Delaware · Private foundation
The Roy Cockrum 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.
- $3.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2024
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 78%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $550,400
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $800,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 12
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $47M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 78% of the organizations The Roy Cockrum Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 86% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.4M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 6 | $3.4M | 50% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $4.0M | 78% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $3.3M | 60% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $2.8M | 75% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $1.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Old Globe Theatre | $1,848,800 | 4 | 2% |
| Chicago Theatre Group Inc | $1,500,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Mosaic Theater Company of DC | $1,235,572 | 2 | 25% |
| World Trade Center Performing Arts Center Inc | $1,138,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Adrienne Arsht Center Trust Inc | $1,050,000 | 1 | 3% |
| St Ann's Warehouse Inc | $950,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Manhattan Theatre Club Inc | $900,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art Ltd dba HERE Art Center | $850,000 | 1 | 28% |
| Atlantic Theater Company | $800,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Guthrie Theater Foundation | $788,000 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($538k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Roy Cockrum Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 Shubert Foundation Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Arts Midwest Incorporated · New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · Jkw Foundation Tr Ua 092597 · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc · Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
About The Roy Cockrum Foundation
- How much does The Roy Cockrum Foundation give?
- The Roy Cockrum Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $3,365,700 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 12 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Roy Cockrum Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (95%), Education (4%), Membership Benefit (1%).
- Who are The Roy Cockrum Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Old Globe Theatre ($1.8M), Chicago Theatre Group Inc ($1.5M), Mosaic Theater Company of DC ($1.2M).
- Does The Roy Cockrum Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 78% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Roy Cockrum Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Roy Cockrum Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Shubert Foundation Inc, The Andrew W Mellon Foundation, Arts Midwest Incorporated.
- Where is The Roy Cockrum Foundation based?
- The Roy Cockrum Foundation is based in DE.
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