· Private foundation
Alice and Phil Cohn Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $204k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $210k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCRIPPS HEALTH FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| WILDFIRE RELIEF FUND | $60,000 |
| MAYO FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $30,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $25,000 |
| LUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| LANAI HIGH AND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $22,000 |
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCHLEROSIS SOCIETY-SAN DIEGO CHAPTER | $20,035 |
| TEMPLE EMANU-EL OF SAN DIEGO | $20,000 |
| PROJECT COMPASSION | $20,000 |
| SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY | $20,000 |
| JUST REMEMBER 88 | $12,000 |
| SAN DIEGO MARITIME MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| FATHER JOE'S VILLAGES | $5,000 |
| SAN MATEO BOY AND GIRL CLUB | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SHSCRIPPS HEALTH9× · 2017–2025 · $875k · revenue +72%
- JCJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK3× · 2018–2020 · $94k · revenue +149%
- BCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC4× · 2017–2021 · $87k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- ICIMPACT CUBEDone grant, 2022 · $70k · revenue -15%
- WOWINGS OF RESCUE INCone grant, 2018 · $56k · revenue +17%
- IFINSTITUTE FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATIONone grant, 2019 · $30k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
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The policy & innovation center's (pic) mission is to unlock the region's potential by cultivating and building partnerships. our niche is to address intractable issues that can only be solved with cross-sector, multi-jurisdictional…
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
Ihds utilizes a dual general and judaic studies curriculum. the judaic studies curriculum emphasizes the fundamentals of hebrew reading, writing and speaking, jewish history, holidays, jewish values, torah, the jewish life cycle, the land…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Sioux City Jewish Cemetery Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 61 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SCRIPPS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT CUBED ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WINGS OF RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO JEWISH ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds FOREVER BALBOA PARK ↗
- Who funds LUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT COMPASSION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH SAN DIEGO INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF OMAHA INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds GARFIELD HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · Leichtag Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · David C Copley Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · The Parker Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Alice and Phil Cohn Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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