· Private foundation
Peter & Elizabeth Cohn Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| BALLET X | $25,000 |
| NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY | $25,000 |
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| WILD BIRD FUND | $5,000 |
| OAKWOOD SCHOOL ADVANCEMENT OFFICE | $5,000 |
| BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE | $5,000 |
| CITY YEAR LOS ANGELES | $5,000 |
| SHE RECOVERS FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| CENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES | $2,500 |
| MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC | $2,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON | $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 (FY17–25, $162k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% 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 +27% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
49 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
The Trustees of Princeton University9× · 2017–2025 · $500k · revenue +5%- TNThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations9× · 2017–2025 · $226k · revenue +76%
- BBALLETX9× · 2017–2025 · $163k · revenue +158%
Funded once
- VIVETPAW INCone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -15%
- RTRISING TREETOPS AT OAKHURSTone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +8%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELESgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +28%
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
How this is measured
47 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. 47 of the 77 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 The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds BALLETX ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE AGED INC ↗
- Who funds THE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PABLOVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WILD BIRD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Defenders of Wildlife ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF WAYNE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SHE RECOVERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COPE ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON MEN'S CHORUS INC ↗
- Who funds Larkin Street Youth Services ↗
- Who funds HEATH VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds VETPAW INC ↗
- Who funds RISING TREETOPS AT OAKHURST ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Peter & Elizabeth Cohn Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Peter & Elizabeth Cohn Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Center for Coastal Studies Inc: 26% of income from government
- City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- Bayhealth Foundation Corporation: 4% of income from government
- Harry K Foundation: 2% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
- Heath Village Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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