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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 FY2024still arriving
79
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$1.6M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

International$9.9MPublic Benefit$3.6MCivil Rights$2.8MPhilanthropy$2.6MHousing & Shelter$1.5MCommunity Improvement$1.0MEmployment$880kHealth$795kOther$0
02FY2024 · 79 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k31 grants · $680k
  • $50k–250k35 grants · $2.9M
  • $250k+2 grants · $2.0M
$30,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$96M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
GEORGIA ALLIANCE EDUCATION FUND INC$150,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON DC INC$150,000
NEW ISRAEL FUND$125,000
CHILDREN'S NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$105,000
DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC$100,000
DC VOTE$100,000
NEO PHILANTHROPY$100,000
J STREET EDUCATION FUND$100,000
MIRIAM'S KITCHEN$100,000
DC FISCAL POLICY INSTITUTE$100,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%STUDENT ORGANIZING INC: $50k → 16%TIDES CENTER: $10k → 10%STUDENT ORGANIZING INC: $50k → 16%STUDENT ORGANIZING INC: $20k → 16%STUDENT ORGANIZING INC: $15k → 16%STUDENT ORGANIZING INC: $15k → 16%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $100k → 14%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $100k → 14%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $100k → 14%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $75k → 14%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $75k → 14%PEACE BY TOURISM: $50k → 17%PEACE BY TOURISM: $25k → 17%PEACE BY TOURISM: $20k → 17%PEACE BY TOURISM: $20k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $25k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $10k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $10k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $10k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $10k → 17%DC ACTION: $60k → 14%DC ACTION FOR CHILDREN: $50k → 14%DC ACTION: $50k → 14%DC ACTION: $50k → 14%DC ACTION: $50k → 14%TIDES CENTER: $25k → 14%FAIR CHANCE: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
NY
MA
OR
OH
CA
VA
MD
DE
NC
DC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 14% of Naomi and Nehemiah Cohen Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Naomi and Nehemiah Cohen Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 34% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$22M · 78 repeat orgs$968k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

78
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Total granted

$22M
$658k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+17%

Still filing today

91%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $310k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsInternationalEducationCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • HI
    HAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA
    5× · 2020–2024 · $8.2M · revenue +68% · 28% of their budget
  • GA
    GEORGIA ALLIANCE EDUCATION FUND INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $650k · revenue +911% · 30% of their budget
  • BF
    BREAD FOR THE CITY INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $625k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • CASA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue +49%
  • CC
    COMMUNITY CHANGE
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
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.

04Its field

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.

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Council for Court Excellence

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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2
National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated

The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.

Community Improvement
3
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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4
Dc Policy Center

The mission of the d.c. policy center is to arm decision makers with fact-based, unbiased, and reliable research and analyses to help create a vibrant local economy that can maximize opportunities for residents, workers, and businesses in…

Public Benefit
5
American Israel Public Affairs Committee

To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.

International
6
Jews of Color Initiative

The Jews of Color Initiatives mission is to advance racial equity in the U.S. Jewish community by centering the leadership of Jews of Color and ensuring that our communities and institutions reflect the multiracial reality of the Jewish…

Civil Rights
7
Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.

Public Benefit
8
Washington Area Community Investment Fund Inc

The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven is driven by…

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9
Jewish Electorate Institute

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…

Civil Rights
10
Partnership for Public Service Inc

Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…

Employment
11
Center for International Policy Inc

The center for international policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable u.s. approach to foreign policy. through…

