· Private foundation
Richard & Patricia Cohn Family Foundation
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 $10k35 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Camp Newaygo | $13,290 |
| Ravinia Festival | $5,000 |
| KUEF | $2,800 |
| Temple Har Shalom | $2,075 |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $500 |
| Galapagos Conservancy | $400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $350 |
| Anti Defamation League | $300 |
| TrueNorth Food Pantry | $300 |
| Build Inc | $300 |
| Chicago Botanic Garden | $275 |
| North Shore Senior Center | $250 |
| Heifer International | $250 |
| Camp Nebagamon | $250 |
| JCC | $200 |
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, $93k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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 +37% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.
46 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 10 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCTRUENORTH COMMUNITY SERVICES9× · 2017–2025 · $91k · revenue +17%
RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +53%- BIBUILD INC8× · 2018–2025 · $4k · revenue +523%
Funded once
- PCProgressive Change Campaign Committone grant, 2017 · $1k
American Diabetes Associationone grant, 2017 · $300 · revenue -4%- CPCamp PI Art Centerone grant, 2019 · $300
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
The adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Lincoln park zoo is dedicated to connecting people with nature by providing a free, family-oriented wildlife experience in the heart of chicago and by advancing the highest quality of animal care, horticulture, education, science and…
Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…
National philanthropic trust ("npt") is a public charity dedicated to increasing philanthropy in society by providing philanthropic expertise to donors, foundations and financial institutions, enabling them to realize their philanthropic…
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
How this is measured
43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 91 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 TRUENORTH COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BUILD INC ↗
- Who funds GALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES ↗
- Who funds DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP NEBAGAMON ↗
- Who funds CAMP NEBAGAMON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SHORE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Equest Center for Therapeutic Riding Inc ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S DISEASE RESEARCH SOCIETY ↗
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: Modestus Bauer Foundation · First Bank Chicago Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Circle of Service Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Richard & Patricia Cohn Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard & Patricia Cohn Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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