· Private foundation
The Burton & Mindy Cohen Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $235k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $185k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOPEWORKS 'N CAMDEN | $83,400 |
| LIGUORI ACADEMY | $51,960 |
| JEVS HUMAN SERVICES | $50,000 |
| CRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICES (JFCS) | $30,000 |
| CHABAD OF PENN STATE | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| MERCY NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES | $30,000 |
| COLEL CHABAD | $25,000 |
| MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| GOLDEN SLIPPER CLUB | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $345k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $121k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LILIGUORI INC4× · 2022–2025 · $239k · revenue +95%
- JHJEVS HUMAN SERVICES5× · 2020–2025 · $230k · revenue +49%
- H'HOPEWORKS 'N CAMDEN INC4× · 2020–2023 · $223k · revenue +275%
Funded once
- OOOFFICE OF CATHOLIC EDUCATIONone grant, 2020 · $14k
- HPHOPE PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +51%
- FOFRIENDS OF OFANIMone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
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.
Heights is a new kind of organization, an economic mobility catalyst. we believe that creating pathways to educational and workforce success for low-income, black and brown, and first-generation-to-college students is the keystone of a…
To re-engage out-of-school youth with alternative educational programs and job connections, life skills training,counseling, media and technology skills
Cheder Chabad - Philadelphia educates boys and girls from nursery through 8th grade with a dual curriculum in Jewish and General Studies
The mesivta high school of greater philadelphia is a jewish orthodox boys' high school, educating students in grades 9-12 in torah and secular disciplines.
To empower young adults (17-20 year-olds) to develop skills and connect to opportunities by fostering an environment of love, support, and respect for their whole person. students graduate high school and successfully transition to college…
The mission of the philadelphia electrical and technology charter high school is to develop students who will be employable in the emeraging high-tech industries; while giving students a strong foundation in the core academic…
Philadelphia youth network (pyn) equips young people to build lifelong skills, pursue meaningful careers, and embrace change with confidence - so they can thrive in the workforce, experience economic mobility, and strengthen their…
The mission of the philadelphia education fund (pef) is to create equitable access to opportunities for students by providing resources and expertise that build paths to college and career success. pef focuses on philadelphia public school…
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
Jcs is a parent participation elementary school, collaboratively governed by parents and teachers designed to foster a lifelong love of learning and meaningful connection to hashem.
Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.
As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 21 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 LIGUORI INC ↗
- Who funds JEVS HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HOPEWORKS 'N CAMDEN INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GESU SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds HOPE PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Connelly Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Paul E Kelly Foundation · The Howley Foundation · The Maguire Foundation · Beatty Helen D Groome Uw · The Gordon Charter Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Burton & Mindy Cohen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Burton & Mindy Cohen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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