North Carolina · Private foundation
The Kooken Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $37k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 71%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $996k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 71% of the organizations The Kooken Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 63% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $37k | 53% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $41k | 71% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $36k | 83% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $39k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $37k | 79% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $29k | 73% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $31k | 64% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $29k | 83% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Piedmont Environmental Alliance Inc | $15,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Cancer Services Inc | $12,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Arts For Life | $12,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The Dwelling | $11,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Southern Environmental Law Center | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Kaleideum | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| State Employees' Credit Union | $6,500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Sawtooth School for Visual Art | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| North Carolina Outward Bound School | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pivot Ministry Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 2% |
Show all 47 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($97k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Kooken Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: The Winston-Salem Foundation · Reynolds American Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Ta John W and Anna H Hanes Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · James G Hanes Memorial Fund · The Lovett Foundation · Forsyth Memorial Hospital Inc · Strickland Family Foundation Cynthia a S Graham · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About The Kooken Family Foundation
- How much does The Kooken Family Foundation give?
- The Kooken Family Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $37,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Kooken Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (18%), Human Services (13%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are The Kooken Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Piedmont Environmental Alliance Inc ($15k), Cancer Services Inc ($12k), Arts For Life ($12k).
- Does The Kooken Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 71% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Kooken Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Kooken Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Winston-Salem Foundation, Reynolds American Foundation, Triangle Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Kooken Family Foundation based?
- The Kooken Family Foundation is based in NC.
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