· Private foundation
Barry & Myra Cohen 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEMPLE BETH EL | $7,500 |
| JAFCO | $5,550 |
| SWEET DREAM MAKERS | $2,000 |
| PAN MASS CHALLENGE | $250 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL LEAGUE | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $210 |
| PAPS CORP | $122 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $100 |
| NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY | $35 |
| TEMPLE BETH AM | $25 |
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 (FY20–20, $300) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +55% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SDSweet Dream Makers Inc5× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +113%
PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $2k · revenue +49%- CHChildren's Hospital Corporation3× · 2020–2024 · $2k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- TBTEMPLE BETH ELone grant, 2020 · $3k
- UJUNITED JEWISH COUNCILone grant, 2022 · $600
- MJMETROPOLITAN JEWISH HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $338 · revenue 0%
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.
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.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
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.
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…
To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.
The adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 53 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 Sweet Dream Makers Inc ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LEAGUE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN JEWISH HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JDH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA'S CHILDREN FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL POVERTY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
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- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds FBI AGENTS ASSOCIATION MEMORIAL COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Barry & Myra Cohen Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Barry & Myra Cohen Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Gulfstream Goodwill Industries Inc: 27% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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