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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 FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$487kArts & Culture$387kEducation$187kCivil Rights$163kYouth Development$140kPhilanthropy$134kHousing & Shelter$105kHuman Services$60kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $195k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEGACY GLOBAL PROGRAMS$50,000
ROUNDABOUT THEATRE CO$50,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH INITIATIVE FUND$30,000
CONNECTIONS MENTOR INC$25,000
THE ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI$25,000
ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE$25,000
DONORSCHOOSE$20,000
WIN INC$20,000
THE HOPPER BELMONT FOUNDATION$10,000
PAWS NY$10,000
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVATORY$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
CANCER CARES$10,000
ACTION PLAY$5,000
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$1,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AUTISM PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%THE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE: $10k → 9%NEW YORK WOMENS FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $25k → 17%WOMEN IN NEED: $10k → 17%WOMEN IN NEED: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
MA
IN
NJ
CT
CA
AZ
DC
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 28 repeat orgs$535k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
29

Total granted

$1.3M
$435k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+3%

Still filing today

82%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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
HealthArts & CultureEducationCivil RightsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • RT
    ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $125k · revenue +129%
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $98k · revenue +28%
  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
    4× · 2020–2025 · $85k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • NY
    NEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $60k · revenue -9%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • MS
    MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +37%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
2
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
6
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
New York Dental Affiliates Pc

Operating as an integral part of the nyc health + hospitals ("h+h"), formerly the new york city health and hospitals corporation. nyda will further h+h's tax-exempt charitable, scientific, and educational purposes by enhancing the…

Health
11
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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12
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Cares Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hopper-Belmont Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%7%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr21%31%20–35yr14%27%35–55yr11%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%12%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr21%31%20–35yr14%23%35–55yr11%22%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/48
the rest of the field
11%
6,224/55,744

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

47 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 47 of the 63 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/47
Grantees still filing
29/47
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION INC — $60,000 · OtherNEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION INCPLANNED PARENTHOOD — $50,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODWIN INC — $40,000 · OtherSMILE TRAIN INC — $40,000 · OtherALLIANCE OF RESIDENT THEATRESNY — $30,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH INITIATIVE FUND — $30,000 · OtherTHE DOE FUND INC — $75,000 · OtherTHE DOE FUND INCPets are Wonderful Support Inc dba PAWS — $55,000 · OtherPets are Wonderful Support Inc dba PAWSHOPPER-BELMONT FOUNDATION — $35,000 · Other+28 more — $389,232 · Other+28 moreDONORSCHOOSEORG — $117,112 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEORGICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $85,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF …THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $25,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF …THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · EducationTHE POSSE FOUNDA…Actionplay Incorporated — $15,000 · EducationActionplay Incor…WORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND — $10,000 · EducationROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC — $125,000 · Arts & CultureROUNDABOUT TH…HEALING TREE CO — $46,500 · Arts & CultureHEALING TREE …CHASHAMA INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureCHASHAMA INCNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK FOUN…JAZZ DRAMA PROGRAM — $10,000 · Arts & CultureANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $97,500 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAM…AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN C…ACCELERATE CHANGE INC — $20,000 · Civil RightsACCELERATE…THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER — $10,000 · Civil RightsTHE VOTER …+1 more — $5,000 · Civil RightsPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $75,000 · HealthPLANNED PA…CHARLEY'S FUND INC — $50,000 · HealthCHARLEY'S …Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $11,000 · HealthDana-Farbe…THE BRAIN TUMOR NETWORK INC — $10,500 · HealthTHE BRAIN …Cancer Care Inc — $10,000 · HealthCancer Car…THE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL — $10,000 · HealthTHE MOUNT …CONNECTIONS MENTOR INC — $120,000 · Youth DevelopmentLegacy Global Programs — $50,000 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $35,000 · PhilanthropyNEW YORK CARES INC — $35,000 · Philanthropy
Other$804,232Education$277,112Arts & Culture$226,500Civil Rights$167,500Health$166,500Youth Development$120,000Philanthropy$120,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC — $125,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTIONS MENTOR INC — $120,000 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $117,112 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $97,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $85,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DOE FUND INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION INC — $60,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetPets are Wonderful Support Inc dba PAWS — $55,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetCHARLEY'S FUND INC — $50,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetHEALING TREE CO — $46,500 over 4y, 35% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPPER-BELMONT FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetNEW YORK CARES INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHASHAMA INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Lit Fund — $25,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetACCELERATE CHANGE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN IN NEED INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetActionplay Incorporated — $15,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRAIN TUMOR NETWORK INC — $10,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRESTAURANT WORKERS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCancer Care Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUTISM PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAZZ DRAMA PROGRAM — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCOUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM RED WHITE & BLUE INC — $5,160 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NORML FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Fairfield County's Co…Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…The Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Jerome M Cohen Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 63 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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