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Joseph M & Barbara Cohen Foundation Inc

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.

$269k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
16
Organizations funded FY2024
19%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$14,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$65,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 24
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$369k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Joseph M & Barbara Cohen Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving14$269k7%
FY202416$264k19%
FY202311$226k36%
FY202224$485k67%
FY20218$150k63%
FY20209$91kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Community Improvement$1.2MArts & Culture$632kFood & Nutrition$330kHealth$236kEducation$111kScience & Tech$65kReligion$56kRecreation & Sports$30kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Citymeals-On-Wheels$330,00040%
Media Cares Foundation Inc$170,000616%
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc$116,00021%
The Jackson Laboratory$65,00040%
Central Synagogue$56,0004n/a
The Parrish Art Museum Inc$50,00021%
National Gallery of Art$50,00030%
National Shingles Foundation$40,000211%
The Birch Wathen Lenox School$40,00040%
Metropolitan Museum of Art$37,00020%
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All grantees of Joseph M & Barbara Cohen Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Citymeals-On-Wheels$330,00040%
Media Cares Foundation Inc$170,000616%
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc$116,00021%
The Jackson Laboratory$65,00040%
Central Synagogue$56,0004n/a
The Parrish Art Museum Inc$50,00021%
National Gallery of Art$50,00030%
National Shingles Foundation$40,000211%
The Birch Wathen Lenox School$40,00040%
Metropolitan Museum of Art$37,00020%
The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations$35,00030%
The Jewish Museum$30,00030%
Central Park Conservancy Inc$30,00030%
Whitney Museum of American Art$30,00030%
The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc$25,0001n/a
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation$20,00020%
Chapin School$20,00020%
The Frick Collection$16,50020%
Museum of Modern Art$15,00010%
International Center of Photography$10,00010%
The Chapin School Ltd$10,00010%
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc$10,00010%
Aperture Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Oakwood Friends School Inc$5,0001n/a
New Museum of Contemporary Art$1,80010%
Georgetown University$1,00010%
The Southampton Fresh Air Home$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($265k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Joseph M & Barbara Cohen Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCitymeals-On-Wheels: $330,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMedia Cares Foundation Inc: $170,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetThe Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc: $116,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetThe Jackson Laboratory: $65,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Parrish Art Museum Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNational Gallery of Art: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNational Shingles Foundation: $40,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetThe Birch Wathen Lenox School: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $37,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Jewish Museum: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Park Conservancy Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWhitney Museum of American Art: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSolomon R Guggenheim Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChapin School: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $16,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Center of Photography: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Chapin School Ltd: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAperture Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew Museum of Contemporary Art: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgetown University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Southampton Fresh Air Home: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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.

Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Joseph M & Barbara Cohen Foundation Inc

How much does Joseph M & Barbara Cohen Foundation Inc give?
Joseph M & Barbara Cohen Foundation Inc reported 14 grants totaling $269,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 24 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Joseph M & Barbara Cohen Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (45%), Arts & Culture (23%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
Who are Joseph M & Barbara Cohen Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Citymeals-On-Wheels ($330k), Media Cares Foundation Inc ($170k), The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc ($116k).
Does Joseph M & Barbara Cohen Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Joseph M & Barbara Cohen Foundation Inc 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 Joseph M & Barbara Cohen Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Joseph M & Barbara Cohen Foundation Inc based?
Joseph M & Barbara Cohen Foundation Inc is based in NY.

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 38 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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