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· Private foundation
MARTIN D COHEN FAMILY FOUNDATION
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$112k
Granted FY2024
40
Grants
4
Communities
$18k
Largest
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 82% of MARTIN D COHEN FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2020
hellertowntemplescholarshipsallentownrescuehistoryliteracy
2021
sarasotamuseumboys girlsscholarshipbest
2022
pennchildrenleaguescholarshipnorthampton
2023
lehigh vallluke's nursingdramawilsonhabitat humanityhumanity lehighnorthampton
2024
specialscholarshipnorthamptonbethlehemquakertown
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 40 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k37 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$539k
Total assets
Largest grants
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER LV$17,500
- JEWISH FEDERATION OF LEHIGH VALLEY$12,500
- BEST SCHOLARS$10,000
- COHEN FEELEY ALTEMOSE & RAMBO PC$7,670
- BALLET GUILD OF LEHIGH VALLEY$5,863
- QUAKERTOWN FOOD PANTRY$5,371
- LVHN REILLY CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$5,000
- SPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTHAMPTON COUNTY$5,000
- JFS SCOLARSHIPS$5,000
- BETHLEHEM TOWNSHIP COMMUNITY CENTER$5,000
- AIDEN COMPTON$4,000
- BNAI SHALOM$3,630
- UNITED AUTO WORKERS$3,000
- JACKSON GILMAN$2,500
- ARTSQUEST FOUNDATION$2,500
02The need
04
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 8%. 98% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$423k · 57 repeat orgs$148k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
57
108
Total granted
$423k
$116k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+35%
+11%
Still filing today
32%
29%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesFood & NutritionAnimalsOther
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- QFQUAKERTOWN FOOD PANTRY3× · 2022–2024 · $14k · revenue +87%
- FOFOLDS OF HONOR2× · 2022–2023 · $3k · revenue +115%
- MLMIRACLE LEAGUE OF NORTHAMPTON COUNTY2× · 2020–2022 · $3k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- SLST LUKE'S SCHOOL OF NURSINGone grant, 2023 · $25k
- PSPENN STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $5k
- RSROOSEVELT SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $4k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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Allentown Economic Development
To proactively identify, encourage, and develop business opportunities for the lehigh valley.
Community Improvement
2
Pennsylvania College of Art & Design
Pennsylvania college of art & design is a professional art college offering a bfa degree, certificates, credentials, and curricula that enable students of all ages to pursue art as their life's work.
Education
3
Community Action Committee
The mission of the community action committee of the lehigh valley is to improve the quality of life in the lehigh valley by building a community in which all people have access to economic opportunity, the ability to pursue that…
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4
Valley Community Library
Public lending library
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5
Lehigh Valley Economic
The mission of the lehigh valley economic development corporation is to market the economic assets of the lehigh valley and to create partnerships to support the recruitment, growth, and retention of employers and the creation of jobs for…
Community Improvement
6
Lehigh Valley Academy Regional
The mission of the lehigh valley academy regional charter school, a fully authorized, dynamic k-12 ib world school, is to educate all students through best learning practices and innovative teaching strategies to be responsible…
Education
7
Hillel At Dartmouth College
The mission of dartmouth hillel is to enhance jewish life for the community at dartmouth college. hillel creates opportunities for all jewish students at dartmouth college to develop their own jewish interests and to participate in a…
Youth Development
8
Philadelphia Legal Assistance Center
Enforcing and protecting the rights of individuals and families.
Crime & Legal
9
Adamstown Area Library
The mission of the adamstown library is to maintain and improve the quality of life in our community by providing access to cultural, intellectual, and informational resources and programs to promote life-long learning for all ages. the…
Education
10
B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation At Queens
Queens college hillel's mission is to create meaningful jewish experiences that enrich the lives of jewish students and encourage them to make an enduring commitment to jewish life, learning, and israel.
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11
Levite Jewish Community Center
The mission of the levite jewish community center is to enhance jewish identity by providing programs and activities that promote cultural enrichment, cultivate educational development and provide for the well-being of its members.
Human Services
12
League of Women Voters of New Jersey
A nonpartisan organization empowering voters and defending democracy.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Home of Easton Inc and the most unlike its peers is Moravian University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
0.0%0/55
the rest of the field
9%
2,640/28,949
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
05the grantee network
51 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/51
Grantees still filing
33/51
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$476,872Youth Development$28,579Arts & Culture$25,400Food & Nutrition$16,591Human Services$13,250Education$6,650Crime & Legal$4,250
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Lehigh Valley Community FoundationPA54× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Air Products Foundation · Ppl Foundation · The Century Fund Trust · Harry C Trexler Estate · Sylvia Perkin Perpetual Charitable Trust · The Rider-Pool Foundation · John a and Margaret Post Foundation · Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust · Frederick H Bedford Jr & Margaret S · Lutron Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation MARTIN D COHEN FAMILY FOUNDATION funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ARTSQUEST FOUNDATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~42 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 200652958 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on ARTSQUEST FOUNDATION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 42 months of cash on hand.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 9% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Martin D Cohen Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Martin D Cohen Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines