Open Foundations · Kansas

Barton P & Mary D Cohen Charitable 1

Overland Park, Kansas · EIN 266205947. Its Form 990-PF says giving is not restricted to organizations picked in advance, which is how a private foundation files that it accepts unsolicited requests. It paid $1.0M across 18 grants in 2025, a median of $21K each.

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$1.0M
paid in 2025
18
grants paid
$21K
median grant
39%
to first-time recipients
$8.7M
assets on file

How to apply, as filed

Straight off Part XV of the return. Where the foundation left a line blank, this says so rather than guessing.

Send requests to
MIDWEST TRUST COMPANY
Address
5901 COLLEGE BLVD STE 100, OVERLAND PARK, KS, 66211
Phone
9133190300
Email
Not stated in the filing
Form the request should take
LETTER REQUEST WITH DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITIES
Submission deadline
NONE
Restrictions on awards
YES, FOR DETAILS, PLEASE SEE WEBSITE

As filed on the Form 990-PF for tax year 2025, IRS filing object id 202631359349101543. Printed word for word, including the entries that only say to see a website or an attachment.

What it funds, in its own words

The words that come up most often across the purposes it wrote on its 2025 grants. These are the foundation's own words, not a category we assigned.

scholarship

Biggest grants in 2025

The 15 largest of the 18 grants paid in 2025, with the purpose the foundation wrote for each.

#RecipientStateAmountPurpose as filed
1World Giving FoundationKS$499,496UNRESTRICTED GIFT
2Kids Tlc IncKS$120,000CHARITABLE
3Eden Village of Kansas CityKS$50,000CHARITABLE
4Growing Futures Early Education CenterKS$50,000CHARITABLE
5Kansas CityKS$50,000CHARITABLE
6Kansas City SymphonyMO$50,000SCHOLARSHIP
7Leawood FoundationKS$50,000GRANT
8Horizon AcademyKS$25,000CHARITABLE
9Kansas City Legal ServicesKS$25,000CHARITABLE
10Blue Valley Educational FoundationKS$17,500CHARITABLE
11Johnson County LibraryKS$15,000SCHOLARSHIP
12Della Lamb Community ServicesMO$10,000CHARITABLE
13First Tee of Greater Kansas CityMO$10,000CHARITABLE
14House of HopeKS$10,000CHARITABLE
15Johnson CountyKS$10,000CHARITABLE

Giving by year, and who received it

Grants paid by year

Every year of this foundation's grants that Civly holds
Tax yearGrantsPaid
202013$550K
202111$557K
20228$737K
202311$514K
20248$327K
2025 (partial year)18$1.0M

Where the money went

Share of 2025 grant dollars by recipient state
Kansas78%
Missouri22%

Who decides

Officers, directors and trustees as filed, with the year of the return they appeared on.

Midwest Trust CompanyCO-TRUSTEE · 2024

Every figure on this page is that foundation's own latest filed year, which is 2022 or later. This foundation is listed because its Form 990-PF says it does not restrict giving to preselected organizations and it paid at least 5 grants totaling $100K or more that year. Latest-year grants and terms per foundation from IRS 990-PF e-file returns; the newest tax year is partial until the IRS finishes releasing it. Grants are de-duplicated on funder, year, recipient and amount, so identical repeat grants collapse into one and totals can run low. Full method.

Source: IRS Form 990-PF e-file releases (public domain). Analysis: Civly.

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