How much does Lu-Ben Cohen Family Foundation give?

Lu-Ben Cohen Family Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $25,918 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Lu-Ben Cohen Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (67%), Health (12%), Religion (9%).

Who are Lu-Ben Cohen Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: American Friends of Hebrew University Inc ($1.1M), Opendor Media Inc ($85k), American Friends of Magen David Adom ($55k).

Does Lu-Ben Cohen Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Lu-Ben 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 Lu-Ben Cohen Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.

Where is Lu-Ben Cohen Family Foundation based?

Lu-Ben Cohen Family Foundation is based in PA.

Lu-Ben Cohen Family Foundation

Lu-Ben Cohen Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Lu-Ben Cohen Family Foundation

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.

$26k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$8k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.1MHealth$201kReligion$150kInternational$108kHuman Services$57kPhilanthropy$33kArts & Culture$3kAnimals$2kOther$0

02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500

Median grant

States reached

$1.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
JAFCO	$8,300
THE WILLIE & CELIA TRUMP SYNAGOGUE	$6,225
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM	$5,400
IMAGINATION PRODUCTIONS INC	$5,000
ASPCA	$500
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION	$250
ADRIANE ARSH CENTER	$100
JFCS	$100
HAR ZION TEMPLE	$43

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, 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.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.5M · 15 repeat orgs$173k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.5M

$173k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%

+43%

Still filing today

53%

46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $450 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalReligionArts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthAnimalsOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

AF
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC
3× · 2017–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +40%
OM
OPENDOR MEDIA INC
4× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +108%
AF
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
6× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +206%

Funded once

AI
Adi Israel Foundation Incgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +76%
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2017 · $50k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2020 · $30k

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.

04Its field

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.

Sherit Isroel

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The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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The Nochim & Rivka Zeldes Foundation

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Zichron Avrohom Yosef

Philanthropy

The Jerusalem Connection

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The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture

Israel Emergency Alliance

Standwithus is an international, education organization dedicated to informing the public about israel & combating extremism & anti-semitism. we believe education is the road to peace. (see continuation on schedule o)

International

Aishel Hatzedek

International

Friends of Ir David Inc

To provide assistance to organizations in the old city of jerusalem and the ancient city of david.

International

Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech

Moskowitz Prize for Zionism Inc

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Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel

Philanthropy

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Hadassah Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Kenneth a Horowitz Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 42 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

20/20

Grantees still filing

17/20

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

International$1,205,750Other$315,468Religion$119,272Human Services$7,800Philanthropy$4,800Arts & Culture$3,015Animals$2,400

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.

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 Federation of Greater PhiladelphiaPA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lu-Ben Cohen Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lu-Ben Cohen Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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