· Private foundation
Cohen Charitable Foundation 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $4k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| THE WOMEN'S FORUM | $1,250 |
| UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK INC | $1,000 |
| FRICK COLLECTION | $325 |
| THE ELYSABETH KLEINHANS THEATRICAL FOUNDATION | $280 |
| NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC | $250 |
| THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS | $250 |
| NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO | $200 |
| CHANNEL 13 | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–22, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +5% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $730 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DRDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2019–2025 · $256k · revenue +28%
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC7× · 2019–2025 · $7k · revenue +27%
- WFWOMEN'S FORUM INC6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- MTMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +35%
- DRDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE MIAMIone grant, 2022 · $1k
- NUNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INCone grant, 2022 · $750 · revenue +4%
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.
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.
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The economic club of new york is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, nonpolitical organization dedicated to the promotion of the study and discussion of social, economic and political questions. for more than a century, the club has served as the…
Producing and developing plays and musicals.
We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 20 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds CANDLELIGHTERS OF NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds COMPREHENSIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds The Frick Collection ↗
- Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ELYSABETH KLEINHANS THEATRICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ONE LOVE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF YEARDLEY LOVE INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cohen Charitable Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cohen Charitable Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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