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Jack Kent Cooke Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$25M
Granted FY2025still arriving
1,419
Grants FY2025still arriving
17
States reached
$515k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$193MArts & Culture$5.5MHealth$1.8MScience & Tech$1.8MYouth Development$889kEmployment$771kSocial Science$657kCommunity Improvement$379kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1419 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k819 grants · $3.8M
  • $10k–50k466 grants · $11M
  • $50k–250k131 grants · $9.2M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
$7,702
Median grant
17
States reached
$940M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FROM THE TOP INC$515,000
AMERICAN INDIAN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SOCIETY$500,000
THE LOUDOUN EDUCATION FOUNDATION$300,000
MATRICULATE INC$200,000
GROVE COLLECTIVE FOUNDATION$200,000
EMERGE FELLOWSHIP$200,000
HIGH JUMP$150,000
ART OF PROBLEM SOLVING INITIATIVE INC$150,000
COLLEGIATE DIRECTIONS INCORPORATED$100,000
CRISTO REY NETWORK$100,000
THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC$100,000
HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA$100,000
OPEN DOORS OF ASHEVILLE INC$100,000
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY$100,000
ENGINEERING FOR US ALL INC$100,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC: $10k → 12%NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP PROVIDERS ASSOCIATION: $15k → 8%MATRICULATE INC: $100k → 20%ASPIRE AFTERSCHOOL LEARNING: $30k → 7%MATRICULATE INC: $150k → 17%A FARM LESS ORDINARY: $250 → 7%A FARM LESS ORDINARY: $100 → 7%Young Eisner Scholars (YES): $150k → 14%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $150k → 14%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $150k → 14%The Young Center For Immigrant Childrens Rights: $75 → 14%Asian American LEAD: $250 → 14%TEAK Fellowship Inc: $200k → 17%MATRICULATE INC: $250k → 17%TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $150k → 17%MATRICULATE INC: $200k → 17%The TEAK Fellowship: $10k → 17%Matriculate: $200k → 17%FLOC FOR LOVE OF CHILDREN: $20k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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IL
WI
MI
NY
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OR
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IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
NM
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$175M · 1765 repeat orgs$23M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

1765 repeat relationships: 786 still active in FY2025, 979 since wound down; 39 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1765
190

Total granted

$175M
$22M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+26%

Still filing today

3%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • LE
    LOUDOUN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +315%
  • LE
    LEADERSHIP ENTERPRISE FOR A DIVERSE AMERICA
    7× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +145%
  • AI
    AMERICAN INDIAN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SOCIETY
    2× · 2023–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • NS
    NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC AND SUBSIDIARYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue +39%
  • FA
    Florida Agricultural & Mechanical Univ Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue +27%
  • NC
    NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
6
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
7
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
8
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
9
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
10
Goucher College

Goucher College provides an innovative liberal arts education that prepares students with a broad, humane perspective for a life of inquiry, creativity, and critical and analytical thinking. The College's vision is to become a top-100…

Education
11
Washington & Jefferson College

To graduate people of uncommon integrity, competence, and maturity, who are effective lifelong learners and responsible citizens, and who are prepared to contribute substantially to the world in which they live.

Education
12
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grantmakers for Education; the most unlike its peers is Robert a Treakle and Linda S Treakle Scholarship Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

121 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. 121 of the 2,000 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
35
Early backer (in before they grew)
119/121
Grantees still filing
85/121
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

