Texas · 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.
- $480k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2024
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $480,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $480,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 32
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $7.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 15% of the organizations Joe and Louise Cook Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 1 | $480k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $481k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $511k | 9% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $401k | 3% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $448k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $430k | 7% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $417k | 17% |
| FY2017 | 32 | $387k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Temple Symphony Orchestra | $367,000 | 7 | 80% |
| Southeast Center for Cooperative Development | $320,000 | 4 | 60% |
| Reconciling Ministries Network | $180,000 | 7 | 4% |
| Lydia Patterson Institute | $127,125 | 7 | 1% |
| Texas Interscholastic League Foundation | $50,000 | 6 | 1% |
| We Care Palestine | $40,000 | 7 | 15% |
| Innocence Project of Texas | $40,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Cincinnati Union Cooperative Initiative | $40,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Cultural Activities Center Inc | $38,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Westar Institute | $35,000 | 2 | 5% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Joe and Louise Cook Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 31 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: 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
How this is measured
About Joe and Louise Cook Foundation
- How much does Joe and Louise Cook Foundation give?
- Joe and Louise Cook Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $480,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 32 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Joe and Louise Cook Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (53%), Arts & Culture (22%), Community Improvement (11%).
- Who are Joe and Louise Cook Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Temple Symphony Orchestra ($367k), Southeast Center for Cooperative Development ($320k), Reconciling Ministries Network ($180k).
- Does Joe and Louise Cook Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Joe and Louise Cook Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Joe and Louise Cook Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation, Austin Community Foundation Inc, The Frank W & Sue Mayborn Foundation.
- Where is Joe and Louise Cook Foundation based?
- Joe and Louise Cook Foundation is based in TX.
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