· Private foundation
Mark and Judith Cook Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k15 grants · $315k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $255k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JACKSONVILLE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT | $125,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON | $75,000 |
| TAMINA COMMUNITY CENTER | $55,000 |
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD BANK INC | $30,000 |
| WEST STREET RECOVERY | $30,000 |
| CONROE ART LEAGUE INC | $25,000 |
| HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| FIEL HOUSTON INC | $25,000 |
| SHAPE COMMUNITY CENTER | $25,000 |
| ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER | $20,000 |
| TEXAS CASA INC | $20,000 |
| JEFFERSON COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| HOUSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| THE HOUSTON FOOD BANK | $15,000 |
| SHARE OUR STRENGTH | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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.
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 +30% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 10 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $185k 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
- TCTexas Children's Hospital4× · 2017–2020 · $400k · revenue +78%
- CFCHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare2× · 2022–2023 · $125k · revenue +6%
- WSWest Street Recovery3× · 2022–2025 · $60k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- CHChristus Healthone grant, 2024 · $60k · revenue +2%
- LSLONE STAR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERone grant, 2024 · $12k · revenue 0%
- JPJAIL PROJECT OF TEXASone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -21%
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.
The mission of Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County (Family Houston) is to create a stronger community for tomorrow by helping individuals and families meet the challenges they face today. We help others help themselves.
Houston MediaSource aspires to be the community media center for the City of Houston. HMS provides public access to media platforms that promote citizen engagement, protect the right to free expression, and provide opportunities to advance…
Our mission is to be the leading advocate for our member physicians, their patients and our community, in promoting the highest standards of ethical medical practice, access to quality medical care, medical education, research, and…
American Leadership Forum (ALF) brings together, in classes, leaders with diverse perspectives so they can build relationships, learn to dialogue and respectfully differ, and work together for the good of our community.
The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.
The mission of the Houston Academy of Medicine is to support the community service, education, scientific, and charitable programs for physicians, their patients, and the community at large in Harris County.
The mission of the Houston Museum of Natural Science shall be to preserve and advance the general knowledge of natural science; to enhance in individuals the knowledge of and delight in natural science and related subjects; and to maintain…
Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…
To implement solutions that promote good health for the individual, the health system and the community. we collaborate with others as well as create signature, evidence-based ways to improve the communities where people live, work, learn…
The Health Museum is an innovative science center that provides an interactive and entertaining experience for all ages, promotes understanding and appreciation of the human body, mind, and spirit, and inspires a lifelong commitment to…
Houston health foundation (hhf) has the mission of creating private/public partnerships for sustainable health and wellness initiatives and programs in our communities.
To increase the number of healthy families in our community by providing high quality, comprehensive health services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lone Star Community Health Center and the most unlike its peers is Tamina Community Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 25 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 Tamina Community Center ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds CHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare ↗
- Who funds West Street Recovery ↗
- Who funds Houston Public Media Foundation ↗
- Who funds Christus Health ↗
- Who funds CONROE ART LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIEL HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds SHAPE Community Center ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds LONE STAR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds JAIL PROJECT OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds THE TRAINING KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds DOCTORS FOR CHANGE ↗
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: Houston Endowment Inc · United Way of Greater Houston · Shell USA Company Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Mark and Judith 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.