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The Ryna and Melvin Cohen Family Foundation

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.

$2.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
48
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of THE RYNA AND MELVIN COHEN FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k35 grants · $130k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $133k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $329k
  • $250k+2 grants · $2.2M
$5,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$1,300,000
SAN FRANCISCO JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION$900,000
THE JOHN F KENNEDY DC$124,000
CAPITAL JEWISH MUSEUM$105,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$100,000
BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON$27,500
Individual grant recipient$25,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES$25,000
MAKOM$15,000
THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE$10,000
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS$10,000
CHRIS LONG FOUNDATION$10,000
SAVE A CHILD'S HEART$10,000
ATHLETES FOR HOPE$7,591
ACTIVE MINDS$7,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 34% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $500 → 14%OPERATION HEALING FORCES: $12k → 12%FURNISH HOPE: $500 → 10%THE HANDS OF LOVE FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $28k → 8%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 17%IONA SENIOR SERVICES: $1k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON: $1k → 14%IONA SENIOR SERVICES: $250 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
VT
NH
WA
MT
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
AR
DC
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.0M · 40 repeat orgs$3.7M to everyone else

40 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
119

Total granted

$3.0M
$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+13%

Still filing today

70%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationInternationalEnvironmentOther

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

  • FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC
    2× · 2020–2023 · $275k · revenue +95%
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $110k · revenue +253%
  • TS
    THE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA
    2× · 2020–2023 · $75k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • TJ
    The Jewish Federation of Greater Wash.
    one grant, 2020 · $300k
  • FC
    FIDELITY CHARITABLE FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $250k
  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION & ENDOWMENT FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $250k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
5
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
6
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.

Education
7
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
8
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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9
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
10
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
11
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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12
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Judicial Watch Inc and the most unlike its peers is The National Museum of Women in the Arts. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community Organizati…Policy Research and AdvocacyLocal History MuseumsYouth Sports ProgramsCancer Support ServicesMilitary Veterans SupportHealth Access Advocacy and …Pregnancy Support ServicesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Arts CentersDance Arts OrganizationsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Christian Missionary Organi…Food Banks and PantriesAffordable Housing Construc…Local Food System Organizat…Environmental Conservation …Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr16%4%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%33%20–35yr11%27%35–55yr16%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr16%2%5–10yr19%4%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr11%19%35–55yr16%45%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/119
the rest of the field
14%
5,903/41,730

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.

04the grantee network

114 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. 114 of the 181 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
113/114
Grantees still filing
73/114
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $1,300,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSAN FRANCISCO JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION — $950,000 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATIONThe Jewish Federation of Greater Wash. — $300,000 · OtherThe Jewish Federation of Greater Wash.FIDELITY CHARITABLE FUND — $250,000 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE FUNDJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION & ENDOWMENT FUND — $250,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION & ENDOWMENT FUND+117 more — $1,609,679 · Other+117 moreSAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — $531,000 · EducationSAN FRANCIS…HILLSDALE COLLEGE — $55,000 · EducationHILLSDALE C…KENYON COLLEGE — $50,000 · EducationKENYON COLL…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $25,000 · Education+8 more — $27,100 · EducationLillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum — $255,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $100,000 · Arts & CultureNew Civil Liberties Alliance — $50,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $25,500 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION — $18,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION — $18,000 · Arts & Culture+12 more — $67,490 · Arts & CultureFOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC — $275,000 · Youth Development+2 more — $12,591 · Youth DevelopmentTHE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA — $75,000 · InternationalWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY — $55,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · InternationalThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $25,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $10,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $10,000 · InternationalISRAEL POLICY FORUM INC — $10,000 · International+4 more — $13,500 · InternationalSUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $25,000 · HealthLUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC — $20,000 · HealthActive Minds Inc — $12,500 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $11,500 · HealthFriends of Cancer Research — $10,000 · HealthBALLER DREAM FOUNDATION — $6,482 · Health+4 more — $5,600 · HealthTAX FOUNDATION — $55,000 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $40,000 · Public BenefitLeadership Institute — $30,000 · Public BenefitCATO INSTITUTE — $25,000 · Public Benefit
Other$4,659,679Education$688,100Arts & Culture$533,990Youth Development$287,591International$228,500Health$191,082Public Benefit$150,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — $531,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC — $275,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetLillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum — $255,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $110,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSIXTH & I SYNAGOGUE INC — $101,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetSUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA — $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON — $62,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTAX FOUNDATION — $55,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $55,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY — $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNew Civil Liberties Alliance — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetKENYON COLLEGE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS — $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $25,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVORY INSTITUTEORG INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHRIS LONG FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION — $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION — $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Defiant Requiem Foundation — $15,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY — $13,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetActive Minds Inc — $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION HEALING FORCES INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $11,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Cancer Research — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Greater Washington Co…The Carl M Freeman Fo…Bender Foundation IncAlan and Amy Meltzer …The Robert P and Arle…The Morris and Gwendo…Nora Roberts Foundati…Ronald & Joy Paul Fam…The Scott and Patrice…The Gary and Pennie A…Robert I Schattner Fo…The Morningstar Phila…
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC30× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc · Bender Foundation Inc · Alan and Amy Meltzer Family Foundation Inc · The Robert P and Arlene R Kogod Family Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · Ronald & Joy Paul Family Foundation Inc · The Scott and Patrice Brickman Family Foundation · The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation · Robert I Schattner Foundation Inc aka Schattner Foundation · The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar Foundation

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 Ryna and Melvin Cohen Family Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Bender Jcc of Greater Washington — 1% of income from government
  • Circuit Arts Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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How do I get to The Ryna and Melvin Cohen Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Ryna and Melvin Cohen Family 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 181 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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