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Mark and Virginie Cohen Family Foundation at a glance

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Mark and Virginie Cohen Family Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$23k
Granted FY2020
13
Grants FY2020
5
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Religion$184kInternational$43kEducation$41kScience & Tech$12kHealth$2kPhilanthropy$1kArts & Culture$200Other$0
02FY2020 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,800
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Jewish Heritage Programs$5,401
Individual grant recipient$2,800
SEPHACADEMY$2,600
STAND WITH US$1,800
WIZO$1,800
Individual grant recipient$1,800
HEBREW ACADEMY OF MIAMI$1,800
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR$1,690
Individual grant recipient$1,470
CHARIDY$1,101
CHABAD$497
UJA FEDERATION$180
THE CELL THEATRE$100
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%LUNG CANCER RESEARCH: $2k → 8%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENN: $15k → 22%STAND WITH US: $2k → 14%ONE ISRAEL FUND: $5k → 6%YAD ELIEZER: $25k → 20%GIFT OF LIFE BONE MARROW: $2k → 11%CHARIDY: $1k → 13%SEPHACADEMY: $3k → 15%Yeshiva Bais Matityahu: $5k → 13%Congregation BIAV: $18k → 5%LUNG CANCER RESEARCH: $2k → 8%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENN: $15k → 22%STAND WITH US: $2k → 14%UJA FEDERATION: $540 → 6%YAD ELIEZER: $13k → 20%GIFT OF LIFE BONE MARROW: $600 → 11%HEBREW ACADEMY OF MIAMI: $2k → 15%LUNG CANCER RESEARCH: $2k → 8%Jewish Heritage Programs: $5k → 22%GATEWAYS: $25k → 17%KOLEL BEIS YECHIEL: $5k → 20%Jewish Heritage Programs: $4k → 22%GATEWAYS: $10k → 17%KOLEL BEIS YECHIEL: $5k → 20%Jewish Heritage Programs: $2k → 22%SINAI TEMPLE: $5k → 6%FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCE: $10k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR: $15k → 20%Jewish Heritage Programs: $726 → 22%CENTRAL FUND: $5k → 17%BONEI OLAM ORG: $5k → 20%FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCE: $1k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR: $2k → 20%WIZO: $2k → 17%BONEI OLAM ORG: $1k → 20%GIFTS UNDER 1000: $5k → 17%GIFTS UNDER 1000: $5k → 17%GIFTS UNDER 1000: $2k → 17%CONGREGATION KEHILATH: $17k → 17%CONGREGATION KEHILATH: $6k → 17%CONGREGATION KEHILATH: $6k → 17%CONGREGATION KEHILATH: $3k → 17%LUBAVITCH: $4k → 17%THE RAMAZ SCHOOL: $2k → 17%CHABAD: $5k → 17%CHABAD: $1k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MIGDAL OHR: $20k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MIGDAL OHR: $540 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$218k · 17 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2020, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
6

Total granted

$218k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+110%

Still filing today

35%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
InternationalYouth DevelopmentReligionPhilanthropyOther
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 Migdal OHR
    2× · 2017–2018 · $21k · revenue +102%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC
    2× · 2018–2020 · $17k · revenue +72%
  • JH
    Jewish Heritage Programs
    4× · 2017–2020 · $12k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $18k
  • ST
    SINAI TEMPLE
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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.

1
University of Judaism Foundation
—
2
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
3
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Sherit Isroel
—
5
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
6
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
7
American Friends of Even Yisroel Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Dorot Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Jewish Year Abroad

To provide an education based program in israel for college age jewish young adults that will instill students with a sense of purpose, commitment & pride about

International
10
Connect Israel

Connect israel is a life-long program that aims to strengthen the gap between american jews and israelis through business, creative teamwork, and developing personal relationships.

International
11
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
12
Bronfman Youth Fellowships to Israel in Inc
Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Israel Fund Ltd; the most unlike its peers is Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania. 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

8 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. 8 of the 28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YAD ELIEZER: $38,200 · OtherYAD ELIEZERGATEWAYS: $35,000 · OtherGATEWAYSIndividual grant recipient: $32,291 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $18,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGIFTS UNDER 1000: $11,750 · OtherGIFTS UNDER 1000Individual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $6,830 · OtherCHABAD: $6,637 · Other+12 more: $36,501 · Other+12 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC: $16,690 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIE…FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $11,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF TH…ONE ISRAEL FUND LTD: $5,000 · InternationalONE ISRAEL FU…ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $3,600 · InternationalISRAEL EMERGE…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $30,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF…American Friends of Migdal OHR: $20,540 · Youth DevelopmentJewish Heritage Programs: $12,027 · ReligionUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $1,220 · Philanthropy
Other$195,209International$36,290Education$30,000Youth Development$20,540Religion$12,027Philanthropy$1,220

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Migdal OHR: $20,540 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC: $16,690 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Heritage Programs: $12,027 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetONE ISRAEL FUND LTD: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $3,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $1,220 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
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 TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds American Friends of Migdal OHR ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Heritage Programs ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds ONE ISRAEL FUND LTD ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    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.

    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 28 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2021) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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