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Cohen & Company Community Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$325k
Granted FY2025still arriving
61
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Animals$114kArts & Culture$104kHealth$83kHuman Services$75kPublic Benefit$43kReligion$40kPhilanthropy$39kEducation$35kOther$0
02FY2025 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k54 grants · $190k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLEVELAND GUARDIANS CHARITIES INC$50,000
CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$25,000
BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND$15,454
JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND$15,000
THE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND$10,000
TEAM NEO FOUNDATION$10,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC$10,000
LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND$5,000
GREATER CLEVELAND SPORTS COMMISSION$5,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC$5,000
MALTZ MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE$5,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC$5,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO$5,000
HOPE FOR THE DAY$5,000
THE TEACHERS DESK$5,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%GIRLS INC OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $1k → 11%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 8%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $2k → 21%SECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 17%INSPIRING MINDS OF YOUNGSTOWN INC: $5k → 19%THE TEACHERS DESK: $5k → 13%THE CHILDRENS CENTER OF WAYNE COUNTY INC: $2k → 21%VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC: $3k → 13%GRACE HOUSE AKRON INC: $5k → 13%WELCOME HOUSE INC: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CO
MD
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

43%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$259k · 11 repeat orgs$341k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 55 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
17

Total granted

$259k
$96k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+7%

Still filing today

73%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $245k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CZ
    CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
    7× · 2017–2025 · $108k · revenue +72%
  • TR
    THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $43k · revenue +77%
  • TC
    THE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND
    4× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • PS
    Playhouse Square Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue -6%
  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +1%
  • AC
    ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDRENgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +43%
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.

04Its 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
The Cleveland Foundation

Enhance the lives of all residents of greater cleveland, now and for generations to come, by working together with our donors to build community endowment, address needs through grantmaking, and provide leadership on key community issues.

Philanthropy
2
Global Cleveland

Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.

Human Services
3
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Cleveland

Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

Youth Development
4
Ohio Business Roundtable

To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.

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5
Greater Cleveland Volunteers

Greater cleveland volunteers enriches the community and indivuduals through volunteer service. volunteers age 18 and older are recruited and placed in the agency's programs or referred to local nonprofit or public organizations to help…

Philanthropy
6
Philanthropy Ohio

To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.

Philanthropy
7
Cleveland Leadership Center

The mission of cleveland leadership center (the organization) is to build a continuum of civic leaders committed to our community's excellence by serving as a catalyst for civic engagement. the organization achieves its mission by…

Education
8
Ohio Life Sciences Foundation

The mission of ohio life sciences foundation is to accelerate bioscience discovery, innovation and commercialization of global value, driving economic growth, company attraction, improving workforce training and improved quality of life in…

Health
9
Hope for Cleveland's Children
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10
Leadership Akron

The mission of leadership akron is to inspire, strengthen, and empower leaders. our purpose is to unlock the potential of leaders and serve as a catalyst that drives them to create a greater akron.

Education
11
The University of Toledo Foundation

The mission of the university of toledo foundation is to secure the future for the university of toledo, through prudent asset management and philanthropy. we build strong linkages between alumni and the university, fostering a spirit of…

Education
12
Digitalc

Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Greater Cleveland; the most unlike its peers is The Union Home Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

