The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation is a private, independent foundation that supports exceptional students from elementary to graduate school through scholarships, grants, direct academic-advancement services, and knowledge creation and dissemination.
In addition to providing students both counseling and financial support from middle school to graduate school, the Cooke Foundation provides significant grants for noteworthy and innovative initiatives that support high-performing, low-income students.
The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation seeks to end the Excellence Gap, the disparity between the number of low and high income students who reach the top levels of academic performance. Founded in 2000, the Foundation has awarded $250 million in scholarships to 3,200 students and over $125 million in grants.