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William a Cooke Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k78 grants · $205k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $75k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOUISA COUNTY LITTLE LEAGUE | $750,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $351,942 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $25,000 |
| LOUISA COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD | $20,000 |
| LOUISA COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
| ORANGE CO CHILDRENS TOYBOX | $10,000 |
| SANTA COUNCIL OF LOUISA | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| LAKE ANNA EMERGENCY SERVICES | $7,500 |
| LOUISA ARTS CENTER | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,594 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $106k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% 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.
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.
105 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 98 since wound down; 77 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $227k 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
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN7× · 2018–2024 · $175k · revenue +94%- OCORANGE COUNTY CHILDRENS TOY BOX4× · 2020–2023 · $35k · revenue +8%
- LDLouisa Downtown Development Corpora4× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- LCLOUISA COUNTY LITTLE LEAGEone grant, 2017 · $130k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $21k
- MEMOSS-NUCKOLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $20k
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.
Find forever homes and foster homes for animals in Louisa County Virginia and the surrounding area. Promoting spay/neuter programs
Little hands virginia's mission is to ensure young children in need in central virginia have essentials from day one to improve outcomes for life.
Henrico Christmas Mother provides charitable relief for low-income families in Henrico County, Virginia, during the holiday season. Qualifying recipients shop for food, clothing, books, and toys for their families, while seniors and…
Provide food programs such as Food Bank,Emergency Pantry,Meals on Wheels and School Backpack for needy families in Louisa County,Va. Also provide medical outreach and referral services for needy families.
Provides emergency medical care and transportation in Louisa County Virginia and water rescue services for Lake Anna Virginia
Loudoun Serenity House's mission is to provide free, peer-based mentoring, education, and advocacy for individuals and families affected by substance abuse disorder, along with structured transitional housing for men and women rebuilding…
to provide fire response an rescue units to the residents of Halifax county VA and surrounding counties as needed
The Total Life Center of Southside Virginia is organized to improve health outcomes and advance health equity in rural communities by addressing social determinants of health. The organization provides programs that increase access to…
The organization provides educational services to under-educated residents of Madison County Virginia: ELL training, basic literacy, GED preparation, introductions to technology.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Readykids Inc and the most unlike its peers is Adult Community Education Formerly Literacy Volunteers of Lou. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 392 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 SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Love Outreach Food Pantry Inc ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY CHILDRENS TOY BOX ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Louisa Downtown Development Corpora ↗
- Who funds Louisa County Rescue Squad Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILD HEALTH PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds GIVING WORDS INC ↗
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: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Perry Foundation Inc · American Woodmark Foundation Inc · Sentara Health · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 William a Cooke Foundation 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% 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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