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The Diane Frisch Cohen Foundation at a glance

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The Diane Frisch Cohen Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$838k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$838k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Philanthropy$838kInternational$47kArts & Culture$26kEducation$6kHuman Services$5kHealth$4kFood & Nutrition$2kAnimals$2kOther$0
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$837,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VANGUARD DONOR ADVISED FUND$837,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DOROT: $1k → 17%DOROT: $1k → 17%DOROT: $1k → 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.
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.

5%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$40k · 7 repeat orgs$844k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue -2% since the first grant, against -3% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
7

Total granted

$40k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-2%
-3%

Still filing today

57%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $838k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsCivil RightsOther
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

  • TU
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    5× · 2017–2022 · $26k · revenue +25%
  • TH
    THE HAGEDORN LITTLE VILLAGE SCHOOL
    5× · 2017–2022 · $6k · revenue +35%
  • DI
    DOROT INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $3k · revenue -8%

Funded once

  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +28%
  • THE DOE FUND INC
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -13%
  • MA
    MAZON A Jewish Response to Hungergraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +30%
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 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
2
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
3
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
4
Yad Ezra V'shulamit

Yad ezra v'shulamit's mission is to provide over 300,000 people in israel with food and basic supplies for those living in poverty by distributing 12,000 weekly food baskets. with a focus on children we try to ensure that hundreds of…

International
5
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
6
Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc

Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…

Community Improvement
7
Nysarc Inc New York City Chapter

We are committed to helping people with intellectual (cont. on schedule o) and developmental disabilities to live full lives.

Human Services
8
T of L Inc

The tree of life is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. our mission is to uproot antisemitism by preserving the memory of those lost on october 27, 2018-the deadliest antisemitic attack in u.s. history-and…

Arts & Culture
9
Shalom School

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.

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10
Holocaust Documentation and Education Center Inc

The center's primary mission is to preserve, protect and perpetuate the authentic memory of the holocaust, by creating a permanent and irrefutable record of the testimonies of survivors, liberators and rescuers. the holocaust center…

Arts & Culture
11
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust

The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.

Arts & Culture
12
Holocaust Resource Foundation

See schedule o the holocaust resource foundation supports the holocaust resource center whose mission is to foster and reinforce awareness about the holocaust among students, teachers and community members and to apply the lessons to be…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Hagedorn Little Village School; 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

11 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. 11 of the 16 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VANGUARD DONOR ADVISED FUND: $837,500 · OtherVANGUARD DONOR ADVISED FUND+9 more: $7,800 · OtherPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $47,000 · PhilanthropyThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $25,500 · Arts & CultureTHE HAGEDORN LITTLE VILLAGE SCHOOL: $6,000 · EducationDOROT INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION INC: $2,600 · HealthANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $1,500 · Civil Rights
Other$845,300Philanthropy$47,000Arts & Culture$25,500Education$6,000Human Services$3,000Health$2,600Civil Rights$1,500

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 budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $47,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $25,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HAGEDORN LITTLE VILLAGE SCHOOL: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDOROT INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION INC: $2,600 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DOE FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER CARING CENTER INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRESCUE DOGS ROCK INC: $500 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Diane Frisch Cohen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Diane Frisch Cohen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 16 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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