· Private foundation
Cook Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $86k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRYSLER MUSEUM OF ART | $20,000 |
| TC WALKER-WOODVILLE SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +102% since the first grant, against +39% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cook Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cook Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Avalon Foundation Inc: 6% of income from government
How this is measured
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