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V V Cooke Foundation Corporation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$378k
Granted FY2025still arriving
91
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$518kHuman Services$391kEducation$337kReligion$129kHousing & Shelter$112kFood & Nutrition$81kYouth Development$77kArts & Culture$75kOther$0
02FY2025 · 91 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k80 grants · $239k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $139k
$2,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$7.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
KIDS CENTER FOR PEDIATRIC THERAPIES$10,000
ST JOHN CENTER FOR HOMELESS MEN$10,000
YMCA$10,000
FAMILY COMMUNITY CLINIC$10,000
BEACON HOUSE$10,000
LIGHTHOUSE ACADEMY AT NEWBURG$9,000
GILDA'S CLUB OF KENTUCKIANA$8,000
UP FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN$7,500
FOOD LITERACY PROJECT$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%OPERATION CARE: $1k → 9%PILLAR: $5k → 4%HOME OF THE INNOCENTS: $20k → 15%HOME OF THE INNOCENTS: $15k → 15%HOME OF THE INNOCENTS: $10k → 15%HOME OF THE INNOCENTS: $5k → 15%CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $1k → 15%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $3k → 15%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S PLACE: $8k → 15%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S PLACE: $5k → 15%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S PLACE: $5k → 15%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S PLACE: $5k → 15%CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $3k → 15%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $5k → 15%YMCA OF GREATER LOUISVILLE: $10k → 15%UP FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $8k → 15%UP FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $6k → 15%UP FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $5k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

VT
MN
IL
NY
OH
KY
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 120 repeat orgs$187k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

120
69

Total granted

$1.9M
$153k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+1%

Still filing today

63%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureHousing & ShelterRecreation & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TH
    THE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $61k · revenue +143%
  • DT
    DARE TO CARE INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $49k · revenue +16%
  • WB
    WATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $48k · revenue +239%

Funded once

  • SC
    SUNRISE CHILDREN'S CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • WE
    West End School Incgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +33%
  • UF
    UL FOUNDATION-DR FRIEDLAND
    one grant, 2020 · $13k
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.

1
The Louisville Urban League Inc

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.

Human Services
2
Louisville Collegiate School

Louisville collegiate school inspires academic excellence, extraordinary character and global citizenship.

Education
3
Kentucky Center for Economic Policy Inc

To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.

Public Benefit
4
Day Spring Inc

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…

Human Services
5
Goodwill Industries of Kentucky Inc

Goodwill's mission is to help people with disabilities or other disadvantages achieve and maintain employment to gain a better quality of life.

Employment
6
Thrive By 5 Louisville Inc

Thrive by 5 louisville is making early learning a top priority for louisville, breaking down barriers for the future of our children and city.

Education
7
Independent Living Options Inc

Empowering people with disabilities to live independent lives in the community.

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8
Child Watch Counseling and Advocacy Center Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
9
Endeavor Louisville Inc

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.…

International
10
HealthFirst Bluegrass Inc

Healthfirst provides outpatient primary healthcare, behavioral health and dental services to the underserved and uninsured residents of fayette county and surrounding counties in kentucky.

Health
11
Parks Alliance of Louisville Inc

Drive equitable investment in our public parks to improve the health and wellbeing of the entire community.

Environment
12
Specialized Alternatives for Families & Youth of Kentucky Inc

At safy, our vision is to create thriving families and communities where every individual, regardless of background or circumstance, can reach their full potential.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cabbage Patch Settlement House Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

