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Sam L Cohen Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
94
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$6.1MHuman Services$1.9MYouth Development$1.6MArts & Culture$1.5MEducation$1.5MPhilanthropy$1.4MCivil Rights$1.1MHousing & Shelter$1.0MOther$0
02FY2024 · 94 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $61k
  • $10k–50k70 grants · $1.4M
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $795k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHERN MAINE$250,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF SOUTHERN MAINE$125,000
MAINE PUBLIC$125,000
GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE$100,000
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN MAINE$80,000
MAINE CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE$65,000
YORK COUNTY SHELTER PROGRAMS INC$50,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND$50,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF SOUTHERN MAINE$50,000
PREBLE STREET$50,000
MAINE JEWISH MUSEUM$50,000
IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT$50,000
MAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION$45,000
MAINE FAMILY PLANNING$41,600
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHERN MAINE$40,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $50k → 7%HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $50k → 7%SOUTHERN MAINE AGENCY ON AGING: $30k → 7%HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $25k → 7%SOUTHERN MAINE AGENCY ON AGING: $25k → 7%HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $20k → 7%SWEETSER: $25k → 9%YORK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION CORPORATION: $35k → 9%YORK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION CORP: $25k → 9%CARING UNLIMITED: $25k → 9%CARING UNLIMITED CORP: $20k → 9%CARING UNLIMITED CORP: $20k → 9%CARING UNLIMITED CORP: $20k → 9%SOUTHERN MAINE AGENCY ON AGING: $40k → 9%SOUTHERN MAINE AGENCY ON AGING INC: $40k → 9%FURNITURE FRIENDS: $20k → 7%BIDDEFORD FOOD PANTRY: $30k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES MAINE: $35k → 7%HOPE ACTS: $25k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $125k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $125k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $50k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $50k → 7%MAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION: $50k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $45k → 7%MAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION: $45k → 7%PROSPERITYME: $40k → 7%PROSPERITYME: $40k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $40k → 7%THE GREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER: $40k → 7%GREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER: $35k → 7%EQUALITYMAINE FOUNDATION: $35k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $33k → 7%THE GREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER: $30k → 7%MAINE ACCESS IMMIGRANT NETWORK: $30k → 7%MAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION: $30k → 7%THE OPPORTUNITY ALLIANCE: $30k → 7%PROSPERITYME: $30k → 7%THE OPPORTUNITY ALLIANCE: $25k → 7%COMMUNITY FINANCIAL LITERACY: $25k → 7%THE GREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER: $25k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $25k → 7%MAINE ACCESS IMMIGRANT NETWORK: $20k → 7%THROUGH THESE DOORS: $20k → 7%THE OPPORTUNITY ALLIANCE: $35k → 7%THE OPPORTUNITY ALLIANCE: $25k → 7%THE OPPORTUNITY ALLIANCE: $25k → 7%THE OPPORTUNITY ALLIANCE: $25k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ME
VT
NH
NY
MA
CA
DC
HI
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$17M · 170 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +61% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

170 repeat relationships — 67 still active in FY2024, 103 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

170
113

Total granted

$17M
$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+24%

Still filing today

86%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $232k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • M
    MaineHealth
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +196%
  • JC
    Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine
    7× · 2017–2024 · $808k · revenue +97%
  • PS
    PREBLE STREET
    5× · 2018–2024 · $493k · revenue +174%

Funded once

  • CN
    CEDARS NURSING CARE CENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $500k · revenue +10%
  • YA
    YOUTH AND FAMILY OUTREACH
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +13%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SCHOOL OF LAW
    one grant, 2017 · $125k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Maine Media College

Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…

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2
Maine Donor Alliance Fund

To build a permanent and powerful progressive movement in Maine. We will promote a healthy, just, equitable democracy through research, engagement, and education of Maine's citizens. We will engage in democracy expansion, voter engagement,…

Education
3
Maine GearShare

To provide access to outdoor gear and know-how through a collaborative, equity-centered approach.