International
12
International Women's Forum Inc

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

106 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
105/106
Grantees still filing
71/106
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA: $8,249,900 · InternationalHAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CEN…NEW ISRAEL FUND: $667,000 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FUND+10 more: $457,000 · InternationalTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $600,000 · OtherTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INCN STREET VILLAGE INC: $375,000 · OtherTHE WASHINGTON LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $260,000 · OtherNEO Philanthropy Inc: $325,000 · OtherBREAD FOR THE CITY INC: $625,000 · OtherBREAD FOR THE CITY INCJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC: $427,500 · OtherJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INCJEWS UNITED FOR JUSTICE INC: $307,000 · OtherIMAGINE NORTH CAROLINA FIRST: $375,000 · Other+55 more: $4,426,000 · Other+55 moreTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $800,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH…GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $525,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER WA…JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $355,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FUN…PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $302,500 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL…BEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE: $297,500 · PhilanthropyBEND THE A…SPUR LOCAL INC: $120,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $110,000 · PhilanthropyNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $550,000 · Civil RightsNational …PROGEORGIA STATE TABLE INC: $350,000 · Civil RightsPROGEORGI…Fair Elections Center: $300,000 · Civil RightsFair Elec…VOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 · Civil RightsVOTO LATI…ROCK THE VOTE: $210,000 · Civil RightsROCK THE …COLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND: $150,000 · Civil RightsCOLOR OF …+6 more: $275,000 · Civil Rights+6 moreGEORGIA ALLIANCE EDUCATION FUND INC: $650,000 · EducationCOALITION FOR DC REPRESENTATION IN CONGRESS EDUCATION FUND: $500,000 · EducationPROTEUS FUND INC: $200,000 · EducationVIRGINIA NEW MAJORITY EDUCATION FUND: $175,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $125,000 · EducationMARINE CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE: $70,000 · Education+4 more: $112,500 · EducationDC FISCAL POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $500,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY FORKLIFT: $300,000 · Community ImprovementVIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC: $150,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY OF HOPE: $115,000 · Community ImprovementAVODAH THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS INC: $105,000 · Community ImprovementLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $100,000 · Community ImprovementJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $62,500 · Community ImprovementCIVICA INITIATIVES: $50,000 · Community ImprovementMIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $450,000 · Human ServicesDC ACTION FOR CHILDREN TODAY DC ACT: $260,000 · Human ServicesSTUDENT ORGANIZING INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesPEACE BY TOURISM INC: $115,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER: $75,000 · Human ServicesHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $65,000 · Human Services+1 more: $10,000 · Human Services
International$9,373,900Other$7,720,500Philanthropy$2,510,000Civil Rights$2,135,000Education$1,832,500Community Improvement$1,382,500Human Services$1,125,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA: $8,249,900 over 5y, 28% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $800,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $667,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGEORGIA ALLIANCE EDUCATION FUND INC: $650,000 over 5y, 30% of budgetBREAD FOR THE CITY INC: $625,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $600,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $550,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $525,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCOALITION FOR DC REPRESENTATION IN CONGRESS EDUCATION FUND: $500,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetDC FISCAL POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $500,000 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetMIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $450,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC: $427,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetN STREET VILLAGE INC: $375,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetIMAGINE NORTH CAROLINA FIRST: $375,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $355,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetPROGEORGIA STATE TABLE INC: $350,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $325,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJEWS UNITED FOR JUSTICE INC: $307,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $302,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FORKLIFT: $300,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetFair Elections Center: $300,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetVOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetBEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE: $297,500 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $260,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetDC ACTION FOR CHILDREN TODAY DC ACT: $260,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON DC INC: $250,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFriendship Place: $250,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetROCK THE VOTE: $210,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetEmgage Foundation Inc: $200,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetPROTEUS FUND INC: $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWashington Interfaith Network: $200,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetVIRGINIA NEW MAJORITY EDUCATION FUND: $175,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetSTATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT: $175,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC: $155,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY CLINIC INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC INC: $150,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetUNITY HEALTH CARE INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSTUDENT ORGANIZING INC: $150,000 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetMary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND: $150,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum: $140,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetALLIANCE FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE INC: $135,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetFood Research & Action Center: $125,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCoalition for Nonprofit Housing and: $125,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA: $125,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetCenter for Environmental Health: $125,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $125,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Greater Washington Co…The Morris and Gwendo…Tides FoundationEugene & Agnes E Meye…England Family Founda…Jewish Community Fede…ImpactassetsincNew Venture FundNEO Philanthropy IncThe Morningstar Phila…Amalgamated Charitabl…Wellspring Philanthro…
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC46.1× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Naomi and Nehemiah Cohen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Naomi and Nehemiah Cohen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • Community Clinic Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Casa Inc: 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 121 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home