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Green Cohan Foundation at a glance

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Green Cohan Foundation

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$106k
Granted FY2019
36
Grants FY2019
7
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

International$72kArts & Culture$65kReligion$29kHuman Services$10kEnvironment$8kEducation$7kFood & Nutrition$4kPhilanthropy$3kOther$0
02FY2019 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k32 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $69k
$1,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN-ISRAEL EDUCATION FUND$25,000
WRITERS THEATRE$23,700
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$10,000
TEMPLE BETH-EL$10,000
SURVIVOR MITZVAH PROJECT$5,000
TERRI LYNNE LOKOFF CHILD CARE FOUNDATION$5,000
HONEST REPORTING COM$5,000
ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO$2,500
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS$2,000
AMHERST COLLEGE$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
STAND WITH US$1,500
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY$1,000
LAKEVIEW PANTRY$1,000
UNITED WAY METRO CHICAGO$1,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMHERST COLLEGE: $2k → 12%SCHOLARS FOR PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST: $350 → 7%Terri L Lokoff Child Care Fdn: $5k → 9%MIDDLE EAST FORUM: $1k → 22%COACHELLA VALLEY REPORTORY THEATER: $1k → 11%STAND WITH US: $2k → 14%Jewish National Fund: $20k → 6%SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY PROJECT (SEPP): $350 → 14%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS: $2k → 11%New Course: $5k → 10%Center for Enriched Living: $500 → 8%N Amer Friends IOLR: $10k → 14%Amherst College: $1k → 12%TERRI LYNNE LOKOFF CHILD CARE FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%StandWithUs Israel Emergency Allian: $1k → 14%Washington University: $1k → 11%CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING: $500 → 8%NAF-IOLR: $2k → 14%KATE SVITEK MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $358 → 7%Survivor Mitzvah Project: $5k → 14%HONEST REPORTING COM: $5k → 17%Jewish Institute for Natl Security: $500 → 14%ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $3k → 14%SURVIVOR MITZVAH PROJECT: $5k → 14%American Jewish Committee: $500 → 17%Art Institute of Chgo: $3k → 14%LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $500 → 14%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $10k → 17%AMERICAN-ISRAEL EDUCATION FUND: $25k → 14%ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE: $350 → 14%Loyola Marymount University: $350 → 14%Writers Theatre: $25k → 14%WRITERS THEATRE: $24k → 14%COMMUNITY HEALTH: $1k → 14%TEMPLE BETH-EL: $10k → 14%Temple Beth-El of Northbrook: $5k → 14%Temple Beth-El of Northbrook: $3k → 14%Rotary Club Charit Projects Fdn of: $1k → 14%Lakeview Pantry: $1k → 14%LAKEVIEW PANTRY: $1k → 14%Honest Reporting Com Inc: $5k → 14%Jewish United Fund Metro Chgo: $500 → 14%JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $500 → 14%United Way of Metro Chgo North-NWes: $1k → 14%UNITED WAY METRO CHICAGO: $1k → 14%CHICAGO CIVIC ORCHESTRA: $500 → 14%GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $1k → 14%Greater Chgo Food Depository: $1k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
MO
VA
DC
TX
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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$93k · 21 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
26

Total granted

$93k
$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
+24%

Still filing today

90%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19
InternationalEducationArts & CulturePublic BenefitHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • WT
    Writers Theatre Inc
    2× · 2017–2019 · $49k · revenue +8%
  • HI
    HONESTREPORTINGCOM INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $10k · revenue +125%
  • TA
    THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
    2× · 2017–2019 · $5k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • NA
    N Amer Friends IOLR
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • TB
    TEMPLE BETH-EL OF NORTHBROOK
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
  • PW
    PLANET WOMENgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +459%
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
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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2
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
3
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
4
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
5
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
6
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
8
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
9
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
10
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
11
The Israel Institute Inc

The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.

International
12
The Central European University

Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Horticultural Society; the most unlike its peers is Science and Environmental Policy Project. 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

33 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. 33 of the 62 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
27/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN-ISRAEL EDUCATION FUND: $25,000 · OtherAMERICAN-ISRAEL EDUCATION FUNDTEMPLE BETH-EL: $10,000 · OtherTEMPLE BETH-ELN Amer Friends IOLR: $10,000 · OtherN Amer Friends IOLRTEMPLE BETH-EL OF NORTHBROOK: $7,500 · OtherTEMPLE BETH-EL OF NORTHBROOKTerri L Lokoff Child Care Fdn: $5,000 · OtherTerri L Lokoff Child Care FdnTERRI LYNNE LOKOFF CHILD CARE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherTERRI LYNNE LOKOFF CHILD CARE FOUNDATION+32 more: $19,370 · Other+32 moreWriters Theatre Inc: $48,700 · Arts & CultureWriters Theatre IncHONESTREPORTINGCOM INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureHONESTREPORTINGCOM INC+2 more: $508 · Arts & CultureJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $30,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KERE…Survivor Mitzvah Project: $10,000 · InternationalSurvivor Mitzvah ProjectPLANET WOMEN: $5,000 · InternationalPLANET WOMEN+6 more: $4,150 · International+6 moreTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $5,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $3,000 · EducationAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $3,000 · EducationLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $850 · Education+1 more: $250 · EducationGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $2,000 · Food & NutritionENDOWMENT FOR MIDDLE EAST TRUTH: $650 · Public BenefitTHE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE: $650 · Public BenefitILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE: $600 · Public BenefitKATE SVITEK MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $608 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $500 · Philanthropy
Other$81,870Arts & Culture$59,208International$49,150Education$12,100Food & Nutrition$2,000Public Benefit$1,900Philanthropy$1,108

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWriters Theatre Inc: $48,700 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHONESTREPORTINGCOM INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSurvivor Mitzvah Project: $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPLANET WOMEN: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNOURISHING HOPE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLE EAST FORUM: $1,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENDOWMENT FOR MIDDLE EAST TRUTH: $650 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKATE SVITEK MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $608 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NATIONS WATCH - USA: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Illinois: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOLARS FOR PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $308 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetScience and Environmental Policy Project: $300 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMIDDLE EAST MEDIA AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $200 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.

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.

Jewish Federation of …David & Janet Polak F…The Milstein Family F…National Philanthropi…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · David & Janet Polak Foundation · The Milstein Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Green Cohan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Green Cohan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 62 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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