Virginia · Private foundation
Cook Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $95k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2024
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 14
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $242k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 22% of the organizations Cook Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $750 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 12 | $95k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $53k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $130k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $180k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $124k | 63% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $127k | 30% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $95k | 55% |
| FY2017 | 9 | $14k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gloucester Arts on Main Inc | $467,390 | 8 | 32% |
| Virginia Museum of Fine Arts | $85,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Fairfield Foundation of Virginia Inc | $21,750 | 3 | 3% |
| Virginia Symphony Orchestra | $18,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Hermitage Museum and Gardens | $11,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Rappahannock Tribe Foundation | $5,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Avalon Foundation Inc | $4,862 | 1 | 0% |
| Gloucester County Chamber of Commerce | $4,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Soundscapes Inc | $4,400 | 4 | 0% |
| Mathews County School of Country Arts | $3,522 | 4 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gloucester Arts on Main Inc | $467,390 | 8 | 32% |
| Virginia Museum of Fine Arts | $85,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Fairfield Foundation of Virginia Inc | $21,750 | 3 | 3% |
| Virginia Symphony Orchestra | $18,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Hermitage Museum and Gardens | $11,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Rappahannock Tribe Foundation | $5,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Avalon Foundation Inc | $4,862 | 1 | 0% |
| Gloucester County Chamber of Commerce | $4,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Soundscapes Inc | $4,400 | 4 | 0% |
| Mathews County School of Country Arts | $3,522 | 4 | 0% |
| Courthouse Community Orchestra Inc | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Artisans Center of Virginia Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Court House Players | $1,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Gloucester Mathews Care Clinic | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Shenandoah University | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Gloucester Museum Foundation | $450 | 1 | n/a |
| Garden Club of Gloucester | $200 | 2 | n/a |
| Gloucester Montessori School | $100 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($184k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Cook Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 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: 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
How this is measured
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About Cook Foundation
- How much does Cook Foundation give?
- Cook Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $94,950 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Cook Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (85%), Education (13%), Recreation & Sports (1%).
- Who are Cook Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Gloucester Arts on Main Inc ($467k), Virginia Museum of Fine Arts ($85k), Fairfield Foundation of Virginia Inc ($22k).
- Does Cook Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cook Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Cook Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation, J Edwin Treakle Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Cook Foundation based?
- Cook Foundation is based in VA.
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