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Donald & Elizabeth Cooke Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $155k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Samaritan's Purse | $100,000 |
| Union Pines High School | $35,000 |
| Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities | $15,000 |
| Moore Humane Society | $15,000 |
| North Moore High School | $15,000 |
| PBS North Carolina | $15,000 |
| Campbell University | $10,000 |
| Wake Forest University | $10,000 |
| Duke University | $10,000 |
| North Carolina Zoological Society | $10,000 |
| Friends of the WNC Nature Center | $10,000 |
| Arts Council of Moore County | $10,000 |
| Prancing Horse Inc | $5,000 |
| Boys and Girls Homes of NC | $5,000 |
| The Nature Conservancy | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
22 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE5× · 2020–2024 · $180k · revenue +106%
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $160k · revenue +45%
NORTH CAROLINA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $95k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- VHVillage Heritage Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +159% · 84% of their budget
- CCCARTHAGE CENTURY COMMITTEEone grant, 2020 · $10k
- FBFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF VASSone grant, 2020 · $5k
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 the Davidson Lands Conservancy is to protect local lands and natural resources, connect lives to nature, and promote a conservation ethic. The Conservancy advances its work through four conservation programs or pillars: land…
As a nationally accredited land trust, we conserve and manage land for public benefit in North Carolinas Southern Piedmont. We have conserved 235 properties, totaling 17,786 acres of land. We also facilitate the creation of a 1600 mile…
Public/private collaborative to plant trees, raise awareness of the canopy, and educate about tree care.
To protect land and water, natural open spaces and farmland in the sandhills region of north carolina
Ctnc conserves land in ways that inspire and enable people to build resilient, just communities. we carry out our mission in collaboration with other conservation organizations and the communities we serve. our goal is to lessen the…
To honor, renew, and build community in the historic Northside, Pine Knolls, and Tin-Top neighborhoods of Chapel Hill and Carrboro, NC.
To create a place of lifelong learning where people, from young child to senior citizen, embrace science as a way of knowing about themselves, their community, and their world.
Prior to dissolution on July 8, 2019, CCS sought to improve the health and quality of life of the patients it served by collaborating with patients, health care providers, hospitals, health departments, community partners, and departments…
The mission of the Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust is to safeguard the unique and irreplaceable landscape of our area through conservation of ecologically valuable land and protection of the biodiversity dependent on such landscapes.
Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.
We plant native trees in the Research Triangle region of North Carolina.
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina Zoological Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
23 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. 23 of the 34 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 SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE WALTHOUR - MOSS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOORE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Arts Council of Moore County ↗
- Who funds SANDHILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PENICK VILLAGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS HOMES OF NC INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of the WNC Nature Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Prancing Horse Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Given Tufts Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Village Heritage Foundation ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH OF THE PINES INC ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of the Sandhills INC ↗
- Who funds SANDHILLS CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds THREE RIVERS LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds SANDHILLS-MOORE COALITION FOR HUMAN CARE INC ↗
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: North Carolina Community Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Pinehurst Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Rauch Rainoff Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
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 Donald & Elizabeth Cooke 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.
- Atlantic Center for the Arts Inc — 5% of income from government
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.
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