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Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
188
Grants FY2024still arriving
18
States reached
$233k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$3.3MReligion$2.9MHuman Services$2.2MHousing & Shelter$2.2MArts & Culture$1.8MHealth$1.4MFood & Nutrition$965kYouth Development$930kOther$0
02FY2024 · 188 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k97 grants · $245k
  • $10k–50k56 grants · $1.1M
  • $50k–250k35 grants · $3.0M
$7,500
Median grant
18
States reached
$43M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL$233,334
MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES$175,000
PINE REST FOUNDATION$167,000
DAVID'S HOUSE MINISTRIES$125,000
BRIDGE STREET MINISTRIES$110,000
HOPE COLLEGE$100,000
GRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM$100,000
WEST MICHIGAN SPORTS COMMISSION$100,000
GRAND VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$100,000
GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$100,000
GRANDVILLE AVENUE ARTS & HUMANITIES$100,000
CRITTER BARN$100,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KENT COUNTY$100,000
FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN$100,000
VAN ANDEL INSTITUTE$100,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OVERLAND MISSIONS: $7k → 10%CAMP NEWAYGO: $20k → 13%SAMARITAS: $50k → 21%OVERLAND MISSIONS: $7k → 10%SAMARITAS: $50k → 21%SAMARITAS: $50k → 21%SAMARITAS: $21k → 21%GRANT ME HOPE: $5k → 10%GRANT ME HOPE: $5k → 10%GEORGETOWN HARMONY HOMES: $15k → 8%CRITTER BARN: $100k → 8%CRITTER BARN: $100k → 8%BUIST COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER: $40k → 11%HOLLAND HOME: $210k → 11%HOLLAND HOME: $25k → 11%PINE REST FOUNDATION: $167k → 11%STREAMS OF HOPE: $25k → 11%FLAT RIVER OUTREACH MINISTRIES: $8k → 11%UCOM: $83k → 11%NORTH KENT CONNECT: $200k → 11%BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER: $41k → 11%NORTH KENT CONNECT: $50k → 11%BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER: $40k → 11%BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER: $36k → 11%NORTH KENT CONNECT: $25k → 11%BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER: $36k → 11%BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 11%THE STOREHOUSE: $20k → 11%THE STOREHOUSE: $20k → 11%THE STOREHOUSE: $20k → 11%ARBOR CIRCLE: $18k → 11%UCOM: $25k → 11%UCOM: $25k → 11%THE STOREHOUSE OF COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 11%UCOM: $20k → 11%UCOM: $20k → 11%UCOM: $20k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER GRAND RAPIDS: $50k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER GRAND RAPIDS: $50k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER GRAND RAPIDS: $50k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER GRAND RAPIDS: $50k → 11%DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING SERVICES: $40k → 11%DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING SERVICES: $10k → 11%DEGAGE MINISTRIES: $275k → 11%DEGAGE MINISTRIES: $100k → 11%DEGAGE MINISTRIES: $50k → 11%DEGAGE MINISTRIES: $14k → 11%DEGAGE MINISTRIES: $6k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

AK
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OR
IN
OH
PA
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CA
CO
MO
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VA
MD
AZ
AR
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SC
DC
OK
GA
TX
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$17M · 169 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

169 repeat relationships — 122 still active in FY2024, 47 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

169
74

Total granted

$17M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+6%

Still filing today

63%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $944k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationInternationalHealthArts & CultureReligionOther

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

  • MT
    MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES
    5× · 2020–2024 · $768k · revenue +41%
  • GR
    GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $650k · revenue +18%
  • BI
    Branch Interfaith Hospitality Network
    5× · 2020–2024 · $616k · revenue +82% · 33% of their budget

Funded once

  • EA
    Ecliptic At Rosa Parks Circle Conservancy
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • GR
    GRAND RAPIDS CIVIC THEATRE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +6%
  • MC
    MSU COLLEGE OF HUMAN MEDICINE
    one grant, 2020 · $100k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
West Michigan Christian Foundation

None

Religion
2
Michigan Christian Home

The michigan christian home dba beacon hill at eastgate, a not-for-profit corporation, provides housing and health services in a christian environment for older adults, thus enabling them to meet their ongoing physical, social and…

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3
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
4
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County

Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County D/B/A Catholic Charities Washtenaw County provides diverse, holistic social services including adoption and pregnancy counseling, food and basic needs assistance, domestic and child abuse…

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5
Greater Lansing Youth for Christ

To communicate the relevance of the life-changing message of jesus christ to youth by example and word and challenging them to trust christ and to live for him.

