· Private foundation
Alice and Phil Cohn Family Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k6 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $156k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $230k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCRIPPS HEALTH FOUNDATION | $180,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $50,000 |
| SAN DIEGO JEWISH ACADEMY | $36,000 |
| TEMPLE EMANU-EL OF SAN DIEGO | $31,000 |
| SAN DIEGO MARITIME MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $18,180 |
| LLI FOODS INC | $15,680 |
| SAVE STARLIGHT | $15,000 |
| NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RETIRED REFORM RABBIS | $10,000 |
| PROJECT COMPASSION | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCHLEROSIS SOCIETY-SAN DIEGO CHAPTER | $9,230 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY | $5,100 |
| STARABILITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ARMED SERVICES - YMCA | $4,000 |
| O'NEILL ROTARY CLUB | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2026, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SHSCRIPPS HEALTH10× · 2017–2026 · $1.1M · revenue +82%
- 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 -80%
- WOWINGS OF RESCUE INCone grant, 2018 · $56k · revenue +17%
- IFINSTITUTE FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATIONone grant, 2019 · $30k
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.
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.
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How this is measured
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 66 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds SCRIPPS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO JEWISH ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds IMPACT CUBED ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WINGS OF RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds FOREVER BALBOA PARK ↗
- Who funds PROJECT COMPASSION INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds LUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION ↗
- 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 SAVE STARLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds GARFIELD HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Alice and Phil Cohn Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alice and Phil Cohn Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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