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The Abby & David Cohen Family Foundation at a glance

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The Abby & David Cohen Family Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$5.7M
Granted FY2026still arriving
2
Grants FY2026still arriving
1
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$1.3MSocial Science$325kArts & Culture$229kReligion$214kInternational$143kHealth$22kHuman Services$2kYouth Development$1kOther$0
02FY2026 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $36,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $5,722,381 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,686,381 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $35k
$35,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Metropolitan Opera Association Inc$35,000
Council on Foreign Relations Inc$1,000
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 (FY22–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%National Yiddish Book Center: $100k → 12%American Friends of Israel Intelligence Heritage: $2k → 14%Grenville Baker Boys & Girls Club: $1k → 6%Cornell University: $300k → 16%Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre Inc: $5k → 17%US Holocaust Memorial Museum: $10k → 14%American Friends of Israel Intelligence Heritage: $1k → 14%Cornell Hillel: $50k → 16%YIVO Institute for Jewish Research: $3k → 17%US Holocaust Memorial Museum: $10k → 14%Cornell Hillel: $25k → 16%Central Fund of Israel: $10k → 17%United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $10k → 14%Cornell University: $600k → 16%Roundabout Theatre Company: $6k → 17%The Brookings Institute: $200k → 14%Cornell University: $300k → 16%American Friends of Magen David Adom: $5k → 17%The Brookings Institute: $125k → 14%Friends of Yad Sarah: $1k → 17%Washington Institute for Near East Policy: $50k → 14%Jewish Theological Seminary of America: $136k → 17%The Washington Institute for Near East Policy: $50k → 14%Metropolitan Opera Association Inc: $35k → 17%The Washington Institute for Near East Policy: $25k → 14%Metropolitan Opera Association Inc: $35k → 17%Edlavitch Jewish Community Center of Washington DC: $2k → 14%Metropolitan Opera Association Inc: $35k → 17%Hillwood Estate Museum & Gardens: $5k → 14%Council on Foreign Relations Inc: $1k → 17%WNET: $3k → 17%American Friends of Rabin Medical Center: $1k → 17%American Museum of Natural History: $10k → 17%New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc: $10k → 17%NLI USA: $30k → 17%NLI USA: $25k → 17%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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 8 repeat orgs$308k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2026, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
16

Total granted

$1.9M
$307k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+0%
+22%

Still filing today

100%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25’26
Arts & CultureInternationalEducationHealthSocial ScienceYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • Cornell University
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +15%
  • WI
    WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY
    3× · 2022–2025 · $125k · revenue +22%
  • Metropolitan Opera Association Inc
    3× · 2023–2026 · $105k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • JT
    JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2023 · $136k
  • NY
    NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +22%
  • NY
    NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC
    one grant, 2025 · $10k · revenue -34%
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
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
2
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
3
Mesorah Heritage Foundation

The foundation's mission is to research, locate, translate, and create jewish religious, literary, biblical, and talmudic works for religious, scholarly and cultural purposes for the general public.

Arts & Culture
4
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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5
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History

The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…

Arts & Culture
6
The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association

For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…

Religion
7
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
8
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Middle East Media and Research Institute Inc

The middle east media research institute (memri) explores the middle east through its media, providing timely translations from arabic, farsi, urdu, pashtu, and turkish media and publishing original analysis of political, ideological,…

International
10
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
11
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
12
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yivo Institute for Jewish Research Inc; the most unlike its peers is Target Als Foundation Inc. 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

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 25 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)
24/24
Grantees still filing
15/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Cornell University: $1,200,000 · EducationCornell UniversityNLI USA INC: $55,000 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · EducationTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $325,000 · Social ScienceTHE BROOKINGS IN…Metropolitan Opera Association Inc: $105,000 · Arts & CultureMetropolitan …NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL YIDD…The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $30,000 · Arts & CultureThe United St…American Museum of Natural History: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $18,500 · Arts & Culture+4 moreJEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA: $136,000 · OtherJEWISH THEO…CORNELL HILLEL: $75,000 · OtherCORNELL HIL…+3 more: $5,600 · OtherWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $125,000 · InternationalCentral Fund of Israel: $10,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $5,000 · International+1 more: $1,000 · InternationalNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $10,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC: $1,000 · HealthAMERICAN FRIENDS OF RABIN MEDICAL CENTER: $1,000 · HealthYIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH INC: $3,000 · Religion
Education$1,265,000Social Science$325,000Arts & Culture$263,500Other$216,600International$141,000Health$12,000Religion$3,000

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 budgetCornell University: $1,200,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $325,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $125,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $105,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCORNELL HILLEL: $75,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetNLI USA INC: $55,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTARGET ALS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLWOOD ESTATE MUSEUM & GARDENS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOLKSBIENE YIDDISH THEATRE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL INTELLIG ENCE HERRITAGE AND COMMEMORATION CENTER: $2,800 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWNET: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF RABIN MEDICAL CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRENVILLE BAKER BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC: $1,000 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.

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 FundNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY15.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 The Abby & David Cohen Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Abby & David Cohen Family 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%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Abby & David Cohen Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 25 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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