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Judge Aaron B Cohen Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $245k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $36,000 |
| AVENTURA TURNBERRY JEWISH CENTER | $35,000 |
| JAFCO | $21,250 |
| MARYLAND INSTITUTE COLLEGE OF ART | $20,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH EL | $18,000 |
| CONGREGATION TIFERETH ISRAEL | $18,000 |
| WYPR YOUR PUBLIC RADIO | $17,000 |
| CONVERGENCE CENTER FOR POLICY | $15,000 |
| CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES | $15,000 |
| ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| WORLD CENTER KITCHEN INC | $10,000 |
| GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION | $8,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $118k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
29 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TMTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC6× · 2020–2025 · $260k · revenue +18%
- MIMaryland Institute8× · 2017–2025 · $150k · revenue +1%
- CFCENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC6× · 2017–2025 · $113k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- UHUNITED HATZALAHone grant, 2024 · $20k
- MPMARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORKgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +60%
- IFINSTITUTE FOR ISLAMIC CHRISTIAN AND JEWISH STUDIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +128%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Free press action fund fights for your rights to connect and communicate. we fight to save the free and open internet, curb runaway media consolidation, protect press freedom, and promote digital civil rights. we believe that change…
The district of columbia bar foundation was established to raise funds for organizations in the district that provide hands-on legal services to residents who are unable to afford legal assistance.
The mission of the central baltimore partnership cbp is to galvanize the renaissance of the neighborhoods of central baltimore, creating a diverse, equitable community where everyone can thrive. the organization pursues its mission by…
We advocate with and for marylanders experiencing poverty to achieve equity and social justice through free civil legal services, community collaboration, and systems change.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…
FAMILY LEAGUE OF BALTIMORE SERVES AS AN ARCHITECT OF CHANGE IN BALTIMORE BY PROMOTING DATA DRIVEN, COLLABORATIVE INITIATIVES AND ALIGNING RESOURCES TO CREATE LASTING OUTCOMES FOR CHILDREN, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES. THIS PAST YEAR REFLECTS…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
See schedule o.inspired by our home city, baltimore center stage acts as a cultural catalyst for all communities to access theater in every form and engage in compelling conversations. programming: capture the collective imagination and…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maryland Philanthropy Network and the most unlike its peers is Actors' Playhouse Productions Inc. 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.
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 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
23 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. 23 of the 50 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Maryland Institute ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds ACTORS' PLAYHOUSE PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds GREATER BALTIMORE CULTURAL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CONVERGENCE CENTER FOR POLICY RESOLUTION ↗
- Who funds OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WELLNESS SLEEP & CIRCADIAN NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF JEWISH EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR ISLAMIC CHRISTIAN AND JEWISH STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds LOVE & CORNBREAD ↗
- Who funds KIDSIDE INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · The Abell Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Joseph Meyerhoff Fund Inc · The Bunting Family Foundation · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Robert W Deutsch Foundation · The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Inc · The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc
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 Judge Aaron B Cohen Charitable 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Center for Urban Families Inc — 36% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance Inc — 5% of income from government
- Arts Every Day Inc — 4% of income from government
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.
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