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The Jonathan L Cohen 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 FY2024(still arriving)
23
Itemized grants FY2024
27
Organizations funded FY2022
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Itemized, FY2024
$45k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$5,000
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$281k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
86% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$30kEducation$15kArts & Culture$13kYouth Development$5kScience & Tech$5kPublic Benefit$5kHousing & Shelter$4kPhilanthropy$4kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 23 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($17k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Jonathan L Cohen Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPace University: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNyu Langone Health System: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe News Literacy Project Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Partnership to End Homelessness Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Pierpont Morgan Library: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Legal Aid Society: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCarley Cunniff-Peter S Dixon Md Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe New York Times Communities Fund: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Naval Institute Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Wisconsin Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGirl Scouts of the United States of America: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Mariners' Museum: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHistorical Society of Pennsylvania: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpinal Muscular Atrophy Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Fibrolamellar Cancer Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWnet: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational September 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMill Reef Fund: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN12× affinity8 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation 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.

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How do I get to The Jonathan L Cohen Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Jonathan L Cohen Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Jonathan L Cohen Foundation

How much does The Jonathan L Cohen Foundation give?
The Jonathan L Cohen Foundation reported 23 itemized grants totaling $45,000, out of $49,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does The Jonathan L Cohen Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (7%), Education (3%), Arts & Culture (3%).
Who are The Jonathan L Cohen Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Stony Brook Southampton Hospital ($10k), Pace University ($10k), Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc ($6k).
Does The Jonathan L Cohen Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Jonathan L Cohen Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is The Jonathan L Cohen Foundation based?
The Jonathan L Cohen Foundation is based in NY.

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 37 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 and reports $109k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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