Recreation & Sports
4
Maine & Company

Maine & Company is a private, non-profit business development sales organization. Its purpose is to improve Maine's success in attracting new business and expanding and retaining existing business by providing a focused, statewide sales…

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5
Maine Afl-Cio

To promote and ensure workers' rights

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6
Fork Food Lab

Fork Food Lab is a nonprofit food business incubator and shared commercial kitchen focused on growing the local food economy. We support the growth of sustainable Maine-based businesses by providing entrepreneurs with work space,…

Environment
7
Maine Pretrial Services

Provide low-income defendants assistance in obtaining pretrial release and supervision.

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8
Autism Society of Maine d/b/a Asm

The Autism Society of Maine provides education and resources to support the valued lives of individuals on the autism spectrum and their families.

Human Services
9
Maine Arts Academy

The Academy is dedicated to academic excellence, commitment to the performing arts, leadership, integrity, and a virtuous code of conduct, all of which prepare students to meet the demands of a contemporary world through thoughtful…

Education
10
Maine Needs Inc

We strive to help individuals and families in Maine meet their basic, material needs by providing donated clothing, hygiene products, household items, and other necessities. We focus our work on those starting life over from scratch:…

Human Services
11
Maine Climate Action Now

MCAN catalyzes transformative education and action in response to the climate crisis. We seek to honor, unite and amplify the voices of youth, frontline communities, and others historically excluded from the climate conversation and…

Environment
12
Maine Health Access Foundation Inc
Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Grieving Children and the most unlike its peers is Finding Our Voices. 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 30 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%4%<5yr13%11%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr19%27%20–35yr14%23%35–55yr16%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%1%<5yr13%5%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr19%26%20–35yr14%21%35–55yr16%39%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%4/236
the rest of the field
10%
395/3,937

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.

04the grantee network

222 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. 222 of the 303 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
91
Early backer (in before they grew)
213/222
Grantees still filing
172/222
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MaineHealth — $3,330,000 · HealthMaineHealthCEDARS NURSING CARE CENTER — $500,000 · HealthCEDARS NURSING CARE CENTERPlanned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — $185,000 · Health+17 more — $951,623 · Health+17 moreMAINE CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE — $365,000 · OtherMAINE CHILDREN'S ALLIANCEGood Shepherd Food Bank — $305,000 · OtherIMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT — $230,000 · OtherYOUTH AND FAMILY OUTREACH — $250,000 · Other+103 more — $5,290,900 · Other+103 morePREBLE STREET — $492,500 · Human ServicesPREBLE STREETThe Opportunity Alliance — $272,500 · Human ServicesThe Opportunity …Hospice of Southern Maine — $165,000 · Human ServicesHospice of South…PROSPERITYME — $155,000 · Human ServicesPROSPERITYMESouthern Maine Agency on Aging — $155,000 · Human ServicesSouthern Maine A…YORK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION CORPORATION — $152,500 · Human ServicesYORK COUNTY COMM…MAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION — $140,000 · Human ServicesGREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER — $130,000 · Human ServicesEqualityMaine Foundation — $95,000 · Human Services+16 more — $971,805 · Human Services+16 morePORTLAND STAGE COMPANY — $265,000 · Arts & CultureMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation — $145,000 · Arts & CultureTREE OF LIFE FOUNDATION — $120,000 · Arts & CultureMaine Jewish Film Festival — $118,333 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND MAINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $90,000 · Arts & CultureINTERCULTURAL COMMUNITY CENTER — $85,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE — $81,800 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND OVATIONS — $65,000 · Arts & CultureSPACE Gallery — $60,500 · Arts & Culture+10 more — $355,340 · Arts & CultureJewish Community Alliance Southern Maine — $807,600 · PhilanthropyMaine Community Foundation Inc — $165,500 · PhilanthropyFoundation for Portland Public Schools — $118,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way Inc — $112,500 · PhilanthropyUniversity of Southern Maine Foundation — $55,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $50,000 · PhilanthropyBoys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine — $380,000 · Youth DevelopmentMy Place Teen Center Inc — $305,000 · Youth DevelopmentAPEX YOUTH CONNECTION — $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN — $73,000 · Youth DevelopmentMAINE BOYS TO MEN — $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Telling Room — $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentHARDY GIRLS HEALTHY WOMEN INC — $45,000 · Youth Development+2 more — $42,500 · Youth DevelopmentUNIVERSITY OF MAINE SCHOOL OF LAW FOUNDATION — $380,000 · EducationThe Foundation for Maine's Community Colleges — $175,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION — $75,000 · EducationMAINE ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN — $62,700 · EducationFRIENDS OF PORTLAND ADULT EDUCATION — $55,000 · EducationPortland Public Library — $50,000 · Education+8 more — $189,500 · Education
Health$4,966,623Other$6,440,900Human Services$2,729,305Arts & Culture$1,385,973Philanthropy$1,308,600Youth Development$1,040,500Education$987,200