112 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. 112 of the 204 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
109/112
Grantees still filing
74/112
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION: $200,000 · OtherBAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATIONSUNRISE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $111,500 · OtherSUNRISE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INCST JOHN CENTER FOR HOMELESS MEN: $49,500 · OtherTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $46,000 · OtherTHE MORTON CENTER INC: $45,000 · OtherTHE HEALING PLACE INC: $45,000 · OtherWATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $48,400 · Other+137 more: $798,786 · Other+137 moreGEORGETOWN COLLEGE: $45,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN C…ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $23,000 · EducationALICE LLOYD …TEACH KENTUCKY INC: $21,000 · EducationTEACH KENTUC…I Would Rather Be Reading: $18,500 · EducationI Would Rath…SUMMIT ACADEMY OF GREATER LOUISVILLE INC: $18,000 · EducationSUMMIT ACADE…HEUSER HEARING & LANGUAGE ACADEMY: $16,310 · EducationHEUSER HEARI…Campbellsville University Inc: $15,000 · EducationCampbellsvil…West End School Inc: $15,000 · EducationWest End Sch…BREAKTHROUGH LOUISVILLE INC: $12,800 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH…UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · EducationColumbia College Chicago: $8,000 · Education+10 more: $31,745 · Education+10 moreTHE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC: $60,595 · Human ServicesTHE HOME …FAMILY & CHILDREN'S PLACE INC: $32,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY & …the Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Louisville Inc: $30,500 · Human Servicesthe Young…CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC: $18,500 · Human ServicesCABBAGE P…Uniting Partners for Women and Children: $18,500 · Human ServicesUniting P…NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $9,000 · Human Services+5 more: $11,500 · Human Services+5 moreDown Syndrome of Louisville Inc: $35,500 · HealthFamily Community Clinic Inc: $27,500 · HealthHOUSE OF RUTH INC: $20,500 · HealthBEACON HOUSE AFTERCARE PROGRAM INC: $20,000 · HealthFHGR INC: $19,000 · HealthCerebral Palsy KIDS Center Inc: $17,500 · HealthNAMI LOUISVILLE INC: $7,000 · Health+4 more: $11,500 · HealthDARE TO CARE INC: $49,250 · Food & NutritionThe Food Literacy Project at Oxmoor Farm Inc: $16,750 · Food & NutritionFeed Louisville Inc: $2,500 · Food & Nutrition21ST CENTURY PARKS INC: $40,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE FILSON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $12,000 · Recreation & SportsLOUISVILLE CENTRAL COMMUNITY CENTERINC: $8,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS KENTUCKY INC: $5,500 · Recreation & SportsFUND FOR THE ARTS INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureKENTUCKY PUBLIC RADIO INC: $9,300 · Arts & CultureSPEED ART MUSEUM: $8,500 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureOWSLEY BROWN FRAZIER HISTORICAL ARMS MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureTHE LOUISVILLE LEOPARD PERCUSSIONISTS INC: $2,090 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,344,186Education$236,855Human Services$181,095Health$158,500Food & Nutrition$68,500Recreation & Sports$65,500Arts & Culture$57,390

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSUNRISE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $111,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC: $60,595 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDARE TO CARE INC: $49,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $48,400 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetGEORGETOWN COLLEGE: $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MORTON CENTER INC: $45,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetTHE HEALING PLACE INC: $45,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budget21ST CENTURY PARKS INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE PROMISE INC: $39,300 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetMETRO UNITED WAY INC: $37,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDown Syndrome of Louisville Inc: $35,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN'S PLACE INC: $32,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetthe Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Louisville Inc: $30,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFUND FOR THE ARTS INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFamily Community Clinic Inc: $27,500 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetAMERICANA COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $24,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $23,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCASA OF THE RIVER REGION: $21,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTEACH KENTUCKY INC: $21,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetHOUSE OF RUTH INC: $20,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHARBOR HOUSE OF LOUISVILLE INC: $20,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBEACON HOUSE AFTERCARE PROGRAM INC: $20,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetFHGR INC: $19,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetI Would Rather Be Reading: $18,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC: $18,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetUniting Partners for Women and Children: $18,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSUMMIT ACADEMY OF GREATER LOUISVILLE INC: $18,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWORKWELL INDUSTRIES INC: $17,650 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCerebral Palsy KIDS Center Inc: $17,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPEACE EDUCATION PROGRAM INC: $17,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetThe Food Literacy Project at Oxmoor Farm Inc: $16,750 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetHEUSER HEARING & LANGUAGE ACADEMY: $16,310 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCampbellsville University Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC: $15,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWest End School Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTOKEN III CLUB: $14,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INC: $14,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH LOUISVILLE INC: $12,800 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWELLSPRING INC: $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FILSON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $12,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUSA CARES INC: $11,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY INC: $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHildegard House Incorporated: $11,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetKENTUCKY YOUTH ADVOCATES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBIA CARES INC: $10,000 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetLINCOLN HERITAGE COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKENTUCKY PUBLIC RADIO INC: $9,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • 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 CASA OF THE RIVER REGION ↗
  • Who funds TEACH KENTUCKY INC ↗
  • Who funds HOUSE OF RUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds HARBOR HOUSE OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
  • Who funds BEACON HOUSE AFTERCARE PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds FHGR INC ↗
  • Who funds I Would Rather Be Reading ↗
  • Who funds CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds Uniting Partners for Women and Children ↗
  • 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 ↗

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 Gheens Foundation IncKY150.4× affinity73 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 V V Cooke Foundation Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from V V Cooke Foundation Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Sterling College: 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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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Find your warmest path to V V Cooke Foundation Corporation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 204 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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