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The Albert and Shirley Cohen Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

The Albert and Shirley Cohen Foundation Inc

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.

$3k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$8kReligion$4kHuman Services$2kArts & Culture$1kFood & Nutrition$400International$300Civil Rights$100Youth Development$100Other$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100
Median grant
4
States reached
$7k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WOMENS EMERGENCY NETWORK$2,200
JEWISH CURRENTS$135
JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES$100
MACULAR DEGENERATION RESEARCH$100
SALVATION ARMY$100
02The need
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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 (FY17–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%KIDS IN DISTRESS: $100 → 13%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $100 → 14%KIDS IN DISTRESS: $100 → 13%JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $150 → 15%KIDS IN DISTRESS: $100 → 13%KIDS IN DISTRESS: $100 → 13%JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $100 → 15%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $100 → 17%JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $200 → 15%JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $100 → 15%JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $100 → 15%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

IL
NY
MA
OH
CA
VA
MD
TN
DC
GA
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14k · 14 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
13

Total granted

$14k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
+34%

Still filing today

64%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 & CultureInternationalFood & NutritionHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • WE
    WOMENS EMERGENCY NETWORK INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $5k · revenue +318%
  • TU
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    7× · 2017–2023 · $700 · revenue +25%
  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $650 · revenue +91%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CHILDRENS TRUST
    one grant, 2019 · $400
  • FI
    FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2019 · $100 · revenue +14%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $100
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
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
2
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
3
Jewelers of America Inc

Jewelers of america, the most trusted and influential voice of the jewelry industry, empowers and unites its members through expert guidance and advocacy, driving excellence, integrity, and success in an ever-changing marketplace.

—
4
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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5
The Jewish Women's Archive Inc

The jewish women's archive documents jewish women's stories, elevates their voices, and inspires them to be agents of change.jwa is dedicated to expanding and transforming the historical narrative by restoring jewish women and gender…

Arts & Culture
6
American Cancer Society Inc

Improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.

Health
7
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
8
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
9
Network of Jewish Human Service Agencies Inc

The network is an international membership association of more than 170 non profit human service agencies in the united states, canada and israel. its members provide a full range of human services for the jewish community and beyond,…

Human Services
10
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
11
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

Joint Commission evaluates and accredits health care organizations and programs across the United States to ensure compliance with rigorous standards of quality and safety, including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 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

16 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. 16 of the 27 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
14/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WOMENS EMERGENCY NETWORK INC: $5,450 · OtherWOMENS EMERGENCY NETWORK INCGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDE: $3,500 · OtherGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDEPARALYZED VETS OF AMERICA: $600 · OtherSALVATION ARMY: $500 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD FED OF AME: $450 · OtherTHE CHILDRENS TRUST: $400 · Other+8 more: $950 · Other+8 moreThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $700 · Arts & CultureThe Unite…ASSOCIATION FOR PROMOTION OF JEWISH SECULARISM INC: $470 · Arts & CultureASSOCIATI…COLUMBUS JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $100 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBUS …JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $650 · Human ServicesJEWISH CO…KIDS IN DISTRESS INC: $400 · Human ServicesKIDS IN D…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $100 · Human ServicesWOUNDED W…MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $100 · Human ServicesMOUNT SIN…BELIEVE IN A CURE INC: $600 · HealthFeeding America: $300 · Food & NutritionCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $200 · InternationalFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $100 · InternationalOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC: $100 · Community ImprovementAMERICAN MACULAR DEGENERATION GOEHRING: $50 · Philanthropy
Other$11,850Arts & Culture$1,270Human Services$1,250Health$600Food & Nutrition$300International$300Community Improvement$100Philanthropy$50

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 budgetWOMENS EMERGENCY NETWORK INC: $5,450 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $650 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBELIEVE IN A CURE INC: $600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR PROMOTION OF JEWISH SECULARISM INC: $470 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS IN DISTRESS INC: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDISCOVERY EYE FOUNDATION: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBUS JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMid-Ohio Foodbank: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN MACULAR DEGENERATION GOEHRING: $50 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.

Ann and Ari Deshe Fou…Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Ann and Ari Deshe FoundationFL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ann and Ari Deshe Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Albert and Shirley Cohen Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Albert and Shirley Cohen Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Jewish Community Services of South Florida Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Kids in Distress Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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 · 0–25%
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 27 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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