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Martha M & Jonathan Cohen Family 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.

$176k
Granted FY2023
41
Grants FY2023
11
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$260kPhilanthropy$88kEducation$80kHealth$68kArts & Culture$18kEnvironment$2kRecreation & Sports$870Civil Rights$625Other$0
02FY2023 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 41 grants below total $112,146, the rows itemized in this filing. The $175,592 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $63,446 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k39 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$300
Median grant
11
States reached
$201k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$55,000
MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$30,000
CHABAD OF SHORT HILLS$5,928
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$4,300
AVODAH-D$3,000
NEW YORK CITY BALLET$2,216
CHABAD OF UES-ISRAELI CENTER$1,190
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDENS$910
THE METROPOLITAN MUSUM OF ART$810
ALZHEIMER'S$750
WHITNEY MUSEUM$575
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART$550
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITAL$540
US HOLOCAUST MUSEUM$540
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$500
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:

Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $536) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CARIDAD CENTER: $536 → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
NY
OR
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
AR
DC
FL
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.
$222k · 29 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2023, 6 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
37

Total granted

$222k
$43k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+17%

Still filing today

59%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
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

  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $88k · revenue +46%
  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
    4× · 2020–2023 · $64k · revenue +39%
  • RC
    RABBINICAL COLLEGE OF AMERICA
    2× · 2021–2022 · $10k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • CA
    CHABAD AT SHORT HILLS
    one grant, 2021 · $4k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
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
American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture
2
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
3
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History

The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…

Arts & Culture
4
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
5
The Contemporary Jewish Museum

The contemporary jewish museum (the cjm) makes the diversity of the jewish experience relevant for a twenty-first-century audience through innovative exhibitions and programs that educate, challenge, and inspire.

Arts & Culture
6
Philadelphia Museum of Art

The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…

Arts & Culture
7
National September 11 Memorial and Museum At the World Trade Center

The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…

Arts & Culture
8
New York Historical Society

The founding mission of the new-york historical society ("the new york historical "tnyh") is to collect, preserve, and interpret, for the broadest possible public, material relevant to the history of the united states in general and of new…

Arts & Culture
9
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
10
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
11
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
12
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Park Conservancy Inc; the most unlike its peers is Upper East Side Hatzolah Inc. 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

34 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. 34 of the 84 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/34
Grantees still filing
29/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $79,300 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIAICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $63,500 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAIRABBINICAL COLLEGE OF AMERICA: $10,000 · EducationRABBINICAL COLLEGE OF AMERICA+2 more: $680 · EducationUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $88,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERAT…Individual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE INC: $17,716 · OtherPARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE INCCHABAD OF SHORT HILLS: $10,496 · OtherCHABAD OF SHORT HILLSAVODAH-D: $4,000 · OtherCHABAD AT SHORT HILLS: $3,600 · Other+56 more: $28,256 · Other+56 moreNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $5,012 · Arts & CultureCHABAD OF SE MORRIS COUNTY INC: $2,300 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $1,865 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $1,747 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern Art: $1,600 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1,200 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $725 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $765 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $1,810 · EnvironmentTHE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC: $250 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF SHELBY PARK INC: $120 · EnvironmentCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $750 · Recreation & SportsAVODAH THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS INC: $500 · Community ImprovementCARNEGIE HILL NEIGHBORS INC: $250 · Community Improvement
Education$153,480Philanthropy$88,000Other$89,068Arts & Culture$15,214Environment$2,180Recreation & Sports$750Community Improvement$750

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $88,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $79,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $63,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRABBINICAL COLLEGE OF AMERICA: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $5,012 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHABAD OF SE MORRIS COUNTY INC: $2,300 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $1,865 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $1,810 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $1,747 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $1,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $725 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCaridad Center Inc: $572 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUpper East Side Hatzolah Inc: $550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC: $540 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $531 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIDER UNIVERSITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAVODAH THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHABAD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN INC: $463 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARNEGIE HILL NEIGHBORS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWAGNER COLLEGE: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF SHELBY PARK INC: $120 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOBALT ADVOCATES: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $72 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM: $65 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHRIVE YOUTH CENTER INC: $51 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY: $36 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $36 over 1y, 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 UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
  • Who funds RABBINICAL COLLEGE OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds CHABAD OF SE MORRIS COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds Caridad Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds Upper East Side Hatzolah Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC ↗
  • Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
  • Who funds RIDER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds AVODAH THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS INC ↗

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 FundNY12.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Martha M & Jonathan Cohen Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Martha M & Jonathan Cohen Family Foundation Inc. 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%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Rabbinical College of America: 5% of income from government
  • Caridad Center Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 84 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $171k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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