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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 FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Community Improvement$1.2MArts & Culture$632kFood & Nutrition$330kHealth$236kEducation$111kScience & Tech$65kReligion$56kRecreation & Sports$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k13 grants · $204k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
$14,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$369k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY MEALS ON WHEELS$65,000
MEDIA CARES FOUNDATION$30,000
THE JACKSON LABORATORY$25,000
CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY$25,000
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC$25,000
THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY$15,000
CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE$14,000
TISCH MSR NEW YORK$10,000
THE BIRCH WATHEN LENOX SCHOOL$10,000
THE CHAPIN SCHOOL$10,000
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART$10,000
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY$10,000
SOUTHAMPTON VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE SERVICE$10,000
JEWISH MUSEUM$10,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%PARISH ART MUSEUM INC: $25k → 7%WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $10k → 17%NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC: $25k → 15%THE JACKSON LABORATORY: $25k → 11%CORNEA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%THE CHAPIN SCHOOL: $10k → 11%NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART: $20k → 11%PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC: $25k → 7%THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY: $15k → 17%THE JACKSON LABORATORY: $20k → 11%THE CHAPIN SCHOOL: $10k → 11%NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART: $10k → 11%THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY: $10k → 17%THE JACKSON LABORATORY: $10k → 11%THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY: $10k → 17%THE JACKSON LABORATORY: $10k → 11%SEE SCHEDULE ATTACHED: $624k → 17%SEE SCHEDULE ATTACHED: $618k → 17%CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE: $14k → 17%CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE: $14k → 17%CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE: $14k → 17%CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE: $14k → 17%CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $10k → 17%THE FRICK COLLECTION: $10k → 17%CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LICOLN CENTER: $91k → 17%NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC: $25k → 17%THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: $25k → 17%MEDIA CARES FOUNDATION: $30k → 17%CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY: $25k → 17%MEDIA CARES FOUNDATION: $30k → 17%CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LICOLN CENTER: $25k → 17%NATIONAL SHINGLES FOUNDATION: $30k → 17%THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: $25k → 17%MEDIA CARES FOUNDATION: $30k → 17%CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY: $25k → 17%MEDIA CARES FOUNDATION: $30k → 17%LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $10k → 17%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $25k → 17%MEDIA CARES FOUNDATION: $20k → 17%LINCOLN CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS: $10k → 17%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $12k → 17%NATIONAL SHINGLES FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%LINCOLN CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS: $10k → 17%MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $15k → 17%CITY MEALS ON WHEELS: $100k → 17%CITY MEALS ON WHEELS: $100k → 17%CITY MEALS ON WHEELS: $65k → 17%CITY MEALS ON WHEELS: $65k → 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.

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 22 repeat orgs$173k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
17

Total granted

$1.3M
$148k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+37%

Still filing today

73%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
Arts & CultureEducationHealthFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther

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

  • C
    CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS
    4× · 2022–2025 · $330k · revenue +1%
  • TC
    The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc
    2× · 2021–2022 · $116k · revenue +130%
  • TJ
    THE JACKSON LABORATORY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $65k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • CR
    CORNEA RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • NY
    NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • MO
    Metropolitan Opera
    one grant, 2020 · $25k

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
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
3
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
4
Philadelphia Museum of Art

The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…

Arts & Culture
5
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
6
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
7
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
8
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…

Arts & Culture
9
The Newark Museum Association

Nmoa mission statement is: we welcome everyone with inclusive experiences that spark curiosity and foster community.

Arts & Culture
10
Clyfford Still Museum

Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.

Arts & Culture
11
New York Historical Society

The founding mission of the new-york historical society ("the new york historical "tnyh") is to collect, preserve, and interpret, for the broadest possible public, material relevant to the history of the united states in general and of new…

Arts & Culture
12
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations and the most unlike its peers is The Jackson Laboratory. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHomeless & Vulnerable Servi…New York Civic AdvocacyYouth Education & EnrichmentContemporary Art Support Or…Classical Music Organizatio…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 63 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr21%0%10–20yr20%15%20–35yr12%26%35–55yr11%59%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr21%0%10–20yr20%47%20–35yr12%8%35–55yr11%45%55yr+

The field is 21% 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 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/27
the rest of the field
13%
3,538/26,975

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

25 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. 25 of the 40 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
18/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc — $116,000 · Arts & CultureThe Chamber Music Society of L…THE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INCNational Gallery of Art — $50,000 · Arts & CultureNational Gallery of ArtMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $37,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTTHE JEWISH MUSEUM — $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH MUSEUMWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $30,000 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ARTTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCI…SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern Art — $15,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $26,800 · Arts & Culture+4 moreCENTRAL SYNAGOGUE — $56,000 · OtherCENTRAL SYNAGOGUETHE METROPOLITAN OPERA — $50,000 · OtherTHE METROPOLITAN OPERACHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY — $50,000 · OtherCHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETYTISCH MSR NEW YORK — $35,000 · OtherTISCH MSR NEW YORKCORNEA RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $25,000 · OtherCORNEA RESEARCH FOUNDATIONNEW YORK PHILHARMONIC — $25,000 · OtherNEW YORK PHILHARMONICMetropolitan Opera — $25,000 · OtherMetropolitan OperaSOUTHAMPTON VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE SERVICE — $21,000 · OtherSOUTHAMPTON VOLUNTEER AMBU…LINCOLN CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS — $20,000 · OtherLINCOLN CENTER FOR PERFORM…The Frick Collection — $16,500 · Other+6 more — $19,000 · Other+6 moreCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $330,000 · Food & NutritionCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELSMEDIA CARES FOUNDATION INC — $170,000 · PhilanthropyMEDIA CARES …THE JACKSON LABORATORY — $65,000 · HealthNATIONAL SHINGLES FOUNDATION — $40,000 · Health+1 more — $1,000 · HealthTHE BIRCH WATHEN LENOX SCHOOL — $40,000 · EducationThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $35,000 · EducationCHAPIN SCHOOL — $20,000 · EducationTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD — $10,000 · Education+1 more — $1,000 · EducationCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $30,000 · Recreation & Sports
Arts & Culture$399,800Other$342,500Food & Nutrition$330,000Philanthropy$170,000Health$106,000Education$106,000Recreation & Sports$30,000

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 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 budgetTHE BIRCH WATHEN LENOX SCHOOL — $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL SHINGLES FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 2y, 11% 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 budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% 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 budgetTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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
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.

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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 Joseph M & Barbara Cohen Foundation Inc 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 · 10%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 40 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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