· Private foundation
Marion Cohen Memorial Foundation Inc
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| RHODES COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| TEAM FOR KIDS NEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS | $2,500 |
| ALUMNI AND FRIENDS OF LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| CARLETON COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| THE BREARLEY SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVATORY | $2,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE ABORTION FUND | $2,000 |
| SNACK AND FRIENDS INC | $2,000 |
| MET COUNCIL RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL FUND | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| HEBREW EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY | $1,500 |
| ANIMAL HAVEN | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| BRONX HS OF SCIENCE ALUMNI FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 92% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.
34 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TTTHE TRUSTEES OF THE NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY9× · 2017–2025 · $57k · revenue +681%
- RCRhodes College9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +13%
- CCCARLETON COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- USUNION SETTLEMENT FOR SENIOR ACTIVITIES PROGRAMone grant, 2018 · $3k
- NYNew York Universitygraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +59%
- CBCARTER BURDEN NETWORK INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +30%
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 new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…
To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.
(see schedule o)
How this is measured
35 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. 35 of the 59 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 TRUSTEES OF THE NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Rhodes College ↗
- Who funds CARLETON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SNACK & FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BREARLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN JEWISH HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE ABORTION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BRONX HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE ALUMNI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Met Council Research & Education Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds HEBREW EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF BROOKLYN ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds CARTER BURDEN NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE ↗
- Who funds WOMENS EMERGENCY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Yellowhammer Fund ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Ford Foundation · Select Equity Group Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Express Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Marion Cohen Memorial Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marion Cohen Memorial Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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