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6
Christian Healthcare Ministries Inc

To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.

Religion
7
Movement West Michigan

Uniting christian faith leaders to serve with humility and love for the flourishing of all in our community.

Religion
8
Hope House of Northwest Michigan

Hope house of northwest michigan is a non-profit christian maternity home that provides a safe loving residential environment for single expectant young women. through up to two years of residence the organization offers housing baby…

Human Services
9
Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries
Health
10
Gospel Inc

To develop community with the formerly homeless. to offer services to the formerly homeless regardless of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, or religious affiliation. to share the love of god with all people we come into contact with.

Human Services
11
Crossroads Christian Counseling

Crossroads combines innovative clinical counseling with a redemptive worldview to restore people to emotional health, relational unity, and a hopeful future.

Human Services
12
Advent House Ministries Inc

To provide a ministry in the form of services to the poor and disadvantaged people of the lansing area.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health Intervention Services and the most unlike its peers is Michelle Marie Lunn Hope Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Social ServicesCommunity OrganizationsFaith-Based K-12 SchoolsHousing and Basic Needs Sup…Youth Sports OrganizationsYouth Development and Empow…West Michigan Community Org…Community Support ServicesKent County Community Servi…Healthcare Systems and Serv…Family Philanthropic Founda…Workforce Development & Emp…Fraternity Chapter Organiza…Animal Rescue and Shelter S…Faith-Based Humanitarian AidSenior & Community Healthca…Faith-Based Relief and Deve…Grand Rapids Cultural Insti…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr13%9%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr15%22%20–35yr14%24%35–55yr18%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%2%<5yr13%4%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr15%21%20–35yr14%27%35–55yr18%37%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1.0%2/204
the rest of the field
12%
6,509/53,652

