· Private foundation
Harry & Helen Cohen Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUPERFICIAL SIDEROSIS RESEARCH ALLIANCE | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FND | $15,000 |
| LOVE WITHOUT BORDERS | $2,500 |
| NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 2 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SSSUPERFICIAL SIDEROSIS RESEARCH ALLIANCE4× · 2022–2025 · $96k · revenue +17% · 50% of their budget
INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2021 · $75k · revenue +229%- RSROCHESTER SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF5× · 2018–2023 · $6k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- 4P4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
- JSJEWISH SENIOR LIFE FOUNDATION GENERAL REHABILITATIONone grant, 2021 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $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.
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.
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.
The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
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…
The mission of the new york institute for special education is to provide quality educational programs and support to students and families in a safe caring environment to awaken and inspire student curiosity, lifelong learning and…
The provision of higher education in the liberal arts and sciences, medicine and dentistry, nursing and music; research; and charitable patient care services.
Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
The graduate school of the stowers institute for medical research ("gssimr") exempt purpose is to provide graduate education that will prepare scholars for scientific research in the biological sciences.
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 33 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 SUPERFICIAL SIDEROSIS RESEARCH ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds 4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE RED SCHOOL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds REECE'S RAINBOW INC ↗
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 Harry & Helen Cohen Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harry & Helen Cohen Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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