Minnesota · Private foundation
Kenneth Cook Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $69k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,219
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $28,947
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Kenneth Cook Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 13 | $69k | 31% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $61k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $60k | 58% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $74k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $66k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $63k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $65k | 69% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $117k | 57% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Midland Care Connection Inc | $212,844 | 7 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $158,387 | 6 | n/a |
| Salvation Army | $80,172 | 2 | n/a |
| Kansas State University | $13,015 | 7 | n/a |
| Geneva College | $2,609 | 3 | 0% |
| Benedictine College | $2,493 | 2 | 0% |
| Baker University | $2,130 | 3 | 0% |
| Johnson County Community College | $2,010 | 1 | n/a |
| Liberty University Inc | $1,219 | 1 | 0% |
| Drury University | $1,219 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 15 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Midland Care Connection Inc | $212,844 | 7 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $158,387 | 6 | n/a |
| Salvation Army | $80,172 | 2 | n/a |
| Kansas State University | $13,015 | 7 | n/a |
| Geneva College | $2,609 | 3 | 0% |
| Benedictine College | $2,493 | 2 | 0% |
| Baker University | $2,130 | 3 | 0% |
| Johnson County Community College | $2,010 | 1 | n/a |
| Liberty University Inc | $1,219 | 1 | 0% |
| Drury University | $1,219 | 1 | 0% |
| Evangel University | $1,008 | 1 | 0% |
| Ktwu | $861 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Saint Mary Inc | $575 | 1 | 0% |
| College of the Ozarks | $547 | 1 | 0% |
| Tabor College | $510 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($103k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kenneth Cook Trust supplied at peak.
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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: Je and le Mabee Foundation Inc · Folds of Honor Foundation · Margaret Nelson Castle College Scholarship Trust · Jellison Benevolent Society Inc · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Kenneth Cook Trust
- How much does Kenneth Cook Trust give?
- Kenneth Cook Trust reported 13 grants totaling $69,477 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Kenneth Cook Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (77%), Education (17%), Health (5%).
- Who are Kenneth Cook Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Midland Care Connection Inc ($213k), The Salvation Army ($158k), Salvation Army ($80k).
- Does Kenneth Cook Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kenneth Cook Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Kenneth Cook Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Je and le Mabee Foundation Inc, Folds of Honor Foundation, Margaret Nelson Castle College Scholarship Trust.
- Where is Kenneth Cook Trust based?
- Kenneth Cook Trust is based in MN.
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