· Private foundation
Martin D Cohen Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k37 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER LV | $17,500 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF LEHIGH VALLEY | $12,500 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF LEHIGH VALLEY | $12,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| COHEN FEELEY ALTEMOSE & RAMBO PC | $7,670 |
| BALLET GUILD OF LEHIGH VALLEY | $5,863 |
| QUAKERTOWN FOOD PANTRY | $5,371 |
| BETHLEHEM TOWNSHIP COMMUNITY CENTER | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTHAMPTON COUNTY | $5,000 |
| LVHN REILLY CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| BNAI SHALOM | $3,630 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–24, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% 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 +35% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
57 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AFARTSQUEST FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $20k · revenue +110%
- FOFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $3k · revenue +36%
- NBNEW BETHANY INC2× · 2020–2021 · $3k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- SLST LUKE'S SCHOOL OF NURSINGone grant, 2023 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $5k
- PSPENN STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $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.
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.
Jewish family service of the lehigh valley, guided by jewish values, helps individuals and families to live healthier, more stable lives by providing social services, professional counseling, education, and community programs. our vision…
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
To provide educational, informational, cultural, and recreational services to the public. services are provided in bethlehem, pennsylvania and its supporting communities.
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…
We heal, comfort, and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value supported by education and clinical research.
To enhance the quality of life, health, and well-being of jewish older adults, their families, and others in our community, consistent with the values and traditions of our jewish heritage.
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.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
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…
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…
To improve the economy and quality of communities in the lehigh valley metropolitan area.
How this is measured
65 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 65 of the 184 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY ↗
- Who funds ARTSQUEST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF EASTON INC ↗
- Who funds QUAKERTOWN FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW BETHANY INC ↗
- Who funds WESTCOAST BLACK THEATRE TROUPE OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE OF NORTHAMPTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ATHLIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MORAVIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
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: United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · Air Products Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation · Sylvia Perkin Perpetual Charitable Trust · Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust · The Century Fund Trust · Harry C Trexler Estate · John a and Margaret Post Foundation · Frederick H Bedford Jr & Margaret S Bedford Charitable Foundation · St Luke's Hospital of Bethlehem Pa
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Martin D Cohen Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Martin D Cohen Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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