Kentucky · Private foundation
V V Cooke Foundation Corporation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $378k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 91
- Grants FY2025
- 87
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 81 to 100
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations V V Cooke Foundation Corporation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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 | 91 | $378k | 16% |
| FY2024 | 87 | $424k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 100 | $424k | 28% |
| FY2022 | 81 | $306k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 99 | $285k | 39% |
| FY2020 | 91 | $296k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunrise Children's Services Inc | $111,500 | 6 | 0% |
| The Home of the Innocents Inc | $60,595 | 6 | 0% |
| Dare to Care Inc | $49,250 | 5 | 0% |
| Waterfront Botanical Gardens Inc | $48,400 | 6 | 0% |
| Georgetown College | $45,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Morton Center Inc | $45,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Healing Place Inc | $45,000 | 5 | 0% |
| 21st Century Parks Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Lighthouse Promise Inc | $39,300 | 5 | 3% |
| Metro United Way Inc | $37,500 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 119 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 85 recipients with no EIN on record ($668k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget V V Cooke Foundation Corporation 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 Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · Lift a Life Foundation Inc · Wood & Marie Hannah Foundation
How this is measured
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About V V Cooke Foundation Corporation
- How much does V V Cooke Foundation Corporation give?
- V V Cooke Foundation Corporation reported 91 grants totaling $377,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 81 and 100 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does V V Cooke Foundation Corporation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (25%), Human Services (19%), Education (16%).
- Who are V V Cooke Foundation Corporation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Sunrise Children's Services Inc ($112k), The Home of the Innocents Inc ($61k), Dare to Care Inc ($49k).
- Does V V Cooke Foundation Corporation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does V V Cooke Foundation Corporation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as V V Cooke Foundation Corporation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Gheens Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc.
- Where is V V Cooke Foundation Corporation based?
- V V Cooke Foundation Corporation is based in KY.
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