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Cook Native American Ministries Foundation

In response to the christian gospel, COOK NATIVE AMERICAN MINISTRIES FOUNDATION equips and empowers native americans to better serve their churches and communities. This mission is achieved through a granting program and a variety of educational projects.

$105k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$81,469
Organizations funded a year
2 to 5
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$15M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Cook Native American Ministries Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesHealthReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving4$105k50%
FY20235$72k100%
FY20225$46k80%
FY20212$20k100%
FY20205$47kn/a
90% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$50kCommunity Improvement$27kYouth Development$24kEducation$23kHealth$20kFood & Nutrition$20kHuman Services$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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MT
SD
OH
NJ
UT
AZ
NM
NC
LA
AL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St John's United Methodist Church$20,0002n/a
Native American Urban Mission$20,0002n/a
Seneca Community Chaplain Corp$10,000110%
Peninsula-Delaware Conference the United Methodist Church$10,0001n/a
Native Strength Revolution Inc$10,000112%
Hipeexnu Kii U Nuun Wisiix$10,00014%
Healing Circle Drop in Center$10,000112%
Grand Canyon Synod Elca$10,0001n/a
Keres Children's Learning Center$10,00010%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America$10,0001n/a
Show all 17 grantees
All grantees of Cook Native American Ministries Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St John's United Methodist Church$20,0002n/a
Native American Urban Mission$20,0002n/a
Seneca Community Chaplain Corp$10,000110%
Peninsula-Delaware Conference the United Methodist Church$10,0001n/a
Native Strength Revolution Inc$10,000112%
Hipeexnu Kii U Nuun Wisiix$10,00014%
Healing Circle Drop in Center$10,000112%
Grand Canyon Synod Elca$10,0001n/a
Keres Children's Learning Center$10,00010%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America$10,0001n/a
River of Life Ministries Inc$10,0001n/a
Three Precious Miracles Inc$9,6501n/a
American Indian Services$7,50010%
United National Indian Tribal Youth Inc$7,50010%
Lowlander Center$6,80014%
Friends of the Children - He Sapa$6,50011%
Pawss Inc$5,82015%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($116k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cook Native American Ministries Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSeneca Community Chaplain Corp: $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetNative Strength Revolution Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetHipeexnu Kii U Nuun Wisiix: $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetHealing Circle Drop in Center: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetKeres Children's Learning Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Indian Services: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUnited National Indian Tribal Youth Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLowlander Center: $6,800 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetFriends of the Children - He Sapa: $6,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPawss Inc: $5,820 over 1y, 5.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

Common Counsel FoundationCA13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Common Counsel Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Cook Native American Ministries Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Cook Native American Ministries Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Cook Native American Ministries Foundation

How much does Cook Native American Ministries Foundation give?
Cook Native American Ministries Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $105,469 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 5 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Cook Native American Ministries Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (17%), Community Improvement (9%), Youth Development (8%).
Who are Cook Native American Ministries Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: St John's United Methodist Church ($20k), Native American Urban Mission ($20k), Seneca Community Chaplain Corp ($10k).
Does Cook Native American Ministries Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Cook Native American Ministries Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Common Counsel Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Cook Native American Ministries Foundation based?
Cook Native American Ministries Foundation is based in AZ.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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