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMaineHealth — $3,330,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Community Alliance Southern Maine — $807,600 over 7y, 6.2% of budgetCEDARS NURSING CARE CENTER — $500,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetPREBLE STREET — $492,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MAINE SCHOOL OF LAW FOUNDATION — $380,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine — $380,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetMAINE CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE — $365,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetMy Place Teen Center Inc — $305,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank — $305,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Opportunity Alliance — $272,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetPORTLAND STAGE COMPANY — $265,000 over 5y, 8.4% of budgetYOUTH AND FAMILY OUTREACH — $250,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetIMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT — $230,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — $185,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Foundation for Maine's Community Colleges — $175,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetMaine Community Foundation Inc — $165,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHospice of Southern Maine — $165,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMaine Equal Justice Partners — $160,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetPROSPERITYME — $155,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetSouthern Maine Agency on Aging — $155,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetYORK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION CORPORATION — $152,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $150,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation — $145,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION — $140,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetMAINE CENTER FOR ECONOMIC POLICY — $135,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetGREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER — $130,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetCOMMUNITY DENTAL — $130,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSpurwink Services Inc — $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTREE OF LIFE FOUNDATION — $120,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetMaine Jewish Film Festival — $118,333 over 8y, 12% of budgetFoundation for Portland Public Schools — $118,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetMAINE INITIATIVESINC — $116,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetWayside Food Programs — $115,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetUnited Way Inc — $112,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMILESTONE RECOVERY — $105,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MAINE FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetTEDFORD HOUSING — $100,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetLocker Project — $100,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetEqualityMaine Foundation — $95,000 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetHolocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine — $95,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetOASIS HEALTH NETWORK INC — $95,000 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetSEEDS OF HOPE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER — $91,000 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetCOMMONSPACE — $90,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetPORTLAND MAINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $90,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMid Coast Hunger Prevention Program — $85,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCARING UNLIMITED — $85,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetINTERCULTURAL COMMUNITY CENTER — $85,000 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetCatholic Charities Maine — $82,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budget
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 MaineHealth ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine ↗
  • Who funds CEDARS NURSING CARE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PREBLE STREET ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SCHOOL OF LAW FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine ↗
  • Who funds MAINE CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds My Place Teen Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds The Opportunity Alliance ↗
  • Who funds PORTLAND STAGE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH AND FAMILY OUTREACH ↗
  • Who funds IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Foundation for Maine's Community Colleges ↗
  • Who funds Maine Community Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Hospice of Southern Maine ↗
  • Who funds Maine Equal Justice Partners ↗
  • Who funds PROSPERITYME ↗
  • Who funds Southern Maine Agency on Aging ↗
  • Who funds YORK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation ↗
  • Who funds MAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION ↗
  • Who funds MAINE CENTER FOR ECONOMIC POLICY ↗
  • Who funds GREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY DENTAL ↗
  • Who funds Spurwink Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds TREE OF LIFE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Maine Jewish Film Festival ↗
  • Who funds Foundation for Portland Public Schools ↗
  • Who funds MAINE INITIATIVESINC ↗
  • Who funds Wayside Food Programs ↗
  • Who funds United Way Inc ↗
  • Who funds MILESTONE RECOVERY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MAINE FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Maine Community Found…Elmina B Sewall Found…John T Gorman Foundat…United Way IncSaco & Biddeford Savi…Simmons Foundation - …Fisher Charitable Fou…Virginia Hodgkins Som…Maine Health Access F…Davis Family Foundati…Bangor Savings Bank F…Onion Foundation
Maine Community Foundation IncME200.2× affinity187 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · United Way Inc · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Virginia Hodgkins Somers Foundation Inc · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Davis Family Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Onion 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 Sam L Cohen 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Upstander Project Inc — 33% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Society for the Preservation of New Engl — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
69report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Sam L Cohen Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Sam L Cohen Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 303 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home