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Karen B Cohen Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$40k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 20
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$911
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Karen B Cohen Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationInternationalFood & NutritionAnimalsArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
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
FY2024still arriving5$40k40%
FY20239$16k33%
FY202214$27k36%
FY202116$35k31%
FY202014$16k36%
FY201915$44k7%
FY201820$44k80%
FY201715$42kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$82kEducation$55kArts & Culture$51kHealth$24kFood & Nutrition$11kCivil Rights$10kAnimals$7kInternational$6kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OR
SD
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American Diabetes Association$21,50050%
Temple Beth El$20,0005n/a
Cornell University$20,00010%
Metropolitan Museum of Art$14,00020%
The Carnegie Hall Corporation$10,00010%
Temple Beth El$9,0001n/a
Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc$9,00040%
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$6,45070%
The Rockefeller University$6,00020%
Long Island Cares Inc$5,40040%
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Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($100k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Karen B Cohen Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $21,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Carnegie Hall Corporation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSimon Wiesenthal Center Inc: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $6,450 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Rockefeller University: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLong Island Cares Inc: $5,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $4,050 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFresh Air Fund: $3,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGreat Neck Student Aid Fund Inc: $3,700 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetNew York Studio School: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLehigh University: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChebra Agudas Achim Chesed Shel Emeth Hebrew Free Burial Associationinc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKings Point Patrolmen's Benevolent Association Inc: $2,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetWnet: $1,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEdward a Myerberg Senior Center Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLivlyme Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCity Harvest Inc: $1,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreat Neck Historical Society: $500 over 1y, 1.4% 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 26.

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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.

Jewish Communal FundNY11.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Karen B Cohen Foundation Inc

How much does Karen B Cohen Foundation Inc give?
Karen B Cohen Foundation Inc reported 5 grants totaling $39,800 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Karen B Cohen Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (31%), Education (21%), Arts & Culture (19%).
Who are Karen B Cohen Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: American Diabetes Association ($22k), Temple Beth El ($20k), Cornell University ($20k).
Does Karen B Cohen Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Karen B 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 Karen B Cohen Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is Karen B Cohen Foundation Inc based?
Karen B 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 52 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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