Maryland · Private foundation
Ben & Zelda Cohen Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $120k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2026
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 75%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 15
- FY2019 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 1
- Total assets, FY2026
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 75% of the organizations Ben & Zelda Cohen Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 96% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $240k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 3 | $120k | 67% |
| FY2025 | 4 | $250k | 75% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $10k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $285k | 60% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $508k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $38k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $449k | 36% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $928k | 47% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2026.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of the Ethiopian National Project Inc | $125,000 | 2 | 43% |
| Yeshivat Mekor Chaim Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Yeshivas Toras Simcha Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ateres Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Jewels School Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Mmha Service Training Academy Inc | $70,000 | 7 | 6% |
| Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore City | $60,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Momentum Unlimited Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 24 grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ben & Zelda Cohen Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Crane Family Foundation Inc · David & Barbara B Hirschhorn Foundation Inc · Richard & Rosalee C Davison Foundation Inc · The Philip and Harriet Klein Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
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About Ben & Zelda Cohen Charitable Foundation Inc
- How much does Ben & Zelda Cohen Charitable Foundation Inc give?
- Ben & Zelda Cohen Charitable Foundation Inc reported 3 grants totaling $120,000 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 15 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
- What does Ben & Zelda Cohen Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2026, its largest causes are Religion (47%), Education (24%), Health (19%).
- Who are Ben & Zelda Cohen Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2026: Friends of the Ethiopian National Project Inc ($125k), Yeshivat Mekor Chaim Inc ($100k), Yeshivas Toras Simcha Inc ($100k).
- Does Ben & Zelda Cohen Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ben & Zelda Cohen Charitable Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ben & Zelda Cohen Charitable Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore, Baltimore Community Foundation Inc, T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Ben & Zelda Cohen Charitable Foundation Inc based?
- Ben & Zelda Cohen Charitable Foundation Inc is based in MD.
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