· Private foundation
Kenneth Cook Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $58k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIDLAND CARE CONNECTION INC | $28,947 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $28,947 |
| JOHNSON COUNTRY COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $1,219 |
| LABETTE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $1,219 |
| LIBERTY UNIVERSITY | $1,219 |
| PITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,219 |
| BENEDICTINE COLLEGE | $1,219 |
| EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,219 |
| DRURY UNIVERSITY | $1,219 |
| WHITE LINE CDL TRAINING | $914 |
| WASHBURN UNIVERSITY | $914 |
| HIGHLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $611 |
| BAKER UNIVERSITY | $611 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $213k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +76% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MCMIDLAND CARE CONNECTION INC7× · 2018–2025 · $213k · revenue +166%
- GCGENEVA COLLEGE3× · 2017–2022 · $3k · revenue +17%
- BCBenedictine College2× · 2019–2025 · $2k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- KSKENTUCKY STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $3k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ST MARYone grant, 2019 · $2k
- JCJOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2023 · $2k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.
As an institution of higher education committed to the reformed christian perspective, dordt university equips students, alumni, and the broader community to work effectively toward christ-centered renewal in all aspects of contemporary…
Belhaven university prepares students academically and spiritually to serve jesus christ in their careers, in human relationships, and in the world of ideas.
Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…
Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Founded by the norwegian evangelical lutheran church in 1861, luther college is a four-year, residential liberal arts institution. luther welcomes students of all backgrounds to engage in a way of learning that moves beyond immediate…
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MIDLAND CARE CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds GENEVA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Benedictine College ↗
- Who funds BAKER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Drury University ↗
- Who funds Evangel University ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAINT MARY INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS ↗
- Who funds Tabor College ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kenneth Cook Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kenneth Cook Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
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