· Private foundation
The Judith E & Joseph C Cook Jr Foundation Inc
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $660k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER | $100,000 |
| BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN | $100,000 |
| BELMONT UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| MERCY MINISTRIES | $100,000 |
| SILOAM FAMILY HEALTH CENTER | $100,000 |
| PRAXIS INC | $100,000 |
| REDEEMER CITY TO CITY | $90,000 |
| HOPE INTERNATIONAL | $85,000 |
| MICAH PROJECT | $80,000 |
| REFORMED UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIP | $60,000 |
| UPRISE NASHVILLE | $60,000 |
| CHRIST CHURCH NASHVILLE | $50,000 |
| MISSION INCREASE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CHALMERS CENTER | $50,000 |
| BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOC | $40,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 28% of The Judith E & Joseph C Cook Jr Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 43% of the giving stays in TN; by stated purpose, 32%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +48% for those funded once.
54 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 3 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BMBLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $825k · revenue +329%
- MOMARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $800k · revenue +153%
- SHSILOAM HEALTH6× · 2017–2024 · $625k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- NINASHVILLE INSTITUTE FOR FAITH AND WORKone grant, 2020 · $40k
- MFMIDTOWN FELLOWSHIP CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $30k
- CPCOVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $20k
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.
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.
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.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Lakelight Institute equips Christians with timeless wisdom for modern life.
Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…
The Center of Theological Inquiry is an independent research institution with an international visiting scholar program which convenes researchers in an ideal setting for interdisciplinary inquiries where theology casts light on global…
To contend for the credibility of christian resources in public life, for the public good.
To educate, train, and develop ministers, evangelists, missionaries, and other people who are going to enter the Christian ministry. Educate ministers and missionaries to serve the Lord.
Crossing Cultures International, Inc. exists to glorify God by equipping Christ followers globally with comprehensive training for effective ministry.
Manna University is a biblical higher education institution dedicated to educating, equipping, and empowering emerging leaders to change the world.
Our mission is to multiply the global impact and influence of Christian leaders and pastors throughout their organizations and communities. Our activities involve working with members of the leadership of other exclusively charitable…
Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…
Raise Up Global Ministries is committed to educating Christian leaders in communities around the world. The three programs of Raise Up equip the global church by 1 Developing biblically based interactive materials and 2 Training…
How this is measured
43 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. 43 of the 66 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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- Who funds MARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SILOAM HEALTH ↗
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- Who funds Praxis Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Redeemer City To City ↗
- Who funds ANGEL MINISTRIES ↗
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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: Servant Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · International Generosity Foundation Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Ten Talents Foundation · First Fruit Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Judith E & Joseph C Cook Jr Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Judith E & Joseph C Cook Jr Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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