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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $146k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 CHAPLIN SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| THE LADIES' VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| IRISH REPERTORY THEATER | $500 |
| VNA HOSPICE FOUNDATION | $500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CPCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $401k · revenue +76%
- WMWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART8× · 2017–2024 · $326k · revenue +161%
- NYNEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART8× · 2017–2024 · $289k · revenue +14%
Funded once
DUKE UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +51%- PPPLANNED PARENTHOODone grant, 2017 · $25k
- PAPARK AVENUE ARMORYone grant, 2018 · $13k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
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."
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.
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…
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)
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…
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.
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum of Manhattan and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 50 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE TIME INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ATLANTIC GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds THE DRAWING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC GOLF CLUB EDUCATIONAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HUDSON RIVER PARK INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN ↗
- Who funds NEW YORKERS FOR PARKS ↗
- Who funds WAINSCOTT WINDMILL FUND ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD ↗
- Who funds PREP FOR PREP ↗
- Who funds THE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ART PUBLICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds LONGHOUSE RESERVE ↗
- Who funds UNION SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Robert & Suzanne Cochran Fam Found funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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