· Private foundation
V V Cooke Foundation Corporation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
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
How this is measured
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%
- UFUL FOUNDATION-DR FRIEDLANDone 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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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
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.
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How this is measured
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.
- Sterling College: 10% of income from government
How this is measured
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