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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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY | $15,000 |
| CONVERGENCE CENTER FOR POLICY | $15,000 |
| CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| WORLD CENTER KITCHEN INC | $10,000 |
| GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION | $8,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
How this is measured
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 BALTIMORE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WELLNESS SLEEP & CIRCADIAN NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR ISLAMIC CHRISTIAN AND JEWISH STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF JEWISH EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds LOVE & CORNBREAD ↗
- Who funds KIDSIDE INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Judge Aaron B Cohen Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Judge Aaron B Cohen Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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