72 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. 72 of the 85 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/72
Grantees still filing
32/72
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLEVELAND GUARDIANS CHARITIES INC: $50,000 · OtherCLEVELAND GUARDIANS CHARITIES INCGROSSE POINTE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherLUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRY: $25,000 · OtherLUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRYTeam NEO Foundation: $10,000 · Other+33 more: $110,900 · Other+33 moreCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $107,500 · AnimalsCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL…+4 more: $6,100 · Animals+4 moreTHE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC: $43,400 · Arts & CultureTHE ROCK AND ROL…Playhouse Square Foundation: $30,000 · Arts & CulturePlayhouse Square…The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage: $9,000 · Arts & CultureThe Maltz Museum…OHIO & ERIE CANALWAY COALITION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureOHIO & ERIE CANA…OH WOW THE ROGER & GLORIA JONES CHILDREN'S CENTER FOR SCIENCE & TECH: $4,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND: $40,000 · EducationTHE CITY C…LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationLORAIN COU…THE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $5,000 · EducationTHE OHIO F…CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationCLEVELAND …BREAKTHROUGH PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $2,500 · EducationCLEVELAND KIDS' BOOK BANK: $2,500 · EducationST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $11,000 · HealthST JUDE CH…Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries: $5,000 · HealthDetroit Re…The Against Malaria Foundation: $5,000 · HealthThe Agains…NAMI LAKE COUNTY OH: $5,000 · HealthNAMI LAKE …HOPE FOR THE DAY: $5,000 · HealthHOPE FOR T…American Heart Association Inc: $5,000 · HealthAmerican H…BELLEFAIRE JEWISH CHILDREN'S BUREAU: $5,000 · HealthBELLEFAIRE…AUTISM SPEAKS INC: $5,000 · HealthAUTISM SPE…LAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · HealthLAKE HOSPI…HITCHCOCK CENTER FOR WOMEN INC: $3,000 · HealthTRANSPLANT HOUSE OF CLEVELAND: $2,500 · HealthARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · HealthCOVENANT HOUSE: $10,000 · Human ServicesPINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Human ServicesWELCOME HOUSE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesGRACE HOUSE AKRON INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE TEACHERS DESK INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesInspiring Minds of Youngstown Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesSECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesVICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesPOPE FRANCIS CENTER: $2,000 · Human ServicesCHILDRENS CENTER OF WAYNE COUNTY INC: $2,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND: $15,454 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $15,000 · PhilanthropyI LOVE YOU MORE THE MICHAEL TRELLA FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyNORTH HILLS AFFORDABLE HOUSING INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UNITED WAY OF YOUNGSTOWN AND THE MAHONING VALLEY: $2,500 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$205,900Animals$113,600Arts & Culture$92,400Education$60,000Health$59,000Human Services$50,000Philanthropy$48,954

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $107,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCLEVELAND GUARDIANS CHARITIES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTHE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC: $43,400 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND: $40,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetPlayhouse Square Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRY: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage: $9,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDetroit Rescue Mission Ministries: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Against Malaria Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOVIATT HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetNAMI LAKE COUNTY OH: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCONNECTING FOR KIDS OF WESTLAKE OH: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWELCOME HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE HOUSE AKRON INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOHIO & ERIE CANALWAY COALITION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH HILLS AFFORDABLE HOUSING INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TEACHERS DESK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBELLEFAIRE JEWISH CHILDREN'S BUREAU: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHITCHCOCK CENTER FOR WOMEN INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S RECOVERY CENTER: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRANSPLANT HOUSE OF CLEVELAND: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSteak Club Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetYOUNGSTOWN WARREN REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOPEN DOORS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF YOUNGSTOWN AND THE MAHONING VALLEY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOPE FRANCIS CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDRENS CENTER OF WAYNE COUNTY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY HALL FOUNDATION INC DBA AKRON CIVIC THEATRE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFUCHS MIZRACHI SCHOOLS: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMALL MIRACLES CAT AND DOG RESCUE INC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONE OF A KIND PET RESCUE INC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Akron Musical Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Burton D Morgan Found…The Swagelok Foundati…Synthomer Foundation …The Char and Chuck Fo…Dominion Energy Chari…The Cleveland Foundat…Firstenergy FoundationThe Welty Family Foun…Northern Ohio Golf Ch…Community West Founda…The Nord Family Found…Akron Community Found…
Burton D Morgan Foundation IncOH27.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc · The Swagelok Foundation · Synthomer Foundation Inc · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · The Welty Family Foundation · Northern Ohio Golf Charities Foundation Inc · Community West Foundation · The Nord Family Foundation · Akron Community 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Cohen & Company Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cohen & Company Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to Cohen & Company Community 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 85 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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