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Rob and Molly Cohen Family Foundation at a glance

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Rob and Molly Cohen 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.

$435k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$250k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$3.0MHuman Services$355kRecreation & Sports$170kReligion$70kYouth Development$62kHousing & Shelter$10kHealth$10kInternational$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $175k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$8k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER FOUNDATION$250,000
JUDIS HOUSE$75,000
CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC$50,000
COLORADO DREAM FOUNDATON$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 58% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY: $50k → 12%GLOBAL MOUNTAIN FUND INC: $5k → 14%JUDIS HOUSE: $75k → 8%UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION: $100k → 9%URBAN PEAK DENVER: $10k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC: $50k → 13%GLOBAL WATER CHALLENGE: $5k → 7%JUDIS HOUSE: $75k → 8%UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION: $30k → 9%MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD CATHOLIC PARISH: $50k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC: $50k → 13%JUDIS HOUSE: $75k → 8%UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION: $30k → 9%MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD CATHOLIC PARISH: $7k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC: $50k → 13%JUDIS HOUSE: $75k → 8%MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD CATHOLIC PARISH: $7k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC: $50k → 13%MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD CATHOLIC PARISH: $7k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC: $50k → 13%JUDIS HOUSE: $50k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC: $50k → 13%NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $10k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC: $50k → 13%JUDIS HOUSE: $5k → 12%I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION - COLORADO: $25k → 12%COLORADO DREAM FOUNDATON: $10k → 12%COLORADO DREAM FOUNDATON: $10k → 12%I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION - COLORADO: $6k → 12%I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION - COLORADO: $6k → 12%COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $5k → 12%I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION - COLORADO: $5k → 12%UPSTREAM IMPACT: $5k → 12%BICYCLE COLORADO: $5k → 12%BICYCLE COLORADO: $5k → 12%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 6 repeat orgs$100k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
8

Total granted

$3.2M
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+13%

Still filing today

83%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterEnvironmentHealthOther
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

  • MS
    METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +129%
  • JH
    JUDI'S HOUSE INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $355k · revenue +59%
  • US
    UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2024 · $160k · revenue +111%

Funded once

  • UP
    URBAN PEAK DENVERgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +127%
  • NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +13%
  • GW
    GLOBAL WATER CHALLENGEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +390%
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.

1
University of Denver

The university of denver (du) is a higher educational institution, providing both undergraduate and graduate degrees - the mission of the university of denver is to promote learning by engaging with students (continued on schedule o)in…

Education
2
Center for Improving Value in Health Care

To equip partners and communities in colorado and across the nation with the resources, services and unbiased data needed to improve health and health care. we help communities, organizations and individuals identify opportunities to…

Health
3
Denver Scholarship Foundation

Denver scholarship foundation (dsf) inspires and empowers denver public schools (dps) students to enroll in and graduate from postsecondary institutions of higher education by providing the tools, knowledge, and financial resources for…

Education
4
Colorado Health Institute
Health
5
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
6
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
7
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
8
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
10
Metropolitan Denver Homeless Initiative Inc

Mission: leading and advancing collaboration to end homelessness in our region. vision: dedicated to everyone in the metro region having a safe, stable place to call home. values: committed to core values that bring people home: -…

Housing & Shelter
11
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…

Science & Tech
12
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Colorado Nonprofit Development Center; the most unlike its peers is University of Notre Dame du Lac. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER FOUNDATION INC: $2,547,625 · EducationMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER FOUNDATION INCUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $350,000 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac+2 more: $60,000 · EducationJUDI'S HOUSE INC: $355,000 · PhilanthropyJUDI'S HOUS…+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION: $160,000 · Recreation & SportsMOST PRECIOUS BLOOD CATHOLIC PARISH: $70,000 · OtherCOLORADO DREAM FOUNDATION: $62,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DENVER - DIVISION OF ATHLETIC & RECR: $5,000 · OtherUPSTREAM IMPACT: $5,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DENVER - DIVISION OF ATHLETICS & REC: $5,000 · OtherURBAN PEAK DENVER: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $10,000 · HealthGLOBAL WATER CHALLENGE: $5,000 · EnvironmentTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $5,000 · Community Improvement
Education$2,957,625Philanthropy$360,000Recreation & Sports$160,000Other$147,000Housing & Shelter$10,000Health$10,000Environment$5,000Community Improvement$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER FOUNDATION INC: $2,547,625 over 7y, 6.0% of budgetJUDI'S HOUSE INC: $355,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $350,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION: $160,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO DREAM FOUNDATION: $62,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetCreighton University: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN PEAK DENVER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBICYCLE COLORADO: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL WATER CHALLENGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GLOBAL MOUNTAIN FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUPSTREAM IMPACT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

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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 Rob and Molly Cohen Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rob and Molly Cohen Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 16 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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