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Jeffrey Cook Charitable Trust Lawrence B Cohen Et Al Trustees at a glance

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Jeffrey Cook Charitable Trust Lawrence B Cohen Et Al Trustees

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.

$128k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Community Improvement$383kEducation$150kEnvironment$78kInternational$52kAnimals$40kScience & Tech$20kHousing & Shelter$10k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $22k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$22,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KOUNKUEY DESIGN INITIATIVE$100,263
ASSOCIATES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO$22,000
ASU FOUNDATION$6,000
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ASU FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%KOUNKUEY DESIGN INITIATIVE: $100k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $10k → 16%RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $4k → 11%ASSOCIATES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO: $22k → 17%HEALTHY AQUATICS MARINE INSTITUTE OF FLORIDA (DBA REEF INSTITUTE): $40k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE: $50k → 10%CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $52k → 9%RESILIENT DESIGN INSTITUTE INC: $20k → 11%KOUNKUEY DESIGN INITIATIVE: $78k → 14%SOCIETY OF BUILDING SCIENCE EDUCATORS: $3k → 11%ASSOCIATES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO: $12k → 17%REEF INSTITUTE: $25k → 11%RESILIENT DESIGN INSTITUTE INC: $9k → 11%KOUNKUEY DESIGN INITIATIVE: $58k → 14%ASSOCIATES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO: $10k → 17%HEALTHY AQUATICS MARINE INSTITUTE OF FLORIDA (DBA REEF INSTITUTE): $24k → 11%KOUNKUEY DESIGN INITIATIVE: $52k → 14%ASSOCIATES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO: $10k → 17%KOUNKUEY DESIGN INITIATIVE: $50k → 14%ASSOCIATES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO: $10k → 17%KOUNKUEY DESIGN INITIATIVE: $38k → 14%ASSOCIATES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO: $10k → 17%KOUNKUEY DESIGN INITIATIVE: $7k → 14%ASSOCIATES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO: $5k → 17%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

VT
NY
OR
CA
VA
AZ
NC
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Jeffrey Cook Charitable Trust Lawrence B Cohen Et Al Trustees’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Jeffrey Cook Charitable Trust Lawrence B Cohen Et Al Trusteeslessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.8% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$565k · 5 repeat orgs$117k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +90% since the first grant, against +65% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
7

Total granted

$565k
$117k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+90%
+65%

Still filing today

80%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationInternationalOther
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

  • KD
    KOUNKUEY DESIGN INITIATIVE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $383k · revenue +90%
  • TA
    THE ASSOCIATES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $78k · revenue -8%
  • HA
    HEALTHY AQUATICS MARINE INSTITUTE OF FLORIDA (DBA REEF INSTITUTE)
    2× · 2022–2024 · $64k

Funded once

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • RI
    REEF INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • DU
    DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +170%
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
The Governors of the University of Calgary

The University of Calgary is a global intellectual hub located in Canada's most enterprising city. In this spirited, high quality learning environment students will thrive in programs made rich by research, hands-on experiences and…

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2
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
Governing Council of the University of Toronto

The University's vision is to be a leader among the world's best public universities in its discovery, preservation and sharing of knowledge through its teaching and research and its commitment to excellence and equity.

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5
Indiana University Foundation

The Indiana University Foundation (IUF) maximizes private philanthropic support for Indiana University by fostering lifelong relationships with key stakeholders and providing advancement leadership and fundraising services for (Continued…

Education
6
The University of British Columbia

Pursuing excellence in research learning and engagement to foster global citizenship and advance a sustainable and just society across British Columbia Canada and the world.

Education
7
Carleton University

Carleton university provides post secondary education

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8
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
9
Simon Fraser University

SFUs mission is to advance knowledge through teaching research and engagement with the community. We are an open inclusive university whose foundation is intellectual and academic freedom. Our scholarship unites teaching and research: we…

Education
10
Dalhousie University

To provide a university education at the undergraduate and graduate level in areas of: architecture & planning, agriculture, arts & social sciences, college of continuing education, computer science, dentistry, engineering, graduate…

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11
Research Triangle Institute

Research Triangle Institute is one of the world's leading research institutes, dedicated to improving the human condition by turning knowledge into practice. Our staff of more than 5,300 provides research and technical (continued on…

Science & Tech
12
University Foundation
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Oregon Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Resilient Design Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

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 13 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KOUNKUEY DESIGN INITIATIVE INC: $382,763 · InternationalKOUNKUEY DESIGN INITIATIVE INCTHE ASSOCIATES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO INC: $77,750 · OtherTHE ASSOCIATES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TOR…HEALTHY AQUATICS MARINE INSTITUTE OF FLORIDA (DBA REEF INSTITUTE): $64,162 · OtherHEALTHY AQUATICS MARINE INSTITUTE OF FL…THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE: $50,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHA…RESILIENT DESIGN INSTITUTE INC: $29,250 · OtherRESILIENT DESIGN INSTITUTE INCREEF INSTITUTE: $25,000 · OtherREEF INSTITUTEUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $10,000 · Other+1 more: $2,515 · OtherCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $51,500 · PhilanthropyDALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $20,400 · EducationARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $11,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $3,950 · Education
International$382,763Other$258,677Philanthropy$51,500Education$40,350

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 budgetKOUNKUEY DESIGN INITIATIVE INC: $382,763 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetTHE ASSOCIATES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO INC: $77,750 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $51,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRESILIENT DESIGN INSTITUTE INC: $29,250 over 2y, 75% of budgetDALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $20,400 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $3,950 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jeffrey Cook Charitable Trust Lawrence B Cohen Et Al Trustees funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jeffrey Cook Charitable Trust Lawrence B Cohen Et Al Trustees. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to Jeffrey Cook Charitable Trust Lawrence B Cohen Et Al Trustees 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 13 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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