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Harold and Janice Cohen Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Harold and Janice Cohen Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$150k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$150k
Largest
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01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Education$1.0MHealth$168kReligion$15kPhilanthropy$7kHuman Services$3kCivil Rights$2kRecreation & Sports$500Arts & Culture$275Other$0
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$150,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$47k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DANA-FARBER - DR RICHARD STONE'S LEUKEMIA RESEARCH$150,000
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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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Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Boys Town: $50 → 12%Jewish Community Center of the North Shore: $3k → 10%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

MT
IL
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
CA
NE
MO
KY
VA
KS
DC
TX
FL
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 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
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
2
Brightfocus Foundation

Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…

Health
3
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
4
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
5
Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation

To provide with compassion and dedication superior quality health care and rehabilitation for adults and to directly or indirectly coordinate arrangements and provision for comprehensive health care and social support services to frail…

Health
6
New York University

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.

Education
7
Friedreich's Ataxia Research Alliance

To marshal and focus the resources and relationships needed to cure fa by raising funds for research, promoting public awareness and aligning scientists, patients, clinicians, government agencies and pharmaceutical companies dedicated to…

Health
8
American Academy of Pediatrics

The mission of the american academy of pediatrics is to obtain optimal physical, mental and social health for all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. the academy seeks to promote this goal by encouraging and assisting its…

Health
9
Curepsp Inc

To raise awareness, build community, improve care and find a cure for psp, cbd and msa.

Health
10
American College of Physicians Inc

The mission of the american college of physicians (acp), www. acponline.org, is to enhance the quality and effectiveness of health care by fostering excellence and professionalism in the practice of medicine. acp was founded in 1915 to…

Health
11
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
12
Mass General Brigham Incorporated

Patient care, teaching, research and serving the community.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Parkinson's Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Juvenile Aid Scholarship Organization. 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

23 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. 23 of the 48 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
21/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MGH ENDOWND SCHOLARSHIP IN CARDIOLOGY: $1,000,000 · OtherMGH ENDOWND SCHOLARSHIP IN CARDIOLOGYDANA-FARBER - DR RICHARD STONE'S LEUKEMIA RESEARCH: $150,000 · OtherDANA-FARBER - DR RICHARD STONE'S LEUKEMIA RESEARCH+29 more: $31,876 · OtherCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $6,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $2,600 · HealthBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc: $1,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $200 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $150 · Health+4 more: $291 · HealthJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $2,536 · Human Services+4 more: $190 · Human ServicesANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $2,000 · Civil RightsSPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC: $200 · Recreation & SportsThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $200 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,181,876Philanthropy$6,000Health$4,241Human Services$2,726Civil Rights$2,000Recreation & Sports$200Arts & Culture$200

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $2,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $2,536 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEAST ARC INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUVENILE AID SCHOLARSHIP ORGANIZATION: $136 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMY BROTHER'S TABLE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $55 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAARP FOUNDATION: $40 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $36 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFlorida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc: $25 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.

Fiduciary Charitable …Combined Jewish Phila…Eastern Bank Foundati…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Fiduciary Charitable Foundation Dba Fiduciary Trust CharitableMA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fiduciary Charitable Foundation Dba Fiduciary Trust Charitable · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Harold and Janice Cohen Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harold and Janice Cohen Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Northeast Arc Inc: 73% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
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How do I get to Harold and Janice Cohen Family Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Harold and Janice Cohen Family Charitable 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.

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 48 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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