· Private foundation
Il Cohen 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, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k60 grants · $191k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $92k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUNFLOWER OF PEACE FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| EARTH JUSTICE | $10,325 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| AFMDA | $10,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $10,000 |
| EWG | $10,000 |
| PASADENA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PEER | $10,000 |
| PROPUBLICA | $7,500 |
| ORCAS MEALS ON WHEELS | $5,200 |
| MEMRI | $5,000 |
| ORCAS FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| NRDC | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL PARKS & CONSERVATION ASSOC | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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 +23% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
74 repeat relationships: 48 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 20 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE4× · 2020–2024 · $22k · revenue +48%
Feeding America4× · 2021–2024 · $13k · revenue +23%- MMMINDS MATTER OF SEATTLE INC4× · 2021–2025 · $12k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- SCSUPPORT CENTER FOR CHILD ADVOCATESone grant, 2021 · $10k
- PEPUBLIC EMPLOYEES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +89%
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +27%
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.": - count it: our work is…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.
Ceres is a nonprofit advocacy organization working to accelerate the transition to a cleaner, more just, and resilient world. through education and research, we make the business case for action on the most pressing sustainability…
Namati, inc. (namati) is dedicated to putting the law in people's hands. we strive to build a just world, in which every one of us can take part in the decisions and demand accountability from the institutions that affect our lives.…
How this is measured
66 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 66 of the 215 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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.
Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Lorber Foundation · Orcas Island Community Foundation · The Beveridge Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Il Cohen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Il Cohen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Urban League of Greater Springfield Inc: 81% of income from government
- Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture Inc: 35% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- Survival Centers Inc: 9% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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