Skip to content

Ohio · Public charity

Ellen E & Victor J Cohn Supporting Foundation

Further the charitable, educational, and religious purposes of the jewish federation of cleveland ("federation").

$244k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
11
Itemized grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
22%
First-time grantees FY2024
Read the full brief
Itemized, FY2025
$189k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$34,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 10
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$844k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Ellen E & Victor J Cohn Supporting Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’24
InternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving10$179k30%
FY20249$110k22%
FY20225$224k20%
FY20214$42k0%
FY201910$165kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Philanthropy$818kReligion$322kEducation$214kHealth$114kArts & Culture$68kFood & Nutrition$6k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Templeisrael of Greater Cleveland$182,0001n/a
Four Community Hillel House Dba Hillel at Kent State University$133,00057%
Menorah Park Foundation$80,00042%
The Musical Arts Association$50,00050%
Ohio State University Foundation$46,00050%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$34,00010%
Rainier Scholars$33,00010%
Sponsors for Educational Opportunity Inc$33,0001n/a
Gilmour Academy Inc$28,0003n/a
Ort America Inc$24,00020%
Show all 16 grantees
All grantees of Ellen E & Victor J Cohn Supporting Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Templeisrael of Greater Cleveland$182,0001n/a
Four Community Hillel House Dba Hillel at Kent State University$133,00057%
Menorah Park Foundation$80,00042%
The Musical Arts Association$50,00050%
Ohio State University Foundation$46,00050%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$34,00010%
Rainier Scholars$33,00010%
Sponsors for Educational Opportunity Inc$33,0001n/a
Gilmour Academy Inc$28,0003n/a
Ort America Inc$24,00020%
Gross Schechter Day School$20,00030%
Joseph & Florence Mandel Jewish Day School$20,00030%
Friends of Chabad Lubavitch San Diego$17,6001n/a
Fairmount Temple Anshe Chesed Congregation$6,6001n/a
United Way of Greater Cleveland$6,00010%
The Negev Foundation$6,00010%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ellen E & Victor J Cohn Supporting Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFour Community Hillel House Dba Hillel at Kent State University: $133,000 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetMenorah Park Foundation: $80,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOhio State University Foundation: $46,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $34,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRainier Scholars: $33,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOrt America Inc: $24,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGross Schechter Day School: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJoseph & Florence Mandel Jewish Day School: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Cleveland: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Negev Foundation: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

Compare Ellen E & Victor J Cohn Supporting Foundation with peer funders

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Ellen E & Victor J Cohn Supporting Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ellen E & Victor J Cohn Supporting 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.

About Ellen E & Victor J Cohn Supporting Foundation

How much does Ellen E & Victor J Cohn Supporting Foundation give?
Ellen E & Victor J Cohn Supporting Foundation reported 11 itemized grants totaling $189,000, out of $243,800 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 10 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Ellen E & Victor J Cohn Supporting Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (53%), Religion (21%), Education (14%).
Who are Ellen E & Victor J Cohn Supporting Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Templeisrael of Greater Cleveland ($182k), Four Community Hillel House Dba Hillel at Kent State University ($133k), Menorah Park Foundation ($80k).
Does Ellen E & Victor J Cohn Supporting Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ellen E & Victor J Cohn Supporting Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Ellen E & Victor J Cohn Supporting Foundation based?
Ellen E & Victor J Cohn Supporting Foundation is based in OH.

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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Ellen E & Victor J Cohn Supporting’s filings →

More from the funding graph