+167 more: $46,340,002 · Other+167 moreLEADERSHIP ENTERPRISE FOR A DIVERSE AMERICA: $1,325,000 · EducationLEADERSHIP ENTERPRIS…NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC AND SUBSIDIARY: $1,040,000 · EducationNORFOLK STATE UNIVER…UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,250 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MARYLA…Florida Agricultural & Mechanical Univ Foundation Inc: $1,000,000 · EducationFlorida Agricultural…THE MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 · EducationTHE MORGAN STATE UNI…University of California Merced Foundation: $1,000,000 · EducationUniversity of Califo…THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF NO…THRIVE SCHOLARS: $800,000 · EducationTHRIVE SCHOLARSHIGH JUMP: $800,000 · EducationHIGH JUMPEMERGE Fellowship: $700,000 · EducationEMERGE Fellowship+12 more: $3,267,497 · Education+12 moreFROM THE TOP INC: $4,670,100 · Arts & CultureEDITORIAL PROJECTS IN EDUCATION INC: $710,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $250,000 · Arts & CultureLOUDOUN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $2,461,803 · PhilanthropyMATRICULATE INC: $900,000 · Human ServicesTHE STEPHEN C ROSE LEGACY FOUNDATION: $600,000 · Human ServicesYoung Eisner Scholars: $450,000 · Human ServicesTHE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $359,500 · Human ServicesActive Minds Inc: $600,000 · HealthTHE JED FOUNDATION: $545,000 · HealthSOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC: $750,000 · Science & Tech
Other$46,340,002Education$12,932,747Arts & Culture$5,630,100Philanthropy$2,461,803Human Services$2,309,500Health$1,145,000Science & Tech$750,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFROM THE TOP INC: $4,670,100 over 8y, 28% of budgetLOUDOUN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $2,461,803 over 8y, 16% of budgetLEADERSHIP ENTERPRISE FOR A DIVERSE AMERICA: $1,325,000 over 7y, 15% of budgetNORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC AND SUBSIDIARY: $1,040,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,250 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetFlorida Agricultural & Mechanical Univ Foundation Inc: $1,000,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTHE MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetUniversity of California Merced Foundation: $1,000,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SOCIETY: $1,000,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetTHE ART OF PROBLEM SOLVING INITIATIVE INC: $950,200 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetMATRICULATE INC: $900,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetTHRIVE SCHOLARS: $800,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetHIGH JUMP: $800,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetSOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC: $750,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetEDITORIAL PROJECTS IN EDUCATION INC: $710,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetEMERGE Fellowship: $700,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $657,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE STEPHEN C ROSE LEGACY FOUNDATION: $600,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetActive Minds Inc: $600,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetNorthern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation Inc: $551,075 over 6y, 12% of budgetDELAWARE COLLEGE SCHOLARS INC: $550,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetTHE JED FOUNDATION: $545,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetYoung Eisner Scholars: $450,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetThe Ingenuity Project Inc: $400,000 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $376,436 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $359,500 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetHEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA: $350,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetGROVE COLLECTIVE FOUNDATION: $325,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetSTEPPINGSTONE SCHOLARS INC: $300,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetLEADERSHIP EDUCATION AND ATHLETICS IN PARTNERSHIP INC: $300,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetCOLLEGIATE DIRECTIONS INC: $266,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $250,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSETON HALL UNIVERSITY: $225,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $222,386 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEMICY SCHOOL INC: $220,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTeachers College Columbia University: $217,675 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Innovations in Education: $200,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetGIRLS WHO INVEST INC: $200,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetNational Education Opportunity Network Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetGENESYS WORKS: $190,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budget
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.

  • Who funds FROM THE TOP INC ↗
  • Who funds LOUDOUN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LEADERSHIP ENTERPRISE FOR A DIVERSE AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC AND SUBSIDIARY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Florida Agricultural & Mechanical Univ Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds University of California Merced Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds ALABAMA A&M UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE ART OF PROBLEM SOLVING INITIATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds MATRICULATE INC ↗
  • Who funds THRIVE SCHOLARS ↗
  • Who funds HIGH JUMP ↗
  • Who funds SOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC ↗
  • Who funds EDITORIAL PROJECTS IN EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds EMERGE Fellowship ↗
  • Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE STEPHEN C ROSE LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Active Minds Inc ↗
  • Who funds Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds DELAWARE COLLEGE SCHOLARS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JED FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Young Eisner Scholars ↗
  • Who funds The Ingenuity Project Inc ↗
  • Who funds GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA ↗

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.

The Morris and Gwendo…Clark-Winchcole Found…Philip L Graham Fund …Greater Washington Co…Dimick Foundation Joh…United Way of the Nat…The Community Foundat…Hattie M Strong Found…Clark Charitable Foun…John Edward Fowler Me…Harman Family Foundat…The Webber Family Fou…
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz FoundationDC50.8× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jack Kent Cooke Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Engineering for Us All Inc: 68% of income from government
  • Education Development Center Inc: 65% of income from government
  • The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Friends Center for Children Inc: 21% of income from government
  • Delaware College Scholars Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Leadership Education and Athletics in Partnership Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Shakespeare Company: 16% of income from government
  • Everyman Theatre Inc: 15% of income from government
  • New Haven Reads Community Book Bank Inc: 13% of income from government
  • National History Day Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • The Morgan State University Foundation Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Center Stage Associates Inc: 7% of income from government
  • From the Top Inc: 6% of income from government
  • First Generation College Bound Inc: 6% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Adventure Theatre Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Health Care for the Homeless Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The United Way of Central Maryland Inc: 2% of income from government
  • National Aquarium Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Seton Hall University: 1% of income from government
  • Uaspire Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Ourspace World Inc: 0% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
54report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Jack Kent Cooke Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Jack Kent Cooke Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 2000 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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