· Private foundation
V V Cooke Foundation Corporation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k80 grants · $239k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $139k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOME OF THE INNOCENTS | $20,000 |
| DOWN SYNDROME OF LOUISVILLE | $20,000 |
| SUNRISE CHILDREN'S SERVICES | $15,000 |
| DARE TO CARE | $13,000 |
| WATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS | $11,000 |
| THE MORTON CENTER | $10,000 |
| FAMILY COMMUNITY CLINIC | $10,000 |
| YMCA | $10,000 |
| BEACON HOUSE | $10,000 |
| ST JOHN CENTER FOR HOMELESS MEN | $10,000 |
| KIDS CENTER FOR PEDIATRIC THERAPIES | $10,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE ACADEMY AT NEWBURG | $9,000 |
| GILDA'S CLUB OF KENTUCKIANA | $8,000 |
| METRO UNITED WAY | $7,500 |
| FOOD LITERACY PROJECT | $7,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $118k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
120 repeat relationships — 76 still active in FY2025, 44 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- THTHE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $61k · revenue +143%
- DTDARE TO CARE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $49k · revenue +16%
- WBWATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $48k · revenue +239%
Funded once
- SCSUNRISE CHILDREN'S CENTERone grant, 2021 · $15k
- WEWest End School Incgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +33%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue +13%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
As an active partner, leader and catalyst, we will assist african americans, other minority groups and the disadvantaged attain social and economic equality and stability through direct services and advocacy.
Louisville collegiate school inspires academic excellence, extraordinary character and global citizenship.
To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
Day spring provides a path forward for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities through services that cultivate hope, belonging, and community.we envision every person being valued and having a path forward regardless of…
Goodwill's mission is to help people with disabilities or other disadvantages achieve and maintain employment to gain a better quality of life.
Thrive by 5 louisville is making early learning a top priority for louisville, breaking down barriers for the future of our children and city.
Empowering people with disabilities to live independent lives in the community.
To provide families in western kentucky with education, advocacy and treatment that prevents child abuse, encourages family stability, promotes healthy relationships, enhances well-being and cultivates safe, nurturing families.
Endeavor Louisville is leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio, catalyzing long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and supporting the best high-impact entrepreneurs in our region.…
Healthfirst provides outpatient primary healthcare, behavioral health and dental services to the underserved and uninsured residents of fayette county and surrounding counties in kentucky.
Drive equitable investment in our public parks to improve the health and wellbeing of the entire community.
At safy, our vision is to create thriving families and communities where every individual, regardless of background or circumstance, can reach their full potential.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cabbage Patch Settlement House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
112 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 112 of the 204 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SUNRISE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC ↗
- Who funds DARE TO CARE INC ↗
- Who funds WATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE MORTON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE HEALING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds 21ST CENTURY PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds METRO UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds Down Syndrome of Louisville Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds the Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Louisville Inc ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Family Community Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICANA COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TEACH KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE RIVER REGION ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF RUTH INC ↗
- Who funds BEACON HOUSE AFTERCARE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds HARBOR HOUSE OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds FHGR INC ↗
- Who funds Uniting Partners for Women and Children ↗
- Who funds I Would Rather Be Reading ↗
- Who funds CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT ACADEMY OF GREATER LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds WORKWELL INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Cerebral Palsy KIDS Center Inc ↗
- Who funds PEACE EDUCATION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds The Food Literacy Project at Oxmoor Farm Inc ↗
- Who funds HEUSER HEARING & LANGUAGE ACADEMY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization V V Cooke Foundation Corporation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Sterling College — 10% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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