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The Robert & Suzanne Cochran Fam Found at a glance

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The Robert & Suzanne Cochran Fam Found

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$167k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.2MRecreation & Sports$433kEducation$94kHealth$36kSocial Science$27kPhilanthropy$20kReligion$10kYouth Development$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $146k
$3,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$861k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART$40,380
CREATIVE TIME$32,000
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART$30,000
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY$29,000
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTS$15,000
LINCOLN THEATER CENTER$5,370
Individual grant recipient$3,650
THE DRAWING CENTER$3,000
THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN OF NEW YORK$2,000
THE BUCKLEY SCHOOL$2,000
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART$1,500
THE LADIES' VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY$1,000
THE CHAPLIN SCHOOL$1,000
IRISH REPERTORY THEATER$500
VNA HOSPICE FOUNDATION$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 (FY19–23, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FRIENDS OF GEORGICA POND FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%CAREER GEAR: $1k → 17%UNION SETTLEMENT: $2k → 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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 26 repeat orgs$174k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
22

Total granted

$1.6M
$170k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+32%

Still filing today

77%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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

  • CP
    CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $401k · revenue +76%
  • WM
    WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
    8× · 2017–2024 · $326k · revenue +161%
  • NY
    NEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART
    8× · 2017–2024 · $289k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • DUKE UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +51%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • PA
    PARK AVENUE ARMORY
    one grant, 2018 · $13k
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 Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
2
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
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
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
5
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
6
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
7
New York Studio School

The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)

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8
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…

Arts & Culture
9
Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio Inc El Museo Del Barrio

El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.

Arts & Culture
10
The Frick Collection

The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.

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11
Berggruen Institute
Education
12
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum of Manhattan; the most unlike its peers is Career Gear Inc. 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

38 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. 38 of the 52 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/38
Grantees still filing
27/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $325,570 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ARTCREATIVE TIME INC: $309,555 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE TIME INCMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $113,379 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART+13 more: $83,010 · Arts & Culture+13 moreCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $401,250 · Recreation & SportsCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY …+1 more: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsNEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART: $289,260 · OtherNEW YORK ACADEMY OF ARTPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $25,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD+24 more: $86,081 · Other+24 moreDUKE UNIVERSITY: $75,000 · EducationPREP FOR PREP: $4,000 · EducationTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD: $4,000 · Education+1 more: $2,200 · EducationTHE ATLANTIC GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION: $19,937 · PhilanthropyATLANTIC GOLF CLUB EDUCATIONAL FUND INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $27,200 · Social ScienceCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $9,994 · Health
Arts & Culture$831,514Recreation & Sports$411,250Other$400,341Education$85,200Philanthropy$29,937Social Science$27,200Health$9,994

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 budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $401,250 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $325,570 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCREATIVE TIME INC: $309,555 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetNEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART: $289,260 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $113,379 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $27,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ATLANTIC GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION: $19,937 over 4y, 20% of budgetTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $15,070 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DRAWING CENTER INC: $13,240 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetATLANTIC GOLF CLUB EDUCATIONAL FUND INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF HUDSON RIVER PARK INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $9,994 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORKERS FOR PARKS: $7,200 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWAINSCOTT WINDMILL FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetNEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC: $4,660 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPREP FOR PREP: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC: $3,950 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ART PUBLICATIONS INC: $2,610 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $2,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC: $2,440 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $2,330 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLONGHOUSE RESERVE: $2,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNION SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION INC: $2,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC: $1,850 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC: $1,730 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION: $1,290 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAREER GEAR INC: $1,285 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LADIES VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY OF EAST HAMPTON: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF GEORGICA POND FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANYINC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Museum of Contemporary Art: $400 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.

Daniel M Neidich & Br…May and Samuel Rudin …Jewish Communal FundThe Goldman Sachs Cha…The New York Communit…National Philanthropi…The Ford FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Daniel M Neidich & Brooke Garber FoundationNY17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Daniel M Neidich & Brooke Garber Foundation · May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The New York Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ford Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Robert & Suzanne Cochran Fam Found funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert & Suzanne Cochran Fam Found. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Robert & Suzanne Cochran Fam Found?

    Find your warmest path to The Robert & Suzanne Cochran Fam Found 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.

    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 52 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.

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