How much does The Sigmund Cohn Family Foundation Inc give?

The Sigmund Cohn Family Foundation Inc reported 17 grants totaling $55,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Sigmund Cohn Family Foundation Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (43%), Human Services (19%), Arts & Culture (13%).

Who are The Sigmund Cohn Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Community Center of Northern Westchester Inc ($38k), Association to Preserve Cape Cod Inc ($30k), Westchester Land Trust Inc ($29k).

Does The Sigmund Cohn Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Sigmund Cohn Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Sigmund Cohn Family Foundation Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Tarnok Family Foundation Inc, Lanbro Foundation, The Braewold Fund.

Where is The Sigmund Cohn Family Foundation Inc based?

The Sigmund Cohn Family Foundation Inc is based in NY.

The Sigmund Cohn Family Foundation Inc

The Sigmund Cohn Family Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

The Sigmund Cohn Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$55k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$19k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$149kHuman Services$65kArts & Culture$45kEducation$35kPhilanthropy$15kHealth$10kRecreation & Sports$10kInternational$6kOther$0

02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k16 grants · $36k
$10k–50k1 grant · $19k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
JCCA	$19,200
WESTCHESTER LAND TRUST	$7,400
WESTCHESTER PARKS FOUNDATION	$5,600
ASSOCIATION TO PRESERVE CAPE COD	$5,000
COMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTHERN WESTCHESTER	$4,000
MOUNT KISCO CHILD CARE CENTER	$3,500
CAPE COD TROUT UNLIMITED (CHAPTER 460)	$2,500
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY	$1,000
NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION	$1,000
BEDFORD 2030	$1,000
THE RECORDER NEWS INC	$1,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL	$1,000
EARTHWATCH	$1,000
BEADS FOR EDUCATION	$700
WESTMORELAND SANCTUARY	$500

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$346k · 23 repeat orgs$42k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$346k

$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%

+26%

Still filing today

78%

57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentEducationHealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther

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

CC
COMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTHERN WESTCHESTER INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +330%
AT
ASSOCIATION TO PRESERVE CAPE COD INC
8× · 2018–2025 · $30k · revenue +479%
WL
Westchester Land Trust Inc
9× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +41%

Funded once

CF
COMMUNITY FUNDS INC
one grant, 2019 · $10k
TG
THE GRAHAM SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -81%
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2018 · $5k

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.

The Adirondack Council Inc

The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…

Environment

Wildlands Trust Inc

The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…

Environment

Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation

Northeast wilderness trust is a regional land trust working to preserve and restore forever-wild landscapes for nature and people in new york, vermont, new hampshire, maine, massachusetts and connecticut.

Environment

Woodstock Land Conservancy Inc

Acquire land and easements to preserve and enhance the open lands, forests, water resources, scenic areas and historical sights of the Woodstock, NY area. Steward protected lands and offer educational programs and events regarding nature…

Environment

World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment

The Central New York Land Trust Inc

The central new york land trust seeks to preserve and protect natural areas in order to provide our communities clean water, clean air, wildlife habitat, and a chance to connect with the land.

Environment

Westport Land Conservation Trust Inc

To preserve and protect westport massachusetts natural resources for people and nature, and to educate the public about the wise use of natural resources.

Environment

Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment

Wallkill Valley Land Trust

To promote the preservation, protection, and balanced use of the wallkill valley through acquisition, holding, and management of fee simple title conservation easements.

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Adirondack Mountain Club Inc

Adk is the only non-profit organization in new york state dedicated to the conservation, preservation, and responsible recreational use of the new york state forest preserve and other parks, wild lands, and waters vital to our members and…

Environment

Northern Neck Land Conservancy

Northern neck land conservancy's mission is to preserve the rural heritage of the northern neck and essex county by conserving their lands, water, economies and culture for future generations. the land conservancy assists landowners who…

Environment

New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund

See schedule onylcvef's mission is to educate, engage and empower new yorkers to be effective advocates on behalf of the environment from clean energy and funding for parks, to solid waste and green buildings. first, we educate new yorkers…

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Westchester Parks Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sloatsburg Food Pantry Inc Dba Community Food Pantry. 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

29 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. 29 of the 40 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

28/29

Grantees still filing

23/29

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$172,700Environment$124,730Recreation & Sports$38,000Education$32,250Human Services$28,500Philanthropy$5,000Crime & Legal$2,000

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

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 Tarnok Family Foundation IncNY15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Tarnok Family Foundation Inc · Lanbro Foundation · The Braewold Fund · Ibm International Foundation · Jandon Foundation · Pcsb Community Foundation · Peckham Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 Sigmund Cohn Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sigmund Cohn Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home