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Cohen Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it funds
0144% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$52kHealth$2kEducation$1kPhilanthropy$1kHuman Services$1kCivil Rights$886Other$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$99k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$5,000
THE INTOWN CHABAD$1,069
02The need
03

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ZICHRON TZVI ELIMELECH: $1k → 13%DONORS CHOOSE: $500 → 17%CHABAD OF FRISCO: $1k → 5%LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $500 → 14%HCM ASSOCIATION: $1k → 4%CHABAD OF DALLAS: $13k → 5%LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $500 → 14%CHABAD OF DALLAS: $13k → 5%DALLAS HOLOCAUST & HUMAN RIGHTS: $886 → 14%LEVINE ACADEMY: $784 → 5%CHABAD OF UPTOWN: $12k → 14%LEVINE ACADEMY: $150 → 5%CHABAD OF UPTOWN: $12k → 14%CONGREGATION ASHAI: $13k → 5%CHABAD OF UPTOWN: $11k → 14%CONGREGATION ANSHAI: $4k → 5%CHABAD OF UPTOWN: $9k → 14%CONGREGATION ANSHAI: $1k → 5%THE INTOWN CHABAD: $1k → 14%TEMPLE BETH EL BINAH: $6k → 14%JEWISH FEDERATION: $1k → 14%PARISH EPISCOPAL: $12k → 14%PARISH EPISCOPAL: $12k → 14%PARISH EPISCOPAL: $8k → 14%PARISH EPISCOPAL: $5k → 14%PARISH EPISCOPAL: $5k → 14%PARISH EPISCOPAL: $2k → 14%PARISH EPISCOPAL: $820 → 14%NTX GIVING DAY: $4k → 14%NTX GIVING DAY: $3k → 14%NTX GIVING DAY: $3k → 14%NTX GIVING DAY: $2k → 14%VARIOUS CHARITIES: $355 → 14%VARIOUS CHARITIES: $200 → 14%PARK CITIES BAPTIST: $150 → 14%VARIOUS CHARITIES: $100 → 14%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.
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$134k · 8 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +145% since the first grant, against +137% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
8

Total granted

$134k
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+145%
+137%

Still filing today

13%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    7× · 2017–2024 · $46k
  • CO
    CHABAD OF UPTOWN
    4× · 2019–2022 · $44k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2017–2018 · $26k

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $13k
  • TB
    TEMPLE BETH EL BINAH
    one grant, 2021 · $6k
  • HA
    HCM ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
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
04the grantee network

4 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. 4 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/4
Grantees still filing
4/4
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $45,620 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHABAD OF UPTOWN: $44,000 · OtherCHABAD OF UPTOWNIndividual grant recipient: $26,270 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $12,625 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $10,800 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTEMPLE BETH EL BINAH: $6,045 · Other+10 more: $12,893 · Other+10 moreThe Conservative Jewish Day School of Dallas Inc: $934 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEORG: $500 · Education
Other$158,253Education$1,434

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJewish Federation of Greater Houston: $1,030 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZICHRON TZVI ELIMELECH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Conservative Jewish Day School of Dallas Inc: $934 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Jewish Federation of Greater Houston ↗
  • Who funds ZICHRON TZVI ELIMELECH ↗
  • Who funds The Conservative Jewish Day School of Dallas Inc ↗
  • Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cohen Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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