Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation

• This foundation funds public 501(c)(3) nonprofit organisations based in the United States, with giving focused on underserved communities, children's health and education, the arts, environmental protection, and Lyme and tickborne disease research, though it says its giving is not limited to those areas.
• It does not accept unsolicited grant proposals and works by invitation only, partnering directly with organisations it chooses, so a cold application is unlikely to succeed.
• A realistic request would be modest: about 8 in 10 of its grants to organisations fall between $25,000 and $1,000,000, and half of its 589 grants across its recent filings were $100,000 or less, with the median grant at $100,000.
• Most of its grant dollars go to organisations it has funded before, so this looks like a relationship-led funder that favours continuing partners over new applicants reaching out cold.
• It does not fund individuals directly, so individuals should not apply in that capacity.

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

• Cohen Veterans Network · Veterans
  $51,000,0002024 tax year
• New York-Presbyterian Hospital · Behavioral health
  $11,649,0002024 tax year
• Fiorello H. LaGuardia Community College Foundation · Workforce development
  $7,147,4932024 tax year
• New York-Presbyterian Hospital · Healthcare
  $5,500,0002024 tax year
• City Harvest · Hunger relief
  $4,200,0002024 tax year
• Digital Harbor Foundation · Diagnostics
  $2,867,8942024 tax year
• Abilis · Human services
  $2,520,0002024 tax year
• Regents of the University of California at Berkeley · Research
  $2,092,3202024 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.