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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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRINITY FOUNDATION | $1,800 |
| THE HAVEN | $50 |
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 (FY17–17, $20) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 +69% since the first grant, against +51% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 1 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, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
The Newport Tree Conservancy3× · 2017–2019 · $1k · revenue +69%- ESEASTERN SHORE ART ASSOCIATION INC5× · 2017–2022 · $975 · revenue +32%
- FVFAIRHOPE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC5× · 2017–2022 · $325 · revenue +289%
Funded once
- I1IMPACT 100one grant, 2021 · $2k
- TNTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INCone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +11%
- THTHOMAS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $650 · revenue +28%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To guarantee all americans quality places to hunt and fish.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 56 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 The Newport Tree Conservancy ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds EASTERN SHORE ART ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRHOPE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC ↗
- Who funds Prodisee Pantry Inc ↗
- Who funds AARP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOBILE BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds THE MAXFUND INC ↗
- Who funds ROADS OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RAZORBACK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROLLINS COLLEGE ↗
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: J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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.
- Rollins College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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