Vermont · Private foundation
Ben Cohen Charitable Trust
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.
- $3k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2021
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2021
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 21
- FY2017 to FY2021
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $406k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2021, 50% of the organizations Ben Cohen Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 1 | $3k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $620k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $241k | 52% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $335k | 70% |
| FY2017 | 16 | $274k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| People Power Initiatives Inc | $965,600 | 4 | 94% |
| Public Assets Institute Inc | $80,250 | 2 | 15% |
| Urban Affairs Coalition | $70,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Randolph Bourne Institute Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Investigative Reporters & Editors Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Resources for Human Development Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Changing Perspectives | $11,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Greenpeace Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| People's Action Institute | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Beautiful Trouble Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
Show all 32 grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($205k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ben Cohen Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 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: The Vermont Community Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · George W Mergens Foundation · The Windham Foundation Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
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About Ben Cohen Charitable Trust
- How much does Ben Cohen Charitable Trust give?
- Ben Cohen Charitable Trust reported 1 grants totaling $3,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
- What does Ben Cohen Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (84%), Civil Rights (12%), Public Benefit (1%).
- Who are Ben Cohen Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: People Power Initiatives Inc ($966k), Public Assets Institute Inc ($80k), Urban Affairs Coalition ($70k).
- Does Ben Cohen Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2021, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ben Cohen Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ben Cohen Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Vermont Community Foundation, Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc, George W Mergens Foundation.
- Where is Ben Cohen Charitable Trust based?
- Ben Cohen Charitable Trust is based in VT.
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