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.

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

The S Leigh Pierson & Douglas R Conant Family Cookie Jar Foundation Inc at a glance

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

Q: 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%).

Q: 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).

Q: 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.

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 FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$30k

Largest

01What it funds

0193% 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

02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k15 grants · $44k
$10k–50k4 grants · $75k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.6M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY - MEN'S TENNIS	$30,000
AMERICAN WRITER'S MUSEUM	$25,000
TODD MARTIN YOUTH LEADERSHIP	$10,000
HOPE REPERTORY THEATRE	$10,000
CHIEF EXECUTIVES FOR CORPORATE PURPOSE	$6,000
JUVENILE JUSTICE INITIATIVE	$6,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER HOLLAND	$5,000
PARTNERSHIP FOR PUBLIC SERVICE	$5,000
AGRICULTURE IMPLEMENTATION RESEARCH & EDUCATION	$5,000
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY	$5,000
PARK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$4,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN	$1,500
THE MAGIC YARN PROJECT	$1,030
FORGOTTEN HARVEST	$1,000
MILLICENT ROGERS MUSEUM	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.9M · 29 repeat orgs$118k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against -9% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.9M

$116k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%

-9%

Still filing today

69%

83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Food & NutritionInternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsEducationOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

PF
PARTNERSHIP FOR PUBLIC SERVICE INC
3× · 2020–2024 · $180k · revenue +10%
LA
LOS ALAMOS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
2× · 2018–2019 · $50k · revenue +38%
NO
NATIONAL ORGANIZATION ON DISABILITY
4× · 2019–2022 · $35k · revenue +16%

Funded once

MF
MARCH FOURTH 2K
one grant, 2023 · $84k
IT
INTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME INCORPORATEDgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +71%
RF
RUMSFELD FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -9%

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.

04Its field

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.

American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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Museum of American Finance

Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…

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National Association of Corporate Directors

We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.

Public Benefit

American Culinary Federation Education Foundation Inc

To provide for education, scholarships and other charitable purposes related to the culinary profession

—

World Coffee Research

World coffee research unites the global coffee industry to drive science-based agricultural solutions to urgently secure a diverse and sustainable supply of quality coffee today and for generations to come. our mission is to grow, protect,…

International

Jewelers of America Inc

Jewelers of america, the most trusted and influential voice of the jewelry industry, empowers and unites its members through expert guidance and advocacy, driving excellence, integrity, and success in an ever-changing marketplace.

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The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education

American Culinary Federation Inc

Promoting excellence, education, professionalism and collegiality in the culinary profession

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American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit

Detroit Historical Society

The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.

Arts & Culture

Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture

Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The American Exchange Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rumsfeld Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 39 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

28/28

Grantees still filing

16/28

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$756,000Other$648,530Social Science$250,000Employment$181,500Environment$110,500Recreation & Sports$65,000Philanthropy$47,000

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The S Leigh Pierson & Douglas R Conant Family Cookie Jar Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The S Leigh Pierson & Douglas R Conant Family Cookie Jar Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home