· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Hadley Institute for the Blind and Visually Impaired | $21,000 |
| Glaucoma Research Foundation | $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 |
| Illini Media Company | $10,000 |
| Weill Medical College of Cornell Univ | $10,000 |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $10,000 |
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 (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 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.
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
How this is measured
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%
- THTHE HARP GUITAR FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -38% · 43% of their budget
DREAM BUILDERS 4 EQUITYone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +6%
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 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.
How this is measured
65 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. 65 of the 94 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 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 CANCER WELLNESS CENTER ↗
- Who funds FULCRUM POINT NEW MUSIC PROJECT ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Vincent Gray Academy ↗
- Who funds Gateway to the Great Outdoors ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Robert & Terri Cohn Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert & Terri Cohn Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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