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Julie & Frank Cohen Family 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.

$907k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2025
5
Organizations funded FY2024
60%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$64,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$532,500
Organizations funded a year
1 to 10
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$14M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 60% of the organizations Julie & Frank Cohen Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 65% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesInternationalCrime & LegalOther
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 arriving7$837k43%
FY20245$295k60%
FY20231$64k0%
FY20227$684k29%
FY202110$1.7M60%
FY20208$240k63%
FY20189$456k67%
FY20176$373kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$2.4MHealth$825kEducation$310kInternational$192kArts & Culture$151kPhilanthropy$75kReligion$70kCrime & Legal$20kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MD
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Northwestern University$2,868,02770%
American Israel Education Foundation Inc$256,00040%
The Seven Hills School$250,00050%
Temple B Nai or Endowment Trust$130,0002n/a
Morristown-Beard School$125,00010%
Cincinnati Museum Center$100,00010%
Challenged Athletes Inc$50,00011%
Metropolitan Museum of Art$45,00010%
Their Stories Foundation Inc$25,0001n/a
The Mount Sinai Children's Center Foundation Inc$25,00013%
Show all 27 grantees

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($630k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Julie & Frank Cohen Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorthwestern University: $2,868,027 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Israel Education Foundation Inc: $256,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Seven Hills School: $250,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMorristown-Beard School: $125,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCincinnati Museum Center: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetChallenged Athletes Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Mount Sinai Children's Center Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetLupus Research Alliance Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt Michaels Legal Center: $20,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetTampa Jccfederation Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMelanoma Research Foundation: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNational Jewish Health: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEncourage Kids Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCancer Support Community Greater Ny & Ct Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetReading Partners: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of New York City Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew York University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCincinnati Baseball Museum: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlliance for the Chesapeake Bay Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetProject Lyme: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEast Harlem Tutorial Program Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVillage Academies Network Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Alpaugh Family Economics Center for Education and Research: $2,500 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 25.

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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.

Debra and Kenneth Caplan FoundationDE15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Debra and Kenneth Caplan Foundation · United Way Miami Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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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Find your warmest path to Julie & Frank Cohen Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Julie & Frank Cohen Family Foundation

How much does Julie & Frank Cohen Family Foundation give?
Julie & Frank Cohen Family Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $906,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Julie & Frank Cohen Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (59%), Health (20%), Education (8%).
Who are Julie & Frank Cohen Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Northwestern University ($2.9M), American Israel Education Foundation Inc ($256k), The Seven Hills School ($250k).
Does Julie & Frank Cohen Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Julie & Frank Cohen Family Foundation 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 Julie & Frank Cohen Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Debra and Kenneth Caplan Foundation, United Way Miami Inc, Jewish Communal Fund.
Where is Julie & Frank Cohen Family Foundation based?
Julie & Frank Cohen Family Foundation is based in FL.

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 34 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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