Skip to content
Bluecoats Inc at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Bluecoats Inc

To provide aid for families of individuals in the protective services who have become disabled, have lost their lives in the line of duty, or have financial need beyond their control.

$101k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$19k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$80kPublic Safety & Disaster$70kPublic Benefit$61kHuman Services$36kCrime & Legal$33k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $77,358, the rows itemized in this filing. The $100,857 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $23,499 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$12,059
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SUMMIT COUNTY FIREFIGHTERS ASSOC$19,299
UNIVERSITY OF AKRON - DEPT OF DEVELOPMENT$12,500
METRO SWAT$12,059
SOUTH SUMMIT FIRE CHIEFS$12,000
SPRINGFIELD POLICE DEPARTMENT$11,500
SAFETY FORCES SUPPORT CENTER - COUNSELING GRANT$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 7% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%UNIVERSITY OF AKRON - DEPT OF DEVELOPMENT: $13k → 13%SUMMIT COUNTY FIREFIGHTERS ASSOC: $19k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF AKRON - DEPT OF DEVELOPMENT: $13k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF AKRON - DEPT OF DEVELOPMENT: $13k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF AKRON: $10k → 13%SAFETY FORCES SUPPORT CENTER: $46k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF AKRON - DEPT OF DEVELOPMENT: $8k → 13%SAFETY FORCES SUPPORT CENTER: $10k → 13%METRO SWAT: $12k → 13%THE VILLAGE OF SILVER LAKE: $5k → 13%COVENTRY FIRE DEPARTMENT - TRAINING ROOM: $15k → 13%AKRON FOP #7: $25k → 13%SAFETY FORCES SUPPORT CENTER - COUNSELING GRANT: $21k → 13%CUYAHOGA FALLS POLICE DEPARTMENT: $18k → 13%AKRON POLICE DEPARTMENT ANTI-VIOLENCE UNIT: $15k → 13%SAFETY FORCES SUPPORT CENTER - COUNSELING GRANT: $10k → 13%SPRINGFIELD POLICE DEPARTMENT: $12k → 13%SOUTH SUMMIT FIRE CHIEFS: $12k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$160k · 3 repeat orgs$120k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
5

Total granted

$160k
$65k

Still filing today

67%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’24
Public BenefitEducationOther
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

  • SF
    SAFETY FORCES SUPPORT CENTER
    2× · 2019–2020 · $56k · revenue +2%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +70%
  • SF
    SAFETY FORCES SUPPORT CENTER - COUNSELING GRANT
    4× · 2021–2024 · $49k

Funded once

  • AF
    AKRON FOP #7
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • CF
    COVENTRY FIRE DEPARTMENT - TRAINING ROOM
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • CO
    CITY OF AKRON
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
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
04the grantee network

2 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. 2 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
2/2
Grantees still filing
2/2
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAFETY FORCES SUPPORT CENTER - COUNSELING GRANT: $48,801 · OtherSAFETY FORCES SUPPORT CENTER - COUNSELING GRANTAKRON FOP #7: $24,728 · OtherAKRON FOP #7SUMMIT COUNTY FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIAT ION: $19,299 · OtherSUMMIT COUNTY FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIAT IONCOVENTRY FIRE DEPARTMENT - TRAINING ROOM: $15,483 · OtherCOVENTRY FIRE DEPARTMENT - TRAINING ROOMCITY OF AKRON: $15,139 · OtherCITY OF AKRONCITY OF STOW: $12,059 · OtherCITY OF STOWSPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES: $12,000 · OtherSPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP TRUSTEESSPRINGFIELD POLICE DEPARTMENT: $11,500 · OtherSPRINGFIELD POLICE DEPARTMENT+2 more: $10,000 · Other+2 moreSAFETY FORCES SUPPORT CENTER: $56,000 · Public BenefitSAFETY FORCES SUPPORT …THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION: $55,050 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF AKRO…
Other$169,009Public Benefit$56,000Education$55,050

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAFETY FORCES SUPPORT CENTER: $56,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION: $55,050 over 6y, 0.1% of budget
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.

  • Who funds SAFETY FORCES SUPPORT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bluecoats Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bluecoats Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Bluecoats’ filings →

    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