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The S Leigh Pierson & Douglas R Conant Family Cookie Jar 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.

$119k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2024
16
Organizations funded FY2023
19%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
16 to 25
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
9
Total assets, FY2024
$2.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 19% of the organizations The S Leigh Pierson & Douglas R Conant Family Cookie Jar Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentCivil RightsPhilanthropySocial ScienceEmploymentRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving18$115k17%
FY202316$271k19%
FY202219$220k0%
FY202124$382k17%
FY202025$448k32%
FY201919$296k5%
FY201819$316kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$862kSocial Science$250kRecreation & Sports$186kPublic Benefit$185kEnvironment$111kEducation$79kYouth Development$70kHealth$68kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
RI
CO
VA
AZ
NM
AR
TN
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 28 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($315k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The S Leigh Pierson & Douglas R Conant Family Cookie Jar Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe American Writers Museum: $751,000 over 7y, 6.7% of budgetHigher Ambition Leadership Alliance Inc: $250,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetPartnership for Public Service Inc: $180,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCarter P Brown Legacy Preservation Fund: $110,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetLos Alamos Historical Society Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetIntercollegiate Tennis Association Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetNational Organization on Disability: $35,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGreater Chicago Food Depository: $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Seeing Eye Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetChief Executives for Corporate Purpose Inc: $30,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Tennis Hall of Fame Incorporated: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChicago Foundation for Education: $25,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetOne Acre Fund: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Greater Holland: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetThe Juvenile Justice Initiative Attn Elizabeth Clarke: $11,000 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetAire: $10,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMillicent Rogers Museum Inc: $5,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetRumsfeld Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetThe Newberry Library: $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDays For Girls International: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWomen's Bean Project: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetForgotten Harvest Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Exchange Project Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCora Hartshorn Arboretum & Bird Sanctuary: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSoles4souls Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAsian Americans Advancing Justice - Aajc Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

The Chicago Community TrustIL12.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation 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.

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About The S Leigh Pierson & Douglas R Conant Family Cookie Jar Foundation Inc

How much does The S Leigh Pierson & Douglas R Conant Family Cookie Jar Foundation Inc give?
The S Leigh Pierson & Douglas R Conant Family Cookie Jar Foundation Inc reported 19 grants totaling $118,530 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does The S Leigh Pierson & Douglas R Conant Family Cookie Jar Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (42%), Social Science (12%), Recreation & Sports (9%).
Who are The S Leigh Pierson & Douglas R Conant Family Cookie Jar Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: The American Writers Museum ($751k), Higher Ambition Leadership Alliance Inc ($250k), Partnership for Public Service Inc ($180k).
Does The S Leigh Pierson & Douglas R Conant Family Cookie Jar Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The S Leigh Pierson & Douglas R Conant Family Cookie Jar Foundation Inc 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 S Leigh Pierson & Douglas R Conant Family Cookie Jar Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, National Philanthropic Trust, The Blackbaud Giving Fund.
Where is The S Leigh Pierson & Douglas R Conant Family Cookie Jar Foundation Inc based?
The S Leigh Pierson & Douglas R Conant Family Cookie Jar Foundation Inc is based in IL.

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 39 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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