New Jersey · Nonprofit
COHNA
COHNA (New Jersey) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $317,606 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($130,532). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $549k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $318k
- Net assets
- $638k
What Cohna does
Mission
CoHNA pronounced: Kohnaa is a grassroots advocacy group representing the Hindu community of North America. It is building a movement to empower Hindus whereby they can become meaningful contributors and active participants in their local communities on a wide range of issues.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Education: Ensuring safe schools confident children. Our HPN initiative runs several programs to help educate parents and educators on creating safe spaces for Hindu children to explore their heritage. Engaging and educating policymakers: Educating government entities lawmakers and policymakers on Hindu culture and on issues faced by our community. Upholding our civil rights: Assist Hindu Americans unfairly targeted by anti-Hindu legislation. Combating hate: create and disseminate information about Hinduphobia. Help reduce the prevalence of hate crimes against Hindus in America.
$275,324 spent$419,376 earned by the program81% of program spendingAdvocacy:Standing up for Human rights: Highlight and address human rights violations against Hindus globally. Create professional research toolkits and and host workshops and webinars for lawmakers and staffers. Conduct dedicated education sessions for policymakers through our Day at the Hill Program
$21,201 spent$34,154 earned by the program6% of program spendingOther programs: Empowering young Hindus on college campuses. Continue to expand the reach of the CoHNA Youth Action Network in universities across North America. Protect our sacred symbols and festivals: Educate the public on the difference between the sacred Swastika and the Nazi Hakenkreuz and continue to challenge the misuse and abuse of Hindu religious symbols in commercial spaces
$44,404 spent$71,534 earned by the program13% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $340,929.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $230k to $495k (+115%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
96% of COHNA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $5k → $74k.
6 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of COHNA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
COHNA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
94% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund COHNA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 74% · 2023 28% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
94% of COHNA's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $18k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside New Jersey, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $300k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
COHNA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like COHNA
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COHNA: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COHNA?
- COHNA (New Jersey) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $317,606 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($130,532). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COHNA have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $317,606 in grants to COHNA, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COHNA?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $130,532 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COHNA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 12 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing