· Private foundation
Joe and Louise Cook Foundation
Its FY2024 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOURNEY OF FAITH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $480,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +11% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TSTEMPLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA7× · 2017–2023 · $367k · revenue +161% · 80% of their budget
- SCSOUTHEAST CENTER FOR COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT4× · 2020–2023 · $320k · revenue +150% · 60% of their budget
- RMRECONCILING MINISTRIES NETWORK7× · 2017–2023 · $180k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- CACEN-TEX ALCOHOLIC REHABILITATION CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +33%
- RMRESURRECTION METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $25k
- SCSCARRITT-BENNETT CENTERone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -6%
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.
Public arts funding
To ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.
At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…
To provide educational and humanitarian services to those in need for the purpose of advancing Christian values in the United States and other nations
To educate students with the transforming truth of christ, inspiring academic excellence, godly character, and integrity in life pursuits.
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."
A consortium of universities in texas, with affiliate universities overseas, dedicated to developing, coordinating and implementing educational capacity-building programs around the world, and increasing capacity for campus globalization…
The Center of Theological Inquiry is an independent research institution with an international visiting scholar program which convenes researchers in an ideal setting for interdisciplinary inquiries where theology casts light on global…
Literacy Texas is the statewide literacy coalition, connecting and equipping adult and family literacy providers through training, networking, and advocacy.
Texas Legal Services Center is a nonprofit legal aid organization whose mission is to serve the undeserved by making civil justice accessible to every Texan--no matter their ability to earn. We're a coalition of attorneys, paralegals, pro…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Freedom Network Education Fund and the most unlike its peers is D L Dykes Jr Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% 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 15% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 49 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 TEMPLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST CENTER FOR COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds RECONCILING MINISTRIES NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Lydia Patterson Institute ↗
- Who funds Texas Interscholastic League Foundation ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI UNION COOPERATIVE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds We Care Palestine ↗
- Who funds Innocence Project of Texas ↗
- Who funds CULTURAL ACTIVITIES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Westar Institute ↗
- Who funds CHURCHES TOUCHING LIVES FOR CHRIST ↗
- Who funds CEN-TEX ALCOHOLIC REHABILITATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ACADEMIE MUSIQUE ↗
- Who funds SCARRITT-BENNETT CENTER ↗
- Who funds D L DYKES JR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL OF TEXAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds UPSHUR COUNTY LITERACY PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS FOR PROGRESS INC ↗
- Who funds TEMPLE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Houston Grand Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds TEMPLE CIVIC THEATRE ↗
- Who funds WORKERS DEFENSE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds TEMPLE LITERACY 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: E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · The Frank W & Sue Mayborn Foundation · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · The Dallas Foundation · City Federation of Women's Clubs of Temple · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Tides Foundation
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 Joe and Louise Cook Foundation 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.