Cogan Family Foundation

• The foundation is selective: it makes contributions only to preselected charitable organisations and does not accept unsolicited requests, so a small charity without an existing invitation or introduction should not send a cold request.
• If your work is medical research, and especially Parkinson's disease research, it is the clearest fit the filing describes, though the foundation also gives broad general-purpose support to hospitals, food banks, educational institutions and other organisations.
• Where an approach is possible, a modest request suits its record: half of its grants to organisations were $10,000 or less, although its typical band runs from $5,000 to $30,000 and its largest grant was $250,000.
• Repeat giving is strong, with 97% of grant dollars to organisations going to groups it had funded in earlier filings, so the money mostly goes to organisations it already knows and a relationship matters more than the proposal.
• The filing states no geographic focus and describes no submission steps or timing, so any approach should be built around a prior contact.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Boston Medical Center · General Purpose
  $250,0002024 tax year
• Unicef · General Purpose
  $80,0002024 tax year
• Doctors Without Borders · General Purpose
  $50,0002024 tax year
• Thomas Jefferson University Hospital · Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center
  $50,0002024 tax year
• Save the Children Federation · General Purpose
  $40,0002024 tax year
• CARE · General Purpose
  $40,0002024 tax year
• Habitat for Humanity International · General Purpose
  $40,0002024 tax year
• Feeding America · General Purpose
  $40,0002024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.