Jack Kent Cooke Foundation

The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation is a private, independent foundation that supports exceptional students from elementary to graduate school through scholarships, grants, direct service, and knowledge creation and dissemination. 

By offering the largest scholarships in the country, in-depth academic counseling and other direct services, the Cooke Foundation seeks to help high-performing, low-income students to develop their talents and excel educationally.

Cooke Scholars are selected from a national pool using such factors as exemplary academic achievement, financial need, grit, determination and social commitment.

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.