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The George Cohee Jr Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The George Cohee Jr 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.

$2k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$1k
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 2024.

Health$69kAnimals$13kHousing & Shelter$4kEducation$3kCivil Rights$3kInternational$3kEnvironment$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$160k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUSCCOLLEGE FOR EDS RESEARCH$1,000
DANCE FOR PD OREGON$1,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CARLETON COLLEGE: $500 → 11%NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FDTN: $500 → 18%MUSCCOLLEGE FOR EDS RESEARCH: $1k → 12%ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP: $500 → 14%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $1k → 18%DANCE FOR PD OREGON: $1k → 8%UNDERDOG RAILROAD RESCUE: $500 → 12%PATHWAYS INC: $1k → 9%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 13%THE SIEGEL RARE NEUROIMMUNE ASSOC: $965 → 5%PREVENT CHILD ABUSE AMERICA: $500 → 14%NAMI: $4k → 7%HOPE FOR LIFE RESCUE: $3k → 10%VMI FOUNDATION: $500 → 12%Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters: $50k → 19%EDMARC HOSPICE FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 20%ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP: $500 → 14%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $1k → 18%CHARITY UNITED: $1k → 8%Underdog Railroad Rescue: $200 → 12%PATHWAYS INC: $1k → 9%The Siegel Rare Neuroimmune Association: $200 → 5%PREVENT CHILD ABUSE AMERICA: $500 → 14%NAMI: $4k → 7%HOPE FOR LIFE RESCUE: $2k → 10%VMI FOUNDATION: $500 → 12%EDMARC HOSPICE FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 20%ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP: $500 → 14%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $500 → 18%CHARITY UNITED: $500 → 8%UNDERDOG RAILROAD RESCUE: $525 → 12%PATHWAYS INC: $500 → 9%NAMI: $4k → 7%HOPE FOR LIFE RESCUE: $2k → 10%VMI FOUNDATION: $500 → 12%Edmarc Hospice for Children: $500 → 20%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $500 → 18%CHARITY UNITED: $500 → 8%UNDERDOG RAILROAD RESCUE: $500 → 12%NAMI: $3k → 7%HOPE FOR LIFE RESCUE: $2k → 10%VMI FOUNDATION: $465 → 12%Southern Poverty Law Center: $300 → 18%CHARITY UNITED: $500 → 8%UNDERDOG RAILROAD RESCUE: $400 → 12%VIRGINIA BEACH VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQU: $1k → 10%Hope for Life Rescue: $1k → 10%VIRGINIA BEACH VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD: $1k → 10%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

MN
IL
OR
OH
CT
CA
VA
SC
DC
AL
GA
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.

44%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$44k · 11 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
7

Total granted

$44k
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+47%

Still filing today

100%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’24
HealthAnimalsEducationArts & CultureCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • NN
    NAMI National
    4× · 2017–2020 · $15k · revenue +543%
  • HF
    HOPE FOR LIFE RESCUE INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $10k · revenue +221%
  • SP
    SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $3k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • CH
    Children's Hospital of the King's Daughtersgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +47%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +48%
  • VB
    VIRGINIA BEACH VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
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
East Tennessee Children's Hospital Association Inc

East tennessee children's hospital is a free-standing, independent, not-for-profit pediatric health care system which serves the east tennessee region. children's hospital is certified by the state of tennessee as a comprehensive regional…

Health
2
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
3
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
4
Humane World for Animals Inc

Humane World for Animals, Inc., formerly known as the Humane Society of the United States (The Organization), seeks to tackle the root causes of animal cruelty and suffering. CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O

Animals
5
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…

Animals
6
Guttmacher Institute Inc

The institute is a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the united states and globally.

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7
Project Hope - the People-to-People Health Foundation Inc

To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…

International
8
Children's Hospital Colorado

To improve the health of children through the provision of high-quality, coordinated programs of patient care, education, research and advocacy.

Health
9
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Wake County Inc

Located in raleigh, nc, the spca of wake county works in over half the state of north carolina through collaborative partnerships that save pets and help people. significant activities include: decreasing the number of animals entering…

Animals
10
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
11
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
12
National Vaccine Information Center

The purpose of nvic is to promote and encourage the health and welfare of american children and adults through its research and education-oriented programs to prevent vaccine injuries and deaths and to assist individuals (both children and…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southern Poverty Law Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Underdogs Rock Rescue. 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

15 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. 15 of the 20 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters: $50,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital of the King's DaughtersNAMI National: $14,895 · HealthNAMI NationalEDMARC INC: $2,500 · HealthPATHWAYS INC: $2,500 · Health+1 more: $1,165 · HealthHOPE FOR LIFE RESCUE INC: $9,925 · AnimalsHOPE FOR LIFE…Underdogs Rock Rescue: $2,125 · AnimalsUnderdogs Roc…PREVENT CHILD ABUSE AMERICA: $1,000 · OtherVIRGINIA BEACH VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD: $1,000 · OtherMUSCCOLLEGE FOR EDS RESEARCH: $1,000 · OtherVIRGINIA BEACH VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQU: $1,000 · OtherDANCE FOR PD OREGON: $1,000 · OtherNORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FDTN: $500 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,000 · Other+1 more: $100 · OtherSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $3,300 · Crime & LegalCharity United: $2,500 · PhilanthropyVMI Foundation: $1,965 · EducationCARLETON COLLEGE: $500 · EducationENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP: $1,700 · Environment
Health$71,060Animals$12,050Other$6,600Crime & Legal$3,300Philanthropy$2,500Education$2,465Environment$1,700

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 budgetChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughters: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI National: $14,895 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR LIFE RESCUE INC: $9,925 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $3,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEDMARC INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPATHWAYS INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUnderdogs Rock Rescue: $2,125 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetVMI Foundation: $1,965 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP: $1,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSIEGEL RARE NEUROIMMUNE ASSOCIATION: $1,165 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPREVENT CHILD ABUSE AMERICA: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARLETON COLLEGE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $100 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.

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.

The Pfizer Foundation…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Pfizer Foundation IncNY10.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 George Cohee Jr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The George Cohee Jr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 45%
  • Pathways Inc: 45% of income from government
  • Oregon Public Broadcasting: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
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 20 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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