· Private foundation
The Cohen Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $234k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHABAD OF CHARLESTON | $250,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $180,000 |
| CHARLESTON JEWISH FEDERATION | $54,000 |
| UGA MAGILL FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| KIDS ON POINT | $10,000 |
| CHABAD OF CHARLESTON | $10,000 |
| CHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| ASHLEY HALL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ADDLESTONE HEBREW ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| DORCHESTER CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTE | $10,000 |
| SYNAGOGUE EMANUEL | $5,360 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF SOUTH CAROLINA | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| STRAY DOG SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| ALPHA EPSILON PI FOUNDATION | $3,600 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–23, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +6% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- AHASHLEY HALL FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $40k · revenue +42%
- CSCHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +6%
- KOKIDS ON POINT INC3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $72k
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +36%
- MOMADISON OGLETHORPE ANIMAL SHELTERone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -5%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Cambridge academy provides students with an academically excellent curriculum, while fostering physical, social, and spiritual wellness within a nurturing environment.
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
The mission of the spartanburg day school is to provide a superior educational experience, in a community of trust, that prepares students for a life well lived. spartanburg day school is dually accredited by southern association of…
The mission of the charleston school of law foundation inc is to encourage and assist the study, teaching, promoting and research of the rule of law in charleston, south carolina and all related subject areas as determined by the board of…
We are a k-12 christian school founded under the following (4) pillars: academics: we provide an amazing accredited academic program utilizing 100% certified teachers. schedule: we provide our students and their families an opportunity on…
Cesjds is a pre k-12 grade independent day school that delivers an exemplary general and jewish education. our purpose is to ensure a vibrant jewish future by fostering the growth of confident, compassionate thinkers who engage the world…
To provide, and guide other schools in providing, an education in both jewish and secular studies that meet the needs of the invididual student, and which empowers each student to reach his/her highest level of independent and…
Through excellence in education, charlotte country day school develops the potential of each student by fostering intellectual curiosity, principled character, ethical leadership and a responsibility to serve. the key values and…
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
To educate jewish students based on chabad chassidic philosophy, advance their understanding of jewish ideas and foster their jewishness.
Atlanta jewish academy is a college preparatory, co-educational, preschool-12th grade, independent jewish day school, guided by modern orthodox values and principles. we embody the ideals of community, tradition, individual development and…
Shalom school's mission is to provide each child with an outstanding education in a nurturing environment that is academically excellent, inclusive, innovative, and inspired by jewish values and traditions.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chabad of Charleston Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rambam Day School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
20 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. 20 of the 48 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 CHABAD OF CHARLESTON INC ↗
- Who funds Charleston Jewish Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds ASHLEY HALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KIDS ON POINT INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE STRAY DOG SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ADDLESTONE HEBREW ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds MADISON OGLETHORPE ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds COASTAL CAROLINA COUNCIL BSA ↗
- Who funds PET HELPERS INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SIPES ORCHARD HOME ↗
- Who funds TRIDENT LITERACY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Landmarks for Families Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds RAMBAM DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · Nathan & Marlene Addlestone Foundation Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · The Sherman Family Charitable Trust · Trident United Way · Sol and Celia Cohen Endowment Fund · Advanced Technology International · Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund
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 The Cohen Family 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.
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.