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Howard a Cook Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$146k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$31,400
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$2.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Religion$85kYouth Development$76kArts & Culture$52kEducation$51kHealth$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Plummer Youth Promise Inc$76,00020%
Peabody Essex Museum Inc$52,30020%
Brookwood School Incorporated$22,65020%
The Charles River School Inc$13,00020%
Lappin Foundation$10,00020%
Changing Futures Inc$10,000110%
Yestermorrow Inc$10,00020%
Chabad Lubavitch of the North Shore$7,5002n/a
Chabad Center of Brookline Ma$6,8002n/a
Fairwind Learning Center$5,00011%

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($61k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Howard a Cook Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPlummer Youth Promise Inc: $76,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPeabody Essex Museum Inc: $52,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBrookwood School Incorporated: $22,650 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Charles River School Inc: $13,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLappin Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetChanging Futures Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetYestermorrow Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFairwind Learning Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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 8.

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.

Raymond James Charitable Endowment FundFL10.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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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About Howard a Cook Family Foundation Inc

How much does Howard a Cook Family Foundation Inc give?
Howard a Cook Family Foundation Inc reported 14 grants totaling $145,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does Howard a Cook Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (31%), Youth Development (28%), Arts & Culture (19%).
Who are Howard a Cook Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2024 to FY2025: Plummer Youth Promise Inc ($76k), Peabody Essex Museum Inc ($52k), Brookwood School Incorporated ($23k).
Does Howard a Cook Family Foundation Inc 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 Howard a Cook Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund, National Philanthropic Trust, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
Where is Howard a Cook Family Foundation Inc based?
Howard a Cook Family Foundation Inc is based in MA.

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 15 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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