· Private foundation
Betty and Ira Kohn 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $86k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE | $38,400 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND | $15,000 |
| TOURO SYNAGOGUE | $11,770 |
| THE PARK SYNAGOGUE | $11,296 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART | $5,465 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND | $5,000 |
| NEW ORLEANS HISPANIC HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| TULANE UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF LOUISIANA FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| NEW ORLEANS BALLET ASSOCIATION | $2,100 |
| WIBO GIVING | $1,800 |
| THE FASHION COUNCIL OF NEW ORLEANS | $1,150 |
| LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | $1,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $143k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
25 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- JCJEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE9× · 2017–2025 · $133k · revenue +13%
- HTHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE5× · 2017–2021 · $12k · revenue +36%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS INC7× · 2017–2023 · $9k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- BCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -3%
- MOMUSEUM OF THE SOUTHERN JEWISH EXPERIENCEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +39%
- TSTEMPLE SINAIone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
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 mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The jewish endowment foundation of louisiana (jef), chartered in 1967, ensures a secure future and an enduring legacy by serving as an essential resource for jewish and non-jewish philanthropy.
The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…
The mission of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA National Memorial, Inc., doing business as the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, is to preserve, interpret, and share the history of Jewish Americans who have served in…
The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.
The jewish federation of san antonio is the coordinating and convening body dedicated to building the jewish community, nurturing the quality of jewish life, and securing a favorable jewish future in san antonio, israel and worldwide…
The national center for jewish film is a unique, independent nonprofit motion picture archive, distributor, resource center and exhibitor. ncjf's ongoing mission is the collection, preservation and exhibition of films with artistic and…
The purpose of this jewish day school is to uphold jewish traditions, religious, charitable, and philanthrophic activities in the jewish community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service of Greater New Orleans Inc and the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 53 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 52 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 JEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN GREATER NEW ORLEANS SECTION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
- Who funds New Orleans Ballet Association ↗
- Who funds TOURO INFIRMARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE SOUTHERN JEWISH EXPERIENCE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS HISPANIC HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Louisiana Foundation ↗
- Who funds WiBo Giving ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage ↗
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: Goldring Family Foundation · The Usdin-Weil Foundation · Cahn Family Foundation · Woldenberg Foundation · Oscar J Tolmas Charitable Trust · Van Der Linden Family Foundation · Rittenberg Family Foundation · Luther and Zita Templeman Foundation · Louis & Lillian Glazer Family Foundation · Sac Foundation · Robert B and Shirley K Haspel Endowment Fund · Ferber Family of Houma 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 Betty and Ira Kohn Foundation 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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