Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Colcom Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $21M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 137
- Grants FY2025
- 104
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 104 to 139
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $486M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations Colcom Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 103 | $21M | 100% |
| FY2024 | 104 | $22M | 16% |
| FY2023 | 114 | $23M | 31% |
| FY2022 | 107 | $21M | 46% |
| FY2021 | 139 | $25M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pittsburgh Cultural Trust | $1,150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds | $705,000 | 1 | 26% |
| Westmoreland County Community College Education Foundation Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The National Sporting Library and Museum | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 339 recipients with no EIN on record ($110M), not named here.
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About Colcom Foundation
- How much does Colcom Foundation give?
- Colcom Foundation reported 137 grants totaling $21,037,846 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 104 and 139 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Colcom Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (38%), Environment (22%), Science & Tech (11%).
- Who are Colcom Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Pittsburgh Cultural Trust ($1.1M), Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds ($705k), Westmoreland County Community College Education Foundation Inc ($30k).
- Does Colcom Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Colcom Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Where is Colcom Foundation based?
- Colcom Foundation is based in PA.
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