North Carolina · Private foundation
Donald & Elizabeth Cooke Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $270k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2024
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 24
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 29% of the organizations Donald & Elizabeth Cooke Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 89% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 18 | $269k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $293k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $310k | 5% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $300k | 10% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $201k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Samaritan's Purse | $180,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Wake Forest University | $160,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Campbell University | $150,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Moore County Schools | $97,000 | 4 | n/a |
| North Carolina Zoological Society Inc | $95,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Walthour - Moss Foundation | $71,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Moore Humane Society | $70,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Duke University | $60,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Pbs North Carolina | $55,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Arts Council of Moore County | $50,000 | 5 | 2% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($160k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Donald & Elizabeth Cooke Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: North Carolina Community Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Pinehurst Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Rauch Rainoff Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
How this is measured
Compare Donald & Elizabeth Cooke Foundation with peer funders
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About Donald & Elizabeth Cooke Foundation
- How much does Donald & Elizabeth Cooke Foundation give?
- Donald & Elizabeth Cooke Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $270,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 24 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Donald & Elizabeth Cooke Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (42%), Arts & Culture (15%), International (13%).
- Who are Donald & Elizabeth Cooke Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Samaritan's Purse ($180k), Wake Forest University ($160k), Campbell University ($150k).
- Does Donald & Elizabeth Cooke Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Donald & Elizabeth Cooke Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Donald & Elizabeth Cooke Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include North Carolina Community Foundation, The Cannon Foundation Inc, Foundation for the Carolinas.
- Where is Donald & Elizabeth Cooke Foundation based?
- Donald & Elizabeth Cooke Foundation is based in NC.
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