Skip to content

· Private foundation

T Sherwin Cook Foundation Xxx-Xx-Xxxx

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$105k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$462kEducation$335kInternational$44kArts & Culture$16kPublic Safety & Disaster$15kHuman Services$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $73k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIBERTY UNIVERSITY$22,500
CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT$10,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$10,000
CAIRN UNIVERSITY$10,000
GLORY OUTREACH ASSEMBLY$10,000
GOD'S PIT CREW$10,000
PARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION$5,000
FREEDOM 424$5,000
THE AGAPE CENTER$5,000
POSTIVE ALTERNATIVE RADIO$5,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
UNDER THE SON ACADEMY$2,500
ROANOKE VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS$2,500
LIBERTY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$2,500
ONWARD CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%PARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION: $5k → 13%CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT: $10k → 26%Park View Community Mission: $3k → 13%CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT: $5k → 26%CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT: $3k → 26%THE AGAPE CENTER: $5k → 8%THE AGAPE CENTER: $4k → 8%THE AGAPE CENTER: $3k → 8%THE AGAPE CENTER: $3k → 8%THE AGAPE CENTER: $3k → 8%THE AGAPE CENTER: $3k → 8%THE AGAPE CENTER: $3k → 8%THE AGAPE CENTER: $3k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$860k · 13 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
3

Total granted

$860k
$8k

Still filing today

85%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionEducationHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AT
    ALLOW THE CHILDREN INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $400k · revenue +5%
  • LU
    LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $303k · revenue +75%
  • F4
    Freedom 4 24
    9× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • CE
    CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
  • TC
    TEMPLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • HH
    HEALING HEARTS VIETMNAM
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Liberty Christian Academy of Sarasota Inc

The principle approach, the mission of liberty christian academy, is to partner with families and churches in equipping students with biblical worldview framework, knowledge of jesus christ as lord in all areas of life, mindset of a…

Education
2
Champion Christian College Inc

To develop christ-centered servant leaders through a challenging academic environment in order to impact the world for the kingdom of god.

Education
3
Liberty Christian Academy

To provide quality, christ-cenered, biblical-based education and to prepare qualified students for the future without preference to race or national origin.

Education
4
Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry Inc

To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.

—
5
Providence Christian Academy

In dependence upon Almighty God, for His glory alone, and together with family and church, the mission of Providence Christian Academy is to provide exemplary education for the vulnerable in the light of God's Word for time and eternity.

Education
6
Jim King Ministries Inc

Proclaim the gospel of jesus christ

Religion
7
Jesus Ministries International

Promote christian religion through conferences and group meetings.

Religion
8
Cecil & Lisa Paxton Ministries Inc

Christian Teaching and Education

Religion
9
Trinity Christian Academy of Lawton Inc

To operate a private christian school

Education
10
Liberty Christian School Elementary Day School

Private non-denominational christian day school.

Education
11
Christian Academy

Educational - operation of a school

Education
12
Europe Campus Ministry

The Organization is formed for Christian evangelism and discipleship training as afundamentalist, evangelical, and non-denominational faith-based missionorganization. Its mission is to reach out to students with the whole of gospel ofJesus…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Agape Center Corporation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALLOW THE CHILDREN INC: $400,000 · ReligionALLOW THE CHILDREN INCSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $15,000 · Religion+1 more: $5,000 · ReligionLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC: $302,500 · EducationLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC+2 more: $12,500 · EducationAGAPE CENTER CORPORATION INC: $23,750 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesPARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesFreedom 4 24: $28,750 · InternationalGLORY OUTREACH ASSEMBLY - US INC: $10,500 · InternationalTIMBERLAKE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $6,250 · OtherUNDER THE SON ACADEMY: $2,500 · OtherCHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC: $2,500 · OtherTEMPLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $2,500 · OtherLIBERTY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $2,500 · OtherHEALING HEARTS VIETMNAM: $2,500 · OtherROANOKE VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $2,500 · OtherPOSITIVE ALTERNATIVE RADIO INC: $15,750 · Arts & CultureGODS PIT CREW INC: $15,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Religion$420,000Education$315,000Human Services$51,250International$39,250Other$31,250Arts & Culture$15,750Public Safety & Disaster$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALLOW THE CHILDREN INC: $400,000 over 8y, 6.7% of budgetLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC: $302,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFreedom 4 24: $28,750 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetAGAPE CENTER CORPORATION INC: $23,750 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPOSITIVE ALTERNATIVE RADIO INC: $15,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGODS PIT CREW INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLORY OUTREACH ASSEMBLY - US INC: $10,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCAIRN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE POCKET TESTAMENT LEAGUE INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetONWARD CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLIBERTY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 ALLOW THE CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds Freedom 4 24 ↗
  • Who funds AGAPE CENTER CORPORATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds POSITIVE ALTERNATIVE RADIO INC ↗
  • Who funds GODS PIT CREW INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds GLORY OUTREACH ASSEMBLY - US INC ↗
  • Who funds CAIRN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds PARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE POCKET TESTAMENT LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds ONWARD CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds LIBERTY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗

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.

Foster FoundationVA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foster Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization T Sherwin Cook Foundation Xxx-Xx-Xxxx funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from T Sherwin Cook Foundation Xxx-Xx-Xxxx. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to T Sherwin Cook Foundation Xxx-Xx-Xxxx?

    Find your warmest path to T Sherwin Cook Foundation Xxx-Xx-Xxxx 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on T Sherwin Cook Foundation Xxx-Xx-Xxxx’s filings →

    More from the funding graph