Indiana · Private foundation
Cooke Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $191k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 39%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 39% of the organizations Cooke Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $166k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $110k | 39% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $54k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $48k | 36% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $35k | 60% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $45k | 63% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $78k | 45% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $35k | 63% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Butler University | $212,203 | 5 | 0% |
| Conner Prairie Museum Inc | $130,000 | 8 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Hope International Ministries Inc | $22,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Salvation Army | $20,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Humane Society for Hamilton County | $17,500 | 4 | 0% |
| St Vincent Hospital Foundation Inc | $15,250 | 3 | 0% |
| Phi Delta Theta Foundation | $11,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Holy Spirit Catholic Church | $11,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Women's Care Center Inc | $5,250 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 25 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($115k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cooke Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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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: Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
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About Cooke Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Cooke Family Foundation Inc give?
- Cooke Family Foundation Inc reported 19 grants totaling $190,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Cooke Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (38%), Arts & Culture (24%), Recreation & Sports (19%).
- Who are Cooke Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Butler University ($212k), Conner Prairie Museum Inc ($130k), American Heart Association Inc ($35k).
- Does Cooke Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cooke Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Cooke Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lumina Foundation for Education Inc, Lilly Endowment Inc, Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Cooke Family Foundation Inc based?
- Cooke Family Foundation Inc is based in IN.
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