· Private foundation
Cooke Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $66k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUTLER UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $25,000 |
| INDIANAPOLIS CHILDRENS MUSEUM | $11,000 |
| CONNER PRAIRIE MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| INDIANA GAMMA SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| ST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HOPE CHILDRENS HOME | $5,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF HAMILTON COUNTY | $5,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| HOLY SPIRIT CATHOLIC CHURCH | $2,000 |
| MARIAN UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| AGAPE | $1,000 |
| PHI DELTA THETA FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +39% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BUButler University5× · 2017–2025 · $212k · revenue +39%
- CPConner Prairie Museum Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $130k · revenue +61%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc2× · 2024–2025 · $35k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- EFENTOURAJ FOR KIDSone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -76%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +59%- YLYOUNG LIFEone 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.
As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…
The University of Indianapolis champions lifelong learning through relevant and innovative education that fosters experiential learning, diverse perspectives, service for impact, and a global mindset.
Benedictine college's mission as a catholic, benedictine, liberal arts, residential college is the education of men and women within a community of faith & scholarship.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
We educate women to lead and influence. we educate at all degree levels through valuing and integrating the liberal arts and professional education within the catholic intellectual tradition, see schedule oemphasizing scholarly inquiry and…
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.
To deliver preeminent medical care and service to our patients and communities through outstanding and innovative medical leadership and practice, while participating in and supporting excellence in education and research. We achieve this…
The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 51 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.
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- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Hope International Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Humane Society for Hamilton County ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Phi Delta Theta Foundation ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ENTOURAJ FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Marian University ↗
- Who funds KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
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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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cooke Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cooke Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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