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Colbert Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$10k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 10
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$222k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Colbert Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationPublic BenefitHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving1$10k0%
FY20231$62k100%
FY20221$50k0%
FY20214$105k0%
FY20203$113k33%
FY20195$12k20%
FY201810$231k50%
FY20179$66kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$352kEducation$280kPublic Benefit$13kHousing & Shelter$2kCivil Rights$800International$500Human Services$100

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Mississippi Foundation$200,00020%
Lakeland Presbyterian Church$178,5006n/a
Reformed Theological Seminary$100,00010%
Hartfield Academy Inc$79,62021%
Lakeside Presbyterian Church$72,0002n/a
Conservative Partnership Institute$12,5001n/a
Gateway Rescue Mission Inc$1,95240%
French Camp Academy$70030%
Young America's Foundation$70020%
Judicial Watch Inc$50010%
Show all 14 grantees
All grantees of Colbert Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Mississippi Foundation$200,00020%
Lakeland Presbyterian Church$178,5006n/a
Reformed Theological Seminary$100,00010%
Hartfield Academy Inc$79,62021%
Lakeside Presbyterian Church$72,0002n/a
Conservative Partnership Institute$12,5001n/a
Gateway Rescue Mission Inc$1,95240%
French Camp Academy$70030%
Young America's Foundation$70020%
Judicial Watch Inc$50010%
Samaritan's Purse$50010%
African Bible Colleges Inc$20010%
National Pro-Life Alliance Inc$10010%
Graham Windham$10010%

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($2k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Colbert Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Mississippi Foundation: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetReformed Theological Seminary: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHartfield Academy Inc: $79,620 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGateway Rescue Mission Inc: $1,952 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFrench Camp Academy: $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJudicial Watch Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAfrican Bible Colleges Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Pro-Life Alliance Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGraham Windham: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Ergon Foundation IncMS15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ergon Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Colbert Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Colbert Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Colbert Foundation

How much does Colbert Foundation give?
Colbert Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $10,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Colbert Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (54%), Education (43%), Public Benefit (2%).
Who are Colbert Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Mississippi Foundation ($200k), Lakeland Presbyterian Church ($179k), Reformed Theological Seminary ($100k).
Does Colbert Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Colbert Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Colbert Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ergon Foundation Inc, Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is Colbert Foundation based?
Colbert Foundation is based in MS.

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 17 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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