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The Betsy & Alan D Cohn Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Betsy & Alan D Cohn Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$630k
Granted FY2025still arriving
168
Grants FY2025still arriving
17
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$535kEducation$351kHealth$178kPhilanthropy$137kRecreation & Sports$132kReligion$81kCivil Rights$50kFood & Nutrition$38kOther$0
02FY2025 · 168 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k146 grants · $243k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $337k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$1,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER$50,000
UJA FEDERATION OF NY$31,000
MACCABI USA$30,500
THE METROPOLITAN OPERA$25,000
TRINITY SCHOOL$23,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
COLUMBIA BUSINESS SCHOOL$20,000
ACLU FOUNDATION$19,800
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$19,500
TEMPLE EMANU-EL OF NEW YORK$15,000
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE FUND$15,000
THE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE$15,000
BARNARD COLLEGE$12,650
CONGREGATION EMANU-EL$11,000
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA$10,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%READY KIDS: $2k → 8%YWCA SILICON VALLEY: $2k → 8%READY KIDS: $2k → 8%YMCA SILICON VALLEY: $2k → 8%THE JEWISH BOARD: $1k → 17%THE JEWISH BOARD: $1k → 17%READY KIDS: $500 → 8%SHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY: $500 → 8%CITY OF PROMISE: $500 → 8%SHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY: $500 → 8%CITY OF PROMISE: $500 → 8%BOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $2k → 17%BOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $2k → 17%LUV MICHAEL: $600 → 17%LUV MICHAEL: $600 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
VA
AZ
SC
DC
LA
AL
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 156 repeat orgs$134k to everyone else

156 repeat relationships: 146 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

156
69

Total granted

$1.5M
$116k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+3%

Still filing today

67%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthEducationInternationalCivil RightsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • JA
    JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $145k · revenue +2%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $93k · revenue +19%
  • Northwestern University
    3× · 2022–2025 · $50k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • Cornell University
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +15%
  • TJ
    The Julliard School
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • S
    SAEPI
    one grant, 2024 · $9k
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
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
2
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
3
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
6
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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8
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
9
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
10
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
11
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
12
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wikimedia Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Jewish Foundation for Education of Women. 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

143 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. 143 of the 244 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
142/143
Grantees still filing
81/143
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Metropolitan Opera: $75,000 · OtherThe Metropolitan OperaNY Historical Society: $70,000 · OtherNY Historical SocietyTRINITY SCHOOL: $55,000 · OtherTRINITY SCHOOLManhattan Theater Club: $30,000 · OtherJEWISH FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION OF WOMEN: $30,000 · OtherThe Maxwell School: $30,000 · Other+126 more: $576,150 · Other+126 moreJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $145,350 · Arts & CultureJAZZ AT LINCOLN CEN…THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $40,000 · Arts & CultureTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT…New DramatistsInc: $20,000 · Arts & CultureNew DramatistsIncTHE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC: $12,000 · Arts & Culture+25 more: $78,350 · Arts & Culture+25 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $50,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTE…BARNARD COLLEGE: $28,850 · EducationBARNARD CO…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $25,000 · EducationTRUSTEES O…Cornell University: $20,000 · EducationCornell Un…BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $10,500 · EducationBRANDEIS U…+11 more: $22,900 · Education+11 moreMACCABI USA INC: $51,500 · Recreation & SportsNorthwestern University: $49,500 · Recreation & SportsCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsSERVING UP HOPE INC: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $3,500 · Recreation & SportsUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $92,600 · PhilanthropyFull Circle Fund: $15,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $5,500 · PhilanthropyTHE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE: $30,000 · HealthBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $19,250 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $7,000 · HealthCHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC: $7,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC: $4,150 · Health+5 more: $7,500 · HealthTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $16,000 · ReligionCongregation Beth Israel: $6,500 · Religion
Other$866,150Arts & Culture$295,700Education$157,250Recreation & Sports$129,500Philanthropy$113,100Health$94,900Religion$22,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $145,350 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $92,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMACCABI USA INC: $51,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $49,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION OF WOMEN: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $28,850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew DramatistsInc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCornell University: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $19,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFull Circle Fund: $15,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetTHE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSERVING UP HOPE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING WESTCHESTER INC: $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $8,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCongregation Beth Israel: $6,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMASTERS SCHOOL: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $5,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Virginia: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEmpower Work Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATRE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO JAZZ ORGANIZATION: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC: $4,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Playhouse: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEQUALITY VIRGINIA INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $3,600 over 2y, 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 JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds MACCABI USA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER ↗
  • Who funds THE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION OF WOMEN ↗
  • Who funds BARNARD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds New DramatistsInc ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds The Carnegie Hall Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds Full Circle Fund ↗
  • Who funds THE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds PEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC ↗

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.

Caplin FoundationCharlottesville Area …The Charles Fund IncThomas C & Mary Ann H…Perry Foundation IncManning Family Founda…United Way of Greater…The Genan FoundationThe Oak Hill FundThe Better Living Fou…The Watterson Foundat…Jewish Communal Fund
Caplin FoundationDE29.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Caplin Foundation · Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · The Charles Fund Inc · Thomas C & Mary Ann Hays Fam Char Tr · Perry Foundation Inc · Manning Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Charlottesville · The Genan Foundation · The Oak Hill Fund · The Better Living Foundation · The Watterson Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund

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 Betsy & Alan D Cohn Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Betsy & Alan D Cohn Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
32report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 Betsy & Alan D Cohn Foundation Inc 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 244 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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