Maryland · Private foundation
Naomi and Nehemiah Cohen Foundation
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.
- $5.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 79
- Grants FY2024
- 64
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,610,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 64 to 76
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 12
- Total assets, FY2024
- $96M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 11% of the organizations Naomi and Nehemiah Cohen Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 72 | $4.8M | 11% |
| FY2023 | 64 | $4.7M | 11% |
| FY2022 | 66 | $4.6M | 11% |
| FY2021 | 67 | $4.1M | 16% |
| FY2020 | 76 | $5.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hand in Hand American Friends of the Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Isra | $8,249,900 | 5 | 28% |
| Georgia Alliance Education Fund Inc | $650,000 | 5 | 30% |
| Bread for the City Inc | $625,000 | 5 | 2% |
| The DC Central Kitchen Inc | $600,000 | 5 | 1% |
| National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc | $550,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Coalition for DC Representation in Congress Education Fund | $500,000 | 5 | 21% |
| DC Fiscal Policy Institute Inc | $500,000 | 5 | 7% |
| Miriam's Kitchen | $450,000 | 5 | 1% |
| J Street Education Fund Inc | $427,500 | 5 | 1% |
| N Street Village Inc | $375,000 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 95 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($633k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Naomi and Nehemiah Cohen Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 93 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Tides Foundation · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · England Family Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Impactassetsinc · New Venture Fund · NEO Philanthropy Inc · The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc
How this is measured
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About Naomi and Nehemiah Cohen Foundation
- How much does Naomi and Nehemiah Cohen Foundation give?
- Naomi and Nehemiah Cohen Foundation reported 79 grants totaling $5,633,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 64 and 76 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Naomi and Nehemiah Cohen Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (38%), Public Benefit (14%), Civil Rights (11%).
- Who are Naomi and Nehemiah Cohen Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Hand in Hand American Friends of the Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Isra ($8.2M), Georgia Alliance Education Fund Inc ($650k), Bread for the City Inc ($625k).
- Does Naomi and Nehemiah Cohen Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Naomi and Nehemiah Cohen Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Naomi and Nehemiah Cohen Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Tides Foundation.
- Where is Naomi and Nehemiah Cohen Foundation based?
- Naomi and Nehemiah Cohen Foundation is based in MD.
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