· Private foundation
The Cohen Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $47k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $322k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CARMEL YOUTH ASSISTANCE INC | $134,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION | $97,000 |
| INDIANAPOLIS ZOO | $91,000 |
| NEWFIELDS (FORMALLY THE INDIANAPOLIS MUSEUM OF ART) | $26,200 |
| BREBEUF JESUIT PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC | $11,054 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA | $10,000 |
| BETH EL ZEDECK CONGREGATION | $9,920 |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY KELLEY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS | $5,000 |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW | $5,000 |
| MONTVERDE ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| FUN TIME EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY | $2,600 |
| INDIANAPOLIS REPERTORY THEATRE | $2,270 |
| STXBP1 DISORDERS | $2,000 |
| YOUTH HAVEN | $2,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 96% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
27 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 6 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- IZIndianapolis Zoological Society Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $547k · revenue +24%
- CPConner Prairie Museum Inc5× · 2019–2023 · $218k · revenue +40%
- CYCARMEL YOUTH ASSISTANCE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +64% · 47% of their budget
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $100k
- 9P91 PLACE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $54k · revenue +28%
- IHINDIANA HEALTH FUND INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -98%
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.
Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Enroll indy helps families choose schools that meet their children's needs by providing a one-stop enrollment process, school information that is relevant and easy to understand, and data to inform school improvement in indianapolis,…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.
To mobilize people, ideas, and investments to make this a community where all individuals have equitable opportunity to reach their full potential - no matter place, race or identity.
The indiana university alumni association activates and supports the global alumni network- encouraging alumni to grow a lifelong connection with indiana university, and inspiring their ongoing generosity toward each other and the…
To deliver preeminent medical care and service to our patients and communities through outstanding and innovative medical leadership and practice, while participating in and supporting excellence in education and research. We achieve this…
The University of Indianapolis champions lifelong learning through relevant and innovative education that fosters experiential learning, diverse perspectives, service for impact, and a global mindset.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Cicp foundation, inc. (the foundation) operates exclusively for the benefit of and carries out the mission of central indiana corporate partnership, inc. (cicp) by engaging in and supporting activities in furtherance of purposes that are…
Indiana united way is the leading voice to advocate, engage, and partner with a strong united way network and key stakeholders to advance human well-being throughout indiana.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Oh Ky & in and the most unlike its peers is Jd Finish Line 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.
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 41 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 59 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 Indianapolis Zoological Society Inc ↗
- Who funds Conner Prairie Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds CARMEL YOUTH ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OH KY & IN ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds 91 PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation of Greater Indianapolis Inc ↗
- Who funds Newfields Inc ↗
- Who funds JD Finish Line Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds INDIANA HEALTH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds THE JULIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Towne Meadow Elementary PTO ↗
- Who funds MONTVERDE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Kipp Indianapolis Inc ↗
- Who funds Creekside Middle School PTO ↗
- Who funds Fun Time Early Childhood Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUTH HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE NORA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC ↗
- Who funds Butler University ↗
- Who funds GUATEMALA HEALING HANDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA WRITERS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA GIRLS BASKETBALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED 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: Lilly Endowment Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · The Ackerman Foundation · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · The Klapper Family Foundation Inc · Dorsey Foundation Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc
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 Inc 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.
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