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

175 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 175 of the 275 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
169/175
Grantees still filing
103/175
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES — $767,500 · OtherMEL TROTTER MINISTRIESGRAND VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $656,050 · OtherGRAND VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONJOHN BALL ZOO — $380,500 · Other+121 more — $8,348,441 · Other+121 moreGRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $650,000 · EducationGRAND RAPIDS CO…HOPE COLLEGE — $524,500 · EducationHOPE COLLEGEThe Potters House — $382,500 · EducationThe Potters Hou…Aquinas College — $117,000 · EducationGRACE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · EducationWEST MICHIGAN CONSTRUCTION INSTITUTE — $100,000 · EducationDAVENPORT UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · EducationCALVIN UNIVERSITY — $97,000 · Education+11 more — $500,500 · Education+11 moreDEGAGE MINISTRIES — $452,000 · Human ServicesDEGAGE MINISTRI…ROCKFORD COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER — $288,750 · Human ServicesROCKFORD COMMUN…Holland Home — $235,000 · Human ServicesHolland HomeThe Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Grand Rapids (3019) — $200,000 · Human ServicesThe Young Men's…CRITTER BARN — $200,000 · Human ServicesCRITTER BARNUNITED CHURCH OUTREACH MINISTRY — $193,000 · Human ServicesUNITED CHURCH O…BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER — $177,000 · Human ServicesBAXTER COMMUNIT…SAMARITAS — $173,550 · Human ServicesSAMARITASPINE REST FOUNDATION — $167,000 · Human ServicesPINE REST FOUND…WEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES — $112,000 · Human Services+15 more — $340,918 · Human Services+15 moreGrandville Avenue Arts and Humanities Inc — $505,000 · Arts & CultureGRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM — $390,000 · Arts & CultureGRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC MUSEUM — $179,500 · Arts & CultureEcliptic At Rosa Parks Circle Conservancy — $100,000 · Arts & CultureGRAND RAPIDS CIVIC THEATRE INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureAfter Word Music Ministry — $62,500 · Arts & CultureARTPRIZE GRAND RAPIDS — $60,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $56,500 · Arts & CultureBranch Interfaith Hospitality Network — $616,000 · Housing & ShelterICCF COMMUNITY HOMES — $130,000 · Housing & ShelterDAVID'S HOUSE MINISTRIES — $125,000 · Housing & ShelterEAST FULTON UNITS FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Housing & ShelterBEER CITY DOG BISCUITS — $42,500 · Housing & Shelter+3 more — $58,750 · Housing & ShelterSPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC — $200,000 · Recreation & SportsGRACE ADVENTURES — $150,000 · Recreation & SportsINDIAN TRAILS CAMP — $108,250 · Recreation & SportsWEST MICHIGAN SPORTS COMMISSION — $100,000 · Recreation & SportsTALL TURF MINISTRIES — $84,300 · Recreation & SportsOTTAWA COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 · Recreation & SportsCAMP ROGER — $37,250 · Recreation & SportsVAN ANDEL INSTITUTE — $301,500 · PhilanthropyDISABILITY ADVOCATES OF KENT COUNTY — $151,500 · PhilanthropySTEPHEN'S CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · PhilanthropyGRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $53,000 · PhilanthropyGRACIOUS GROUNDS INC — $25,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $8,000 · Philanthropy
Other$10,152,491Education$2,571,500Human Services$2,539,218Arts & Culture$1,453,500Housing & Shelter$1,022,250Recreation & Sports$754,800Philanthropy$639,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMEL TROTTER MINISTRIES — $767,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetGRAND VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $656,050 over 5y, 14% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $650,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetBranch Interfaith Hospitality Network — $616,000 over 5y, 33% of budgetHOPE COLLEGE — $524,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGrandville Avenue Arts and Humanities Inc — $505,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetDEGAGE MINISTRIES — $452,000 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM — $390,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetThe Potters House — $382,500 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetJOHN BALL ZOO — $380,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetVAN ANDEL INSTITUTE — $301,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN — $290,250 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetROCKFORD COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER — $288,750 over 5y, 7.7% of budgetWEST MICHIGAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY INC DBA FREDERIK MEIJER GARDENS — $250,600 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetKENT COUNTY YOUTH AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION — $250,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetROOSEVELT PARK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION — $244,000 over 5y, 24% of budgetHolland Home — $235,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL — $233,334 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAND2HAND — $225,200 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS WESTERN MICHIGAN — $212,520 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetThe Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Grand Rapids (3019) — $200,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC — $200,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCRITTER BARN — $200,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetUNITED CHURCH OUTREACH MINISTRY — $193,000 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE MICHIGAN GREAT LAKES INC — $184,500 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetBridge Street House of Prayer — $180,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC MUSEUM — $179,500 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetBAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER — $177,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetSAMARITAS — $173,550 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPINE REST FOUNDATION — $167,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KENT COUNTY INC — $151,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetDISABILITY ADVOCATES OF KENT COUNTY — $151,500 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetGRACE ADVENTURES — $150,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetHEALTH INTERVENTION SERVICES — $145,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC — $144,750 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGENEVA CAMP & RETREAT CENTER — $132,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetICCF COMMUNITY HOMES — $130,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES WESTERN MICHIGAN — $130,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetWOMEN AT RISK INTERNATIONAL INC — $129,270 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetDAVID'S HOUSE MINISTRIES — $125,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFREEDOM ALLIANCE — $120,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAquinas College — $117,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES — $112,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCURE INTERNATIONAL INC — $109,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetINDIAN TRAILS CAMP — $108,250 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetFANS OF VALLEY FIELD — $104,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetHELP Pregnancy Crisis Aid Inc — $101,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetWEST MICHIGAN TRAILS & GREENWAYS COALITION — $100,000 over 2y, 18% of budget
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 MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds GRAND VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Branch Interfaith Hospitality Network ↗
  • Who funds HOPE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Grandville Avenue Arts and Humanities Inc ↗
  • Who funds DEGAGE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds GRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds The Potters House ↗
  • Who funds JOHN BALL ZOO ↗
  • Who funds VAN ANDEL INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds ROCKFORD COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WEST MICHIGAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY INC DBA FREDERIK MEIJER GARDENS ↗
  • Who funds KENT COUNTY YOUTH AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds ROOSEVELT PARK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Holland Home ↗
  • Who funds MARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds HAND2HAND ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS WESTERN MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Grand Rapids (3019) ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC ↗
  • Who funds CRITTER BARN ↗
  • Who funds UNITED CHURCH OUTREACH MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE MICHIGAN GREAT LAKES INC ↗
  • Who funds Bridge Street House of Prayer ↗
  • Who funds GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAS ↗
  • Who funds PINE REST FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KENT COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds DISABILITY ADVOCATES OF KENT COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds GRACE ADVENTURES ↗

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.

Grand Rapids Communit…Douglas & Maria Devos…Frey FoundationHeart of West Michiga…The Meijer FoundationCdv5 FoundationDick and Betsy Devos …The Wege FoundationThe David and Carol V…Grand Haven Area Comm…The Sebastian Foundat…The Mercantile Bank F…
Grand Rapids Community FoundationMI165.9× affinity95 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Peter C & Emajean 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
46report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 275 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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