· Public charity
Ellen E & Victor J Cohn Supporting Foundation
Further the charitable, educational, and religious purposes of the jewish federation of cleveland ("federation").
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $165k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC | $34,000 |
| SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY | $33,000 |
| RAINIER SCHOLARS | $33,000 |
| HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE | $25,000 |
| HEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND | $10,000 |
| ORT AMERICA INC | $10,000 |
| MUSICAL ARTS ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GILMOUR ACADEMY | $8,000 |
| JOSEPH AND FLORENCE MANDEL JEWISH DAY SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| GROSS SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL | $8,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Grants abroad, by region: $25k on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT: RECOMMENDED FOR SHARAKA · CLEVELAND CHAPTER - GENERAL SUPPORT
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 12% of Ellen E & Victor J Cohn Supporting Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 59%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 1 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, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FCFOUR COMMUNITY HILLEL HOUSE DBA HILLEL AT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY5× · 2019–2025 · $133k · revenue +44%
- TMThe Musical Arts Association5× · 2019–2025 · $50k · revenue +39%
- OSOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2025 · $46k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- TOTEMPLEISRAEL OF GREATER CLEVELANDone grant, 2022 · $182k
- FOFRIENDS OF CHABAD LUBAVITCH SAN DIEGOone grant, 2019 · $18k
- FTFAIRMOUNT TEMPLE ANSHE CHESED CONGREGATIONone grant, 2019 · $7k
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.
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To further the charitable, educational and religious purposes of the jewish federation of cleveland ("federation").
Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 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.
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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds FOUR COMMUNITY HILLEL HOUSE DBA HILLEL AT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MENORAH PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds RAINIER SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds ORT AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds GROSS SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JOSEPH & FLORENCE MANDEL JEWISH DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds THE NEGEV FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ellen E & Victor J Cohn Supporting Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ellen E & Victor J Cohn Supporting Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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