ARTS ↗
- Who funds ARTISANS CENTER OF VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE COURT HOUSE PLAYERS ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GLOUCESTER MATHEWS CARE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Gloucester Montessori School ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · J Edwin Treakle Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Avalon Foundation Inc — 6% 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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