V V Cooke Foundation Corporation
Private foundation · Louisville, KY · EIN 61-6033714 · reported 2023–2025
278grants reported
$2,500median award
$1,000lower quartile
$250smallest grant
$1.2Mtotal paid
14states reached
3years giving
This foundation funds faith-based organizations. 19 of its 278 reported grants went to churches, ministries or other religious organizations, $167K in total. That is what it paid, not what it says in a policy.
Gives every year. This foundation reported grants in 2023, 2024, 2025. A funder that shows up year after year is worth a letter even if this year is a no.
Where to write
PO Box 7664
Louisville, KY 40257-0664
Address as registered with the IRS. Most foundations this size have no website and no application form, which is not a dead end: a short letter to this address is the whole process, and almost nobody sends one.
Who they funded
| Recipient and stated purpose | Where | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Baptist Health Foundation | Louisville, KY | $100,000 |
| Sunrise Children's Services | Mount Washington, KY | $30,000 |
| Parklands of Floyds Fork | Louisville, KY | $25,000 |
| Baptist Health Foundation | Louisville, KY | $25,000 |
| The Library Foundation | Louisville, KY | $25,000 |
| Down Syndrome of Louisville | Louisville, KY | $20,000 |
| Home of the Innocents | Louisville, KY | $20,000 |
| Lighthouse Academy at Newburg | Louisville, KY | $18,000 |
| St John Center for Homeless Men | Louisville, KY | $16,500 |
| Sunrise Children's Services | Mount Washington, KY | $15,000 |
| Sunrise Children's Services | Mount Washington, KY | $15,000 |
| Home of the Innocents | Louisville, KY | $15,000 |
| West End School | Louisville, KY | $15,000 |
| Dare to Care | Louisville, KY | $13,250 |
| Dare to Care | Louisville, KY | $13,000 |
| Waterfront Botanical Gardens | Louisville, KY | $12,000 |
| Waterfront Botanical Gardens | Louisville, KY | $11,000 |
| The Healing Place | Louisville, KY | $11,000 |
| Dare to Care | Louisville, KY | $10,250 |
| Beacon House | Louisville, KY | $10,000 |
| Family Community Clinic | Louisville, KY | $10,000 |
| Kids Center for Pediatric Therapies | Louisville, KY | $10,000 |
| St John Center for Homeless Men | Louisville, KY | $10,000 |
| The Morton Center | Louisville, KY | $10,000 |
| YMCA | Louisville, KY | $10,000 |
| Home of the Innocents | Louisville, KY | $10,000 |
| St John Center for Homeless Men | Louisville, KY | $10,000 |
| Down Syndrome of Louisville | Louisville, KY | $10,000 |
| Family Community Clinic | Louisville, KY | $10,000 |
| Georgetown College | Georgetown, KY | $10,000 |
| The Morton Center | Louisville, KY | $10,000 |
| Waterfront Botanical Gardens | Louisville, KY | $10,000 |
| YMCA | Louisville, KY | $10,000 |
| Lighthouse Academy at Newburg | Louisville, KY | $9,000 |
| Gilda's Club of Kentuckiana | Louisville, KY | $8,000 |
| Food Literacy Project | Louisville, KY | $7,500 |
| Metro United Way | Louisville, KY | $7,500 |
| UP for Women and Children | Louisville, KY | $7,500 |
| Family Community Clinic | Louisville, KY | $7,500 |
| Metro United Way | Louisville, KY | $7,500 |
| The Morton Center | Louisville, KY | $7,500 |
| Family & Children's Place | Louisville, KY | $7,500 |
| Metro United Way | Louisville, KY | $7,500 |
| University Christian Church | Cincinnati, OH | $7,200 |
| Americana World Community Center | Louisville, KY | $7,000 |
| Heuser Hearing and Language Academy | Louisville, KY | $6,860 |
| Hope Rescued | Louisville, KY | $6,500 |
| Beacon House | Louisville, KY | $6,500 |
| Lighthouse Academy at Newburg | Louisville, KY | $6,300 |
| Heuser Hearing Institute | Louisville, KY | $6,000 |
| Louisville Zoo | Louisville, KY | $6,000 |
| Ronald McDonald House | Louisville, KY | $6,000 |
| UP for Women and Children | Louisville, KY | $6,000 |
| St Francis Episcopal Church | Harrods Creek, KY | $5,500 |
| I Would Rather BE Reading | Louisville, KY | $5,500 |
| I Would Rather BE Reading | Louisville, KY | $5,500 |
| Alice Lloyd College | Pippa Passes, KY | $5,000 |
| American Printing House for the Blind | Louisville, KY | $5,000 |
| Change Today Change Tomorrow | Louisville, KY | $5,000 |
| Family & Children's Place | Louisville, KY | $5,000 |
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