New York · Private foundation
Jerome M 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.
- $301k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 53%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 26
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 53% of the organizations Jerome M Cohen Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 53% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $166k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $301k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $315k | 53% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $241k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $216k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $434k | 31% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $340k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roundabout Theatre Company Inc | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Connections Mentor Inc | $120,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Donorschooseorg | $117,112 | 5 | 0% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $97,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | $85,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Doe Fund Inc | $75,000 | 2 | 0% |
| New York Women in Film & Television Inc | $60,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Pets are Wonderful Support Inc dba PAWS | $55,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Legacy Global Programs | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($294k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Jerome M Cohen Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 44 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Jerome M Cohen Foundation
- How much does Jerome M Cohen Foundation give?
- Jerome M Cohen Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $301,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 26 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Jerome M Cohen Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (26%), Arts & Culture (21%), Education (10%).
- Who are Jerome M Cohen Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Roundabout Theatre Company Inc ($125k), Connections Mentor Inc ($120k), Donorschooseorg ($117k).
- Does Jerome M Cohen Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jerome M Cohen Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Jerome M Cohen Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, Jewish Communal Fund, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is Jerome M Cohen Foundation based?
- Jerome M Cohen Foundation is based in NY.
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