Michigan · Private foundation
Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $4.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 188
- Grants FY2024
- 140
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $233,334
- Organizations funded a year
- 134 to 152
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 18
- Total assets, FY2024
- $43M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $391k 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 | 150 | $4.3M | 19% |
| FY2023 | 140 | $4.0M | 14% |
| FY2022 | 152 | $3.3M | 31% |
| FY2021 | 134 | $4.1M | 30% |
| FY2020 | 137 | $3.5M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mel Trotter Ministries | $767,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Grand Valley University Foundation | $656,050 | 5 | 14% |
| Grand Rapids Community College Foundation | $650,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Branch Interfaith Hospitality Network | $616,000 | 5 | 33% |
| Hope College | $524,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Grandville Avenue Arts and Humanities Inc | $505,000 | 5 | 16% |
| Degage Ministries | $452,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Grand Rapids Art Museum | $390,000 | 4 | 3% |
| The Potters House | $382,500 | 4 | 2% |
| John Ball Zoo | $380,500 | 5 | 2% |
Show all 200 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 71 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 165 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: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Frey Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · The Meijer Foundation · Cdv5 Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · The Wege Foundation · The David and Carol Van Andel Family Foundation · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · The Sebastian Foundation · The Mercantile Bank Foundation
How this is measured
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About Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation
- How much does Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation give?
- Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation reported 188 grants totaling $4,329,589 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 134 and 152 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (17%), Religion (15%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Mel Trotter Ministries ($768k), Grand Valley University Foundation ($656k), Grand Rapids Community College Foundation ($650k).
- Does Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Grand Rapids Community Foundation, Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation, Frey Foundation.
- Where is Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation based?
- Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation is based in MI.
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