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S Robert and Joy W Cohen Charitable 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.

$75k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$28kHousing & Shelter$25kHuman Services$21kHealth$20kRecreation & Sports$1kInternational$1kPhilanthropy$985Food & Nutrition$600Other$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $56k
$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAKON-JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES$25,000
GDP AYURVEDIC UNIVERSITY$20,000
CHABAD OF SOUTH AUSTIN$10,800
SHALOM AUSTIN$5,000
ADVOCATES HOUSE OF PRAYER$4,000
CHOSEN PEOPLE MINISTRIES$3,000
MESSIANIC JEWISH ALLIANCE OF AMERICA$2,000
CHABAD OF AUSTIN$1,000
REVIVAL FOUNDATION INC$1,000
JLF TEXAS$1,000
CEDAR PARK FRIENDS ASSOCIATION$1,000
CONGREGATION AGUDAS ACHIM SYNAGOGUE$500
MEALS ON WHEELS AUSTIN$500
CITIZENS UNITED FOUNDATION$124
CONVENTION OF AMERICAN STATES$100
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Jewish Foundation for Group Homes: $14k → 8%Jewish Foundation for Group Homes: $4k → 8%Jewish Foundation for Group Homes: $2k → 8%Jewish Foundation for Group Homes: $999 → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
PA
NJ
MD
AZ
DC
TX
FL
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 field
04the grantee network

5 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. 5 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
1/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAKON-JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES: $25,000 · OtherMAKON-JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMESGDP AYURVEDIC UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · OtherGDP AYURVEDIC UNIVERSITYCHABAD OF SOUTH AUSTIN: $10,800 · OtherCHABAD OF SOUTH AUSTINADVOCATES HOUSE OF PRAYER: $4,000 · OtherADVOCATES HOUSE OF PRAYERCHOSEN PEOPLE MINISTRIES INC: $3,000 · Other+13 more: $8,493 · Other+13 moreJEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC: $21,247 · Human ServicesJEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GR…SHALOM AUSTIN: $5,000 · PhilanthropyREVIVAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · InternationalFeeding America: $100 · Food & Nutrition
Other$71,293Human Services$21,247Philanthropy$5,000International$1,000Food & Nutrition$100

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 budgetJEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC: $21,247 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSHALOM AUSTIN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREVIVAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCitizens United Foundation: $124 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC ↗
  • Who funds SHALOM AUSTIN ↗
  • Who funds REVIVAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Citizens United Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY11.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 S Robert and Joy W Cohen Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from S Robert and Joy W Cohen Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 22 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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