Connecticut · Private foundation
John Brown Cook Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2024
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $200,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $475,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 15
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $38M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 15% of the organizations John Brown Cook Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k 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 | 14 | $2.9M | 21% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $2.6M | 15% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $3.6M | 7% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $2.7M | 36% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $3.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Institute for Justice | $1,950,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Moving Picture Institute | $1,575,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Inc | $1,325,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Accuracy in Media Inc | $1,125,000 | 4 | 46% |
| Venture for America Inc | $1,100,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Documenting Hope Inc | $1,025,000 | 5 | 59% |
| Emergent Order Foundation Inc | $875,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Project Veritas | $675,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Teachers College Columbia University | $450,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The American Conservative | $350,000 | 3 | 7% |
Show all 18 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Institute for Justice | $1,950,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Moving Picture Institute | $1,575,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Inc | $1,325,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Accuracy in Media Inc | $1,125,000 | 4 | 46% |
| Venture for America Inc | $1,100,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Documenting Hope Inc | $1,025,000 | 5 | 59% |
| Emergent Order Foundation Inc | $875,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Project Veritas | $675,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Teachers College Columbia University | $450,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The American Conservative | $350,000 | 3 | 7% |
| Global Peht Corp Partnership to End Human Trafficking | $295,000 | 2 | 10% |
| Uatx | $150,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Constructive Dialogue Institute Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Independence Institute | $125,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Prager University Foundation | $125,000 | 2 | 0% |
| America's Future Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 3% |
| The Fairness Center Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Opencollective Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
John Brown Cook Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 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: Donors Trust Inc · Adolph Coors Foundation · The Dunn Foundation · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About John Brown Cook Foundation
- How much does John Brown Cook Foundation give?
- John Brown Cook Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $2,925,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 15 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does John Brown Cook Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (28%), Health (28%), Crime & Legal (13%).
- Who are John Brown Cook Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Institute for Justice ($1.9M), Moving Picture Institute ($1.6M), Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Inc ($1.3M).
- Does John Brown Cook Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does John Brown Cook Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as John Brown Cook Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donors Trust Inc, Adolph Coors Foundation, The Dunn Foundation.
- Where is John Brown Cook Foundation based?
- John Brown Cook Foundation is based in CT.
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