Wisconsin · Private foundation
Melvin S Cohen Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 45
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $575,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 27
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $35M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Melvin S Cohen Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1000 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 43 | $1.5M | 65% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $1.5M | 7% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $1.7M | 37% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $1.7M | 54% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $1.6M | 52% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $586k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Center for Independent Thought | $1,290,000 | 6 | 12% |
| Free to Choose Network Inc | $975,000 | 6 | 6% |
| Prager University Foundation | $420,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Young America's Foundation | $367,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Zaka Tel-Aviv Inc | $175,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Le Phillips Senior Center Inc | $174,000 | 1 | 15% |
| Torah Academy of Minneapolis | $170,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Veritas Classical Academy Inc | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| America Gives Inc | $150,000 | 2 | 0% |
| America Israel Democracy Coalition | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Melvin S Cohen Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Melvin S Cohen Foundation Inc
- How much does Melvin S Cohen Foundation Inc give?
- Melvin S Cohen Foundation Inc reported 45 grants totaling $1,928,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 27 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Melvin S Cohen Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (31%), Health (14%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are Melvin S Cohen Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Center for Independent Thought ($1.3M), Free to Choose Network Inc ($975k), Prager University Foundation ($420k).
- Does Melvin S Cohen Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Melvin S Cohen Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Melvin S Cohen Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donors Trust Inc, L E Phillips Family Foundation Inc, Bradley Impact Fund Inc.
- Where is Melvin S Cohen Foundation Inc based?
- Melvin S Cohen Foundation Inc is based in WI.
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