· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $117k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM | $31,400 |
| CHABAD-LUBAVITCH OF ST MAARTEN | $30,000 |
| PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE | $20,000 |
| CONGREGATION SHIRAT HAYAM OF THE NORTH SHORE | $15,000 |
| THE CHARLES RIVER SCHOOL INC | $11,000 |
| BROOKWOOD SCHOOL INCORPORATED | $10,000 |
| YESTERMORROW INC | $5,000 |
| FAIRWIND LEARNING CENTER | $5,000 |
| LAPPIN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF YOUNG JUDAEA INC (DBA CAMP YJ) | $3,600 |
| CHABAD OF PEABODY JEWISH CENTER | $3,600 |
| CHABAD OF THE NORTH SHORE | $2,500 |
| CHABAD CENTER OF BROOKLINE | $1,800 |
| MAYYIM HAYYIM LIVING WATERS COMMUNITY MIKVEH & EDUCATION CENTER INC | $1,800 |
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 (FY24–25, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 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
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 +7% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 5 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC2× · 2024–2025 · $52k · revenue +32%
BROOKWOOD SCHOOL INCORPORATED2× · 2024–2025 · $23k · revenue +7%- TCTHE CHARLES RIVER SCHOOL INC2× · 2024–2025 · $13k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- CFCHANGING FUTURES INCone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
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How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 15 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.
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Howard a Cook Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Howard a Cook Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Plummer Youth Promise Inc: 64% of income from government
- Peabody Essex Museum Inc: 3% of income from government
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