New Jersey · Private foundation
Mark and Judith Cook Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $570k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $125,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 9
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 44% of the organizations Mark and Judith Cook Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k 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 | 18 | $570k | 56% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $298k | 44% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $137k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $480k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $417k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $505k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $750k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $750k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tamina Community Center | $472,000 | 9 | 59% |
| Texas Children's Hospital | $400,000 | 4 | 0% |
| CHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare | $124,650 | 2 | 1% |
| West Street Recovery | $60,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Houston Public Media Foundation | $60,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Christus Health | $59,825 | 1 | 0% |
| Conroe Art League Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 21% |
| Montgomery County Food Bank Inc | $45,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Jefferson County Library Foundation | $30,000 | 2 | 1% |
| SHAPE Community Center | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tamina Community Center | $472,000 | 9 | 59% |
| Texas Children's Hospital | $400,000 | 4 | 0% |
| CHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare | $124,650 | 2 | 1% |
| West Street Recovery | $60,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Houston Public Media Foundation | $60,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Christus Health | $59,825 | 1 | 0% |
| Conroe Art League Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 21% |
| Montgomery County Food Bank Inc | $45,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Jefferson County Library Foundation | $30,000 | 2 | 1% |
| SHAPE Community Center | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Fiel Houston Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Houston Public Library Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Art Students League of Denver | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Share Our Strength | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Houston Food Bank | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| United Way of Greater Houston | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lone Star Community Health Center | $12,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jail Project of Texas | $10,000 | 1 | 4% |
| The Training Kitchen | $7,500 | 1 | 8% |
| Doctors for Change | $5,000 | 1 | 3% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Mark and Judith Cook Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 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: Houston Endowment Inc · United Way of Greater Houston · Shell USA Company Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Mark and Judith Cook Foundation
- How much does Mark and Judith Cook Foundation give?
- Mark and Judith Cook Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $570,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Mark and Judith Cook Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (66%), Health (14%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are Mark and Judith Cook Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Tamina Community Center ($472k), Texas Children's Hospital ($400k), CHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare ($125k).
- Does Mark and Judith Cook Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mark and Judith Cook Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mark and Judith Cook Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Houston Endowment Inc, United Way of Greater Houston, Shell USA Company Foundation.
- Where is Mark and Judith Cook Foundation based?
- Mark and Judith Cook Foundation is based in NJ.
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