· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k31 grants · $680k
- $50k–250k35 grants · $2.9M
- $250k+2 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN I | $1,610,500 |
| GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $375,000 |
| NATIONAL DOMESTIC WORKERS ALLIANCE | $200,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON | $175,000 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC | $160,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON DC INC | $150,000 |
| GEORGIA ALLIANCE EDUCATION FUND INC | $150,000 |
| NEW ISRAEL FUND | $125,000 |
| CHILDREN'S NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $105,000 |
| DC VOTE | $100,000 |
| NEO PHILANTHROPY | $100,000 |
| MIRIAM'S KITCHEN | $100,000 |
| DC FISCAL POLICY INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC | $100,000 |
| J STREET EDUCATION FUND | $100,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of Naomi and Nehemiah Cohen Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
78 repeat relationships — 64 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 8 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $310k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- HIHAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA5× · 2020–2024 · $8.2M · revenue +68% · 28% of their budget
- GAGEORGIA ALLIANCE EDUCATION FUND INC5× · 2020–2024 · $650k · revenue +911% · 30% of their budget
- BFBREAD FOR THE CITY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $625k · revenue +59%
Funded once
CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INCone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue 0%
CASA INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue +49%- CCCOMMUNITY CHANGEone grant, 2020 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.
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To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.
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Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.
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The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…
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The mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership worldwide. iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in three important ways. connect: our convenings provide networking and cutting-edge content…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Peace By Tourism Inc. 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.
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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
106 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 106 of the 121 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds HAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA ALLIANCE EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BREAD FOR THE CITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DC FISCAL POLICY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR DC REPRESENTATION IN CONGRESS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds MIRIAM'S KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds N STREET VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds IMAGINE NORTH CAROLINA FIRST ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds PROGEORGIA STATE TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWS UNITED FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds Fair Elections Center ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FORKLIFT ↗
- Who funds VOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds THE WASHINGTON LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds DC ACTION FOR CHILDREN TODAY DC ACT ↗
- Who funds Friendship Place ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON DC INC ↗
- Who funds ROCK THE VOTE ↗
- Who funds Emgage Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PROTEUS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Washington Interfaith Network ↗
- Who funds STATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA NEW MAJORITY EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC ↗
- Who funds COLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds STUDENT ORGANIZING INC ↗
- Who funds UNITY HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds EDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC INC ↗
- Who funds Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc ↗
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.
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
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 organization Naomi and Nehemiah Cohen 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.
- Community Clinic Inc — 16% of income from government
- Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
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 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.