Virginia · Private foundation
Jack Kent Cooke Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $25M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1,419
- Grants FY2025
- 940
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,702
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $515,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 848 to 1,042
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 17
- Total assets, FY2025
- $940M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Jack Kent Cooke Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.5M 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 | 825 | $23M | 5% |
| FY2024 | 940 | $23M | 8% |
| FY2023 | 1,042 | $28M | 17% |
| FY2022 | 1,006 | $25M | 19% |
| FY2021 | 929 | $22M | 17% |
| FY2020 | 923 | $20M | 20% |
| FY2019 | 903 | $21M | 22% |
| FY2018 | 848 | $17M | 22% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| From the Top Inc | $4,670,100 | 8 | 28% |
| Loudoun Education Foundation Inc | $2,461,803 | 8 | 16% |
| Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America | $1,325,000 | 7 | 15% |
| Norfolk State University Foundation Inc and Subsidiary | $1,040,000 | 1 | 11% |
| University of Maryland Foundation Inc | $1,000,250 | 2 | 2% |
| Florida Agricultural & Mechanical Univ Foundation Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | 4% |
| The Morgan State University Foundation Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | 7% |
| University of California Merced Foundation | $1,000,000 | 1 | 14% |
| The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Foundation Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | 2% |
| American Indian Science and Engineering Society | $1,000,000 | 2 | 4% |
Show all 120 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 1,874 recipients with no EIN on record ($162M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Jack Kent Cooke Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 105 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: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · United Way of the National Capital Area · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · Hattie M Strong Foundation · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · Harman Family Foundation · The Webber Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Jack Kent Cooke Foundation
- How much does Jack Kent Cooke Foundation give?
- Jack Kent Cooke Foundation reported 1,419 grants totaling $25,128,394 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 848 and 1,042 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Jack Kent Cooke Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (94%), Arts & Culture (3%), Health (1%).
- Who are Jack Kent Cooke Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: From the Top Inc ($4.7M), Loudoun Education Foundation Inc ($2.5M), Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America ($1.3M).
- Does Jack Kent Cooke Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jack Kent Cooke Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Jack Kent Cooke Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Clark-Winchcole Foundation, Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company.
- Where is Jack Kent Cooke Foundation based?
- Jack Kent Cooke Foundation is based in VA.
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