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Alan and Myrna Cohen Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Alan and Myrna Cohen Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$7k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

International$30kEducation$25kHealth$13kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kPhilanthropy$7kArts & Culture$4kCrime & Legal$2kFood & Nutrition$696Other$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$7,200
Median grant
1
States reached
$32k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Shuvu$7,200
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Deerfield Academy: $25k → 14%Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia: $228 → 22%National Multiple Sclerosis Society: $15 → 9%Tunnel 2 Towers Fund: $121 → 11%Tibet Fund: $15k → 17%Shuvu: $7k → 20%American Heart Association: $25 → 14%Feed the Children: $228 → 16%Paralyzed Veterans of America: $25 → 14%Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League: $25 → 11%Shriners Hospital: $228 → 13%Bascom Palmer Eye Institute: $10k → 15%St Jude Children Research Hospital: $228 → 17%Habitat for Humanity: $30 → 22%MDA: $200 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100 → 12%Aspca: $228 → 7%Alzeimers Disease Research: $100 → 8%Veterans of Foreign Wars: $50 → 7%Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia: $209 → 22%Muscular Dystrophy Association: $100 → 9%Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $132 → 11%AMERICAN HEART ASSOC: $25 → 17%FEED THE CHILDREN: $209 → 16%Feeding America: $25 → 14%Society For Preservation of the Great American Son: $4k → 11%Shriners Hospital: $209 → 13%ST JUDE: $209 → 17%Habitat for Humanity: $20 → 22%Muscular Dystrophy Association: $100 → 14%ASPCA GUARDIAN: $209 → 7%CHILDDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $209 → 22%TUNNEL TOWERS: $121 → 11%New York Law Enforcement Foundation: $8k → 17%Feed The Children: $209 → 16%Paralyzed Veterans of America: $25 → 14%MOFFITT CANCER CENTER: $100 → 13%St Jude: $209 → 17%ASPCA: $209 → 7%NEW YORK LAW ENFORCEMENT: $2k → 17%SHRINERS HOSPITAL: $209 → 13%New York Law Enforcement Foundation: $2k → 17%Jewish National Fund: $15k → 17%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $250 → 17%American Cancer Society: $200 → 17%American Cancer Society: $50 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

17%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13k · 13 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
25

Total granted

$13k
$58k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+11%

Still filing today

62%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthInternationalEducationAnimalsFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NY
    NEW YORK LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +133%
  • SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN
    3× · 2021–2023 · $646 · revenue +12%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA
    3× · 2021–2023 · $646 · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +6%
  • TF
    Tibet Fund Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $15k · revenue 0%
  • BP
    Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
3
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
4
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
5
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…

Health
6
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
7
New York Society for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled Maintaining the

The mission of hospital for special surgery is to provide the highest quality patient care, improve mobility, and enhance the quality of life for all and to advance the science of orthopedic surgery, rheumatology, and their related…

Health
8
Brightfocus Foundation

Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…

Health
9
Researchamerica

2025 was a turbulent year for the medical and health research community, but our commitment to advocating for science never wavered. from pushing back against funding threats to elevating researchers' voices and equipping advocates, we…

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10
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
11
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
12
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc; the most unlike its peers is Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
15/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $15,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH …Tibet Fund Inc: $15,000 · InternationalTibet Fund Inc+2 more: $851 · InternationalBascom Palmer Eye Institute: $10,000 · OtherBascom Palmer Eye InstituteNEW YORK LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDATION: $9,600 · OtherNEW YORK LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDATIO…Society For Preservation of the Great American Son: $4,000 · OtherSociety For Preservation of the Gr…NEW YORK LAW ENFORCEMENT: $2,000 · OtherNEW YORK LAW ENFORCEMENT+19 more: $3,046 · Other+19 moreTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $25,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY+1 more: $132 · EducationSHUVU RETURN INC: $7,200 · PhilanthropySHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $646 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $646 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $228 · HealthMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $200 · Health+4 more: $140 · HealthPeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc: $25 · AnimalsFeeding America: $25 · Food & Nutrition
International$30,851Other$28,646Education$25,132Philanthropy$7,200Health$1,860Animals$25Food & Nutrition$25

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTibet Fund Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDATION: $9,600 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $646 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $646 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $646 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $228 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $205 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $132 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $50 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $50 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc: $25 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $25 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALS Network: $25 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $15 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Alan and Myrna Cohen Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alan and Myrna Cohen Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Alan and Myrna Cohen Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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