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Barton P Cohen & Mary Davidson Cohen Charitable Fund Part Two
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
59% of Barton P Cohen & Mary Davidson Cohen Charitable Fund Part Two’s FY2025 grant dollars went to World Giving Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Barton P Cohen & Mary Davidson Cohen Charitable Fund Part Two named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $391k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of BARTON P & MARY D COHEN CHARITABLE 2’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $386k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KANSAS CITY MUSEUM | $100,000 |
| KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| HYMAN BRAND HEBREW ACADEMY | $75,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $61,000 |
| THE MUSEUM OF PRAIRIE FIRE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KC | $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 (FY19–25, $181k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Barton P Cohen & Mary Davidson Cohen Charitable Fund Part Two’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 78% of the giving stays in KS; read by stated purpose it is 76% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +49% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $154k 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
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES4× · 2019–2025 · $176k · revenue +76%
- MOMUSEUM OF PRAIRIEFIRE FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $150k · revenue +12%
- HBHYMAN BRAND HEBREW ACADEMY2× · 2020–2024 · $76k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- PAPRAIRIEFIRE AMERICAN MUSEUMone grant, 2021 · $150k
- TBTEMPLE BNAI JEHUDAHone grant, 2020 · $100k
- HTHEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -15%
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.
The kansas city museum foundation preserves, interprets, and celebrates kansas city through collections, exhibitions, and bold programs that reflect the city's evolution and spirit, and engage visitors in unfolding stories about kansas…
To sustain and enhance jewish life at home and around the world.
To strengthen the University and communities that have touched the lives of KU alumni and friends, the mission of The KU Endowment Charitable Gift Fund is to receive and administer gifts and bequests to further the charitable objectives of…
To own and operate a museum, curating antiques and collectibles, that provides a gateway to the past that educates, entertains, and inspires lifelong learning
The missouri historical society (mhs) is a missouri pro forma decree, not-for-profit corporation whose primary functions are educational and community programs; collections and conservation; library and research; and exhibitions.…
To protect and preserve lands of natural, ecological, scenic, historic, agricultural, or recreational significance in kansas.
Engaging and aligning providers and stakeholders to establish Kansas as a role model for health care quality and a top performer in health care outcomes.
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
To preserve the legacy and to ensure and advance the prominence of kansas newspapers and the communities they faithfully serve.
Build, strengthen, and preserve jewish identity within the local community, in israel, and around the world through tzedakah, education, and cultural events.
To educate the community and its visitors about local history by collecting, preserving and interpreting materials reflecting the heritage of wichita and sedgwick county
To enhance the life, culture, and community of South Central Kansas by connecting people who care with causes that matter.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humanities Kansas Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Nature Conservancy. 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 40 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 5% 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.
18 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. 18 of the 38 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 JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD GIVING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KANSAS MUSEUMS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FREEDOMS FRONTIER NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF PRAIRIEFIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HYMAN BRAND HEBREW ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds Kansas State Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds SHAWNEE INDIAN MISSION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FLINT HILLS DISCOVERY CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STRAWBERRY HILL ETHNIC CULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANITIES KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds SAFEHOME 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: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · G Kenneth and Ann Baum Philanthropic Fund · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Patricia Werthan Uhlmann Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Gerson Family Foundation · Nerman Family Foundation · V & H Charitable Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation
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 Barton P Cohen & Mary Davidson Cohen Charitable Fund Part Two 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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