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Bobby & Morton Cohn Family Foundation at a glance

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Bobby & Morton Cohn 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.

$73k
Granted FY2023
7
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
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02Its granteesRead
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01What it funds
0170% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$50kPhilanthropy$23kHuman Services$17kEducation$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$13kReligion$5kCrime & Legal$5kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$0
02FY2023 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $62,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $72,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $10,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k5 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Texas Heart Institute$25,000
Memorial Herman Foundation$20,000
Christus Foundation for Healthcare$5,000
Freedom Mobility Foundation$5,000
Operation Healing Forces$2,500
Operation Healing Forces$2,500
Naples Take a Soilder Fishing$2,500
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

31%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$43k · 3 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against -29% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
11

Total granted

$43k
$57k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
-29%

Still filing today

67%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’21’23
Human ServicesHealthCrime & LegalEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MH
    Memorial Herman Foundation
    2× · 2018–2023 · $23k
  • OH
    OPERATION HEALING FORCES INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $10k · revenue +64%
  • T1
    THE 100 CLUB INC
    2× · 2018–2021 · $10k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • KA
    KNOWLEDGE ARTS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue -29%
  • P(
    PALS (People Against Leigh Syndrome)
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • TF
    The First Tee Naples/Collier
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
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.

03Its field

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.

1
Baylor Research Institute

To improve the care and well being of our community, nationally and internationally, through innovative clinically relevant research that is consistent with the mission, vision and values of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).

Health
2
Texas Heart Medical Group

To provide cutting-edge cardiac care to diagnose, treat, and prevent cardiovascular diseases.

Health
3
Texas Palliative Care

Texas palliative care operates to strengthen and further the goals and purpose of hospice of east texas, a texas non-profit corporation.

Health
4
Tmh Physician Organization

This organization is part of the methodist hospital, doing business as houston methodist hospital, whose mission is: to provide high quality, cost-effective health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve in a spiritual…

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5
Baylor Health Care System Foundation

To foster and support the activities and purposes of Baylor Scott & White Health, to encourage broad-based public support of the health care system and its affiliated institutions, and to advance the medical objectives, including…

Health
6
Scott & White Healthcare Foundation

To foster and support the activities and purposes of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH), to encourage broad-based public support of the healthcare system and its affiliated institutions, and to advance the medical objectives, including…

Health
7
Baylor University Medical Center

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
8
City of Hope National Medical Center

City of Hope National Medical Center's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
9
The Hospice at the Texas Medical Center

The Hospice at the Texas Medical Center holds a freestanding 37 bed inpatient facility in the Texas Medical Center that is operated and managed by Houston Hospice.

Human Services
10
Mhs Physicians of Texas

Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…

Health
11
Memorial Hermann Medical Group

Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…

Health
12
Episcopal Health Foundation

To advance the Kingdom of God with specific focus on human health and well-being, through grants, research and initiatives in support of the mission of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The 100 Club Inc; the most unlike its peers is Naples Take a Soldier Fishing Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Memorial Herman Foundation: $22,500 · OtherMemorial Herman FoundationKNOWLEDGE ARTS FOUNDATION (TEACH): $15,000 · OtherKNOWLEDGE ARTS FOUNDATION (TEACH)PALS (People Against Leigh Syndrome): $10,000 · OtherPALS (People Against Leigh Syndrome)The First Tee Naples/Collier: $5,000 · OtherThe First Tee Naples/CollierHarris County Sheriff's Office Foundation: $5,000 · OtherHarris County Sheriff's Office FoundationGift of Life Program: $5,000 · OtherGift of Life ProgramNaples Take a Soilder Fishing: $2,500 · OtherDuval County Emergency Services: $2,500 · OtherThe Shelter for Abused Women: $2,500 · Other+1 more: $1,000 · OtherTexas Heart Institute: $25,000 · HealthTexas Heart InstituteCHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare: $5,000 · HealthCHRISTUS Foundation for …OPERATION HEALING FORCES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION HEALING…FREEDOM MOBILITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM MOBILITY …THE CENTER FOR PURSUIT: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER FOR PU…NAPLES TAKE A SOLDIER FISHING INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE 100 CLUB INC: $10,000 · Crime & LegalBaylor College of Medicine: $5,000 · Education
Other$71,000Health$30,000Human Services$21,000Crime & Legal$10,000Education$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTexas Heart Institute: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKNOWLEDGE ARTS FOUNDATION (TEACH): $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOPERATION HEALING FORCES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE 100 CLUB INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFREEDOM MOBILITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR PURSUIT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAPLES TAKE A SOLDIER FISHING INC: $1,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budget
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.

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.

Greater Houston Commu…Shell USA Company Fou…Vivian L Smith Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX14.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
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How do I get to Bobby & Morton Cohn Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Bobby & Morton Cohn Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $588k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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