Elizabeth Entrikin Cooke Foundation

Analysis

Elizabeth Entrikin Cooke Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Tupelo, MS. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1997, 29 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Elizabeth Entrikin Cooke Foundation reported income of $64k and spending of $62k, spending 97% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $29k to $64k (+118%), an average of +22% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 77%. Over the whole period it spent 84% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Elizabeth Entrikin Cooke Foundation sits at the 31st percentile: it is larger than about 31% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 25th percentile, and in the 26th percentile within MS. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sunshine Nevada Organization ($64k), Hemet Sunset Rotary Inc ($64k) and Ed Banes Memorial Scholarship Fund ($64k).

Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $11k (17% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.2m.