· Private foundation
Robert & Terri Cohn Family 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 $10k25 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $285k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MPN Resarch Foundation | $47,000 |
| Jazz Artists Resource | $41,000 |
| AmplifyMO | $25,000 |
| Elyssas Mission Nfp | $22,000 |
| Glaucoma Research Foundation | $21,000 |
| Hadley Institute for the Blind and Visually Impaired | $21,000 |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc | $16,000 |
| Vincent Gray Academy | $15,000 |
| Juvenile Protective Association | $13,000 |
| Northwestern University | $12,500 |
| Live The Spirit Residency | $11,000 |
| Lift for Life Gym | $10,500 |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $10,000 |
| Weill Medical College of Cornell Univ | $10,000 |
| Illini Media Company | $10,000 |
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, $96k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
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.
61 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 9 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
- EMElyssas Mission NFP5× · 2020–2024 · $111k · revenue +99%
- GRGLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $108k · revenue +74%
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY5× · 2020–2024 · $65k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- BWBe Well Cafeone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +1%
- NINORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +149%
- THTHE HARP GUITAR FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -38% · 43% of their budget
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.
The music institute of chicago ("music institute") leads people toward a lifelong engagement with music, by providing widely accessible resources for high quality music teaching, performing, and service activities.
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
We are chicago's jesuit, catholic university - a diverse community seeking god in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith.
The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…
The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
We believe in the life-changing, transformational, revelatory power of great art and opera. Lyric Opera of Chicago exists to provide a broad, deep, and relevant cultural service to the Chicago region and the nation, and to advance the…
To spark curiosity and creativity in all young children through positive, play-based learning experiences.
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
The chicago high school for the arts (chiarts) develops the next generation of diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory…
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hogs for Heroes Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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 12% 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.
65 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. 65 of the 94 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 Jazz Artists Resource ↗
- Who funds THE MPN RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Elyssas Mission NFP ↗
- Who funds GLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds MARION DOWNS CENTER ↗
- Who funds JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LIVE THE SPIRIT RESIDENCY ↗
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds HADLEY INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds Lift for Life Gym Inc ↗
- Who funds Elea Institute ↗
- Who funds NONOP INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds Hogs for Heroes Inc ↗
- Who funds FULCRUM POINT NEW MUSIC PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CANCER WELLNESS CENTER ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Gateway to the Great Outdoors ↗
- Who funds Vincent Gray Academy ↗
- Who funds THE 7TH GRADE POETRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ILLINI MEDIA COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Be Well Cafe ↗
- Who funds OUR PLACE OF NEW TRIER TOWNSHIP ↗
- Who funds American Liver Foundation ↗
- Who funds Butler University ↗
- Who funds NOURISHING HOPE ↗
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: The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Healthcare Foundation of Highland Park · Trustmark Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Baxter International Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Donald & Patricia Manhard Charitable Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Dr Scholl Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation
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 Robert & Terri Cohn Family 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.
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.
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