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The Herbert N and Olive Cohn Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Herbert N and Olive Cohn Family 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.

$49k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$12k
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 2025.

Food & Nutrition$196kArts & Culture$92kInternational$47kCommunity Improvement$47kHealth$19kEducation$12kYouth Development$6kRecreation & Sports$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$833k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DUBLIN FOOD PANTRY$12,316
TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$12,316
OREGON FOOD BANK$8,131
HARP GUITAR FOUNDATION$5,000
HARP GUITAR GATHERING$5,000
MERCY CORPS$4,000
REPAIRERS OF THE BREACH$2,500
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EVERY CHILD INC: $2k → 11%TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $12k → 11%THE SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%TACKLING CHILD HUNGER: $11k → 9%MIRACLE LEAGUE OF MANASOTA: $1k → 10%WEST PALM 100 INC: $11k → 11%PORTLAND INTERFAITH GOSPEL CHOIR: $10k → 12%HARP GUITAR GATHERING: $5k → 12%UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $3k → 18%DUBLIN FOOD PANTRY: $27k → 15%UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $5k → 14%LITTLE KIDS ROCK INC: $6k → 16%MARCH OF DIMES INC: $5k → 7%ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC: $7k → 9%WEST PALM 100 INC: $8k → 11%OREGON FOOD BANK: $10k → 12%HARP GUITAR GATHERING: $5k → 12%REPAIRERS OF THE BREACH: $3k → 18%DUBLIN FOOD PANTRY: $24k → 15%UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $4k → 14%MARCH OF DIMES INC: $3k → 7%ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC: $5k → 9%OREGON FOOD BANK: $9k → 12%HARP GUITAR GATHERING: $5k → 12%DUBLIN FOOD PANTRY: $23k → 15%UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $4k → 14%GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SARASOTA COUNTY: $6k → 9%OREGON FOOD BANK: $8k → 12%HARP GUITAR GATHERING: $5k → 12%DUBLIN FOOD PANTRY: $22k → 15%UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $3k → 14%OREGON FOOD BANK: $8k → 12%HARP GUITAR GATHERING: $5k → 12%DUBLIN FOOD PANTRY: $16k → 15%OREGON FOOD BANK: $8k → 12%HARP GUITAR GATHERING: $5k → 12%DUBLIN FOOD PANTRY: $12k → 15%OREGON FOOD BANK: $8k → 12%RIVER MOUNTAIN CITY: $17k → 12%RIVER MOUNTAIN CITY: $12k → 12%MERCY CORPS: $6k → 12%MERCY CORPS: $5k → 12%MERCY CORPS: $5k → 12%MERCY CORPS: $4k → 12%MERCY CORPS: $2k → 12%MERCY CORPS: $2k → 12%MERCY CORPS: $2k → 12%MERCY CORPS: $2k → 12%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

IL
NY
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
NC
TX
FL
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$364k · 10 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +113% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
11

Total granted

$364k
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+113%
+17%

Still filing today

60%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionCrime & LegalInternationalRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • DF
    DUBLIN FOOD PANTRY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $125k · revenue +113%
  • OREGON FOOD BANK
    6× · 2020–2025 · $49k · revenue +7%
  • TH
    THE HARP GUITAR FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $46k · revenue +241% · 76% of their budget

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $11k
  • TS
    THE SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +18%
  • PI
    PORTLAND INTERFAITH GOSPEL CHOIR
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -24% · 28% of their budget
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
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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2
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
3
Food Allergy Science Initiative Inc

To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.

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4
San Francisco Food Bank

To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…

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5
Miracle Flights

Miracle flights is a national charity that provides free commercial airline tickets for u.s. residents in need of distant medical care not available in their own communities.

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6
The Maryland Food Bank Inc

The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.

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7
Episcopal Relief and Development

Episcopal relief & development (the organization") is an affiliate of the domestic and foreign missionary society of the protestant episcopal church of the united states of america (the "society or "dfms"). (see schedule o)

Human Services
8
The Florida Center for Early Childhood Inc

The florida center supports the healthy development of young children, specializing in those with delays, disabilities or mental health challenges. our mission- "to help build and foster strong families and expand the potential of young…

Human Services
9
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
10
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
11
Mila's Miracle Foundation

The mission of mila's miracle foundation is to find and fund paths to a cure for batten and other life-threatening neurological disorders. families in this community have been pivotal in raising the necessary funds and awareness. together,…

Health
12
2020 Mom Policy Center for Maternal

The policy center is improving maternal mental health outcomes through closing gaps in care delivery, including improving detection and access to evidence-based and informed clinical and community-based care. the policy center has been…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Harp Guitar Foundation. 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

17 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. 17 of the 23 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OREGON FOOD BANK: $49,131 · OtherOREGON FOOD BANKHARP GUITAR GATHERING: $30,000 · OtherHARP GUITAR GATHERINGRIVER MOUNTAIN CITY: $28,500 · OtherRIVER MOUNTAIN CITYWEST PALM 100 INC: $18,630 · OtherWEST PALM 100 INCUNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $17,500 · OtherUNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYIndividual grant recipient: $10,640 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+6 more: $7,775 · OtherDUBLIN FOOD PANTRY: $124,878 · Food & NutritionDUBLIN FOOD PANTRYALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC: $11,500 · Food & NutritionALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INCTHE HARP GUITAR FOUNDATION: $46,000 · Arts & CultureTHE HARP GUITAR …PORTLAND INTERFAITH GOSPEL CHOIR: $10,000 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND INTERFA…MUSIC WILL INC: $5,766 · Arts & CultureMUSIC WILL INCMercy Corps: $29,715 · InternationalTHE SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION: $10,075 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC: $8,000 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $12,316 · EducationGIRLS INCORPORATED OF SARASOTA COUNTY: $5,766 · Youth Development
Other$162,176Food & Nutrition$136,378Arts & Culture$61,766International$29,715Health$18,575Education$12,316Youth Development$5,766

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDUBLIN FOOD PANTRY: $124,878 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK: $49,131 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HARP GUITAR FOUNDATION: $46,000 over 9y, 76% of budgetMercy Corps: $29,715 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC: $11,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION: $10,075 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPORTLAND INTERFAITH GOSPEL CHOIR: $10,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF SARASOTA COUNTY: $5,766 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMUSIC WILL INC: $5,766 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEVERY CHILD INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL ATHLETE BOOSTERS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMIRACLE LEAGUE OF MANASOTA INC: $1,125 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation 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.

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 Community Foundat…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co IncFL13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Herbert N and Olive Cohn Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Herbert N and Olive Cohn Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
  • Child Protection Center Inc: 8% of income from government
  • All Faiths Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 23 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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