· Private foundation
Jerry & Marilyn Cook 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 97% of JERRY & MARILYN COOK FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $17k
- $250k+1 grant · $625k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NC STATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN | $625,000 |
| WILMINGTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $3,000 |
| UNC REX CANCER CENTER | $2,500 |
| CAPE FEAR RIVER WATCH | $2,000 |
| WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH HISTORY MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| KIDS MAKING IT | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| FOOD BANK OF NORTH CAROLINA | $500 |
| FELLOWSHIP HALL | $500 |
| UMCOR | $500 |
| ALLEGANY JUNIOR APPALACHIAN MUSICIANS | $500 |
| NOURISH NC | $500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against -17% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC6× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +46%- TWThe Wilmington Symphony Orchestra Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +96%
- FOFriends of Public Radio DBA WHQR6× · 2020–2025 · $4k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- WBWRIGHTSVILLE BEACH BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $3k
- PPPOOR PEOPLE'S CAMPAIGNone grant, 2021 · $1k
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2022 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.
The preservation of the heritage and history of Rockingham County, North Carolina
The Wireless Research Center is an independent, private nonprofit research center dedicated to applied research and engineering. Located in North Carolina's Research Triangle region, the WRC helps clients from around the world develop…
Match mentoring volunteers with children in need to build and foster relationships.
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
To promote the arts in caldwell county, nc
The mission of Historic Wilmington Foundation is to protect and preserve the irreplaceable historic resources of Wilmington and the Lower Cape Fear Region.
Carolina Youth Symphony provides professional training to young students and gives these students the opportunity to perform several public concerts throughout the year.
To advocate for the health of all North Carolinians by pursuing equitable and collaborative solutions that address climate change and air pollution.
Providing healthcare to the underserved population of Harnett County NC and the surrounding area.
Facilitate networking among hospitals
To honor, renew, and build community in the historic Northside, Pine Knolls, and Tin-Top neighborhoods of Chapel Hill and Carrboro, NC.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys Club of Wake County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rainbow 66 Storehouse Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 42 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Cape Fear River Watch ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds THE REX HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Wilmington Symphony Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP HALL INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Public Radio DBA WHQR ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHANY JAM ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds The Methodist Home for Children Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds NourishNC Inc ↗
- Who funds KIDS MAKING IT INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts Incorporated ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Beaufort Historical Association Inc ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW 66 STOREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SURRY ARTS COUNCIL ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: North Carolina Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · The Landfall Foundation Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Directed Balloun Family Foundation · The True North Foundation Co Amy Brown North · Maynard Family Foundation · W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation · A E Finley Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Jerry & Marilyn Cook Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.