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Colcom Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$21M
Granted FY2025still arriving
137
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Civil Rights$43MEnvironment$25MScience & Tech$12MArts & Culture$8.6MAnimals$4.3MRecreation & Sports$4.1MCrime & Legal$2.5MEducation$2.5MOther$0
02FY2025 · 137 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k47 grants · $1.3M
  • $50k–250k59 grants · $5.9M
  • $250k+26 grants · $14M
$60,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$486M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLCOM - IMMIGRATION REFORM LAW INSTITUTE$2,000,000
COLCOM - PITTSBURGH TRUST FOR CULTURAL RESOURCES$1,000,000
COLCOM - NUMBERSUSA EDUCATION & RESEARCH FOUNDATION$910,000
COLCOM - - FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM$650,000
COLCOM - NUMBERSUSA EDUCATION & RESEARCH FOUNDATION$650,000
COLCOM - FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM$650,000
COLCOM - FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM$650,000
COLCOM - NUMBERSUSA EDUCATION & RESEARCH FOUNDATION$650,000
COLCOM - IMMIGRATION ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT$600,000
COLCOM - IMMIGRATION REFORM LAW INSTITUTE$575,000
COLCOM - IMMIGRATION REFORM LAW INSTITUTE$575,000
COLCOM - IMMIGRATION REFORM LAW INSTITUTE$575,000
COLCOM - ALLEGHENY LAND TRUST$450,000
COLCOM - WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY$407,000
COLCOM - CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES$400,000
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 (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%COLCOM - ARMSTRONG TRAILS INC: $250k → 13%COLCOM FOUNDATION - SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES MUSEUM OF ART: $220k → 16%COLCOM - FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION: $250k → 22%COLCOM - IMMIGRATION ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT: $600k → 14%COLCOM FOUNDATION - OGLEBAY FOUNDATION: $500k → 15%COLCOM FOUNDATION - NUMBERSUSA EDUCATION & RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $2.9M → 7%COLCOM FOUNDATION - OGLEBAY FOUNDATION: $500k → 15%COLCOM - NUMBERSUSA EDUCATION & RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $910k → 7%COLCOM FOUNDATION - SCENIC AMERICA: $300k → 14%COLCOM - FOUNDATION FOR PENNSYLVANIA WATERSHEDS: $380k → 16%COLCOM FOUNDATION - FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM: $2.6M → 14%COLCOM - NUMBERSUSA EDUCATION & RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $650k → 7%COLCOM - FOUNDATION FOR PENNSYLVANIA WATERSHEDS: $250k → 16%COLCOM FOUNDATION - IMMIGRATION REFORM LAW INSTITUTE: $2.3M → 14%COLCOM - IMMIGRATION REFORM LAW INSTITUTE: $2.0M → 14%COLCOM - NUMBERSUSA EDUCATION & RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $650k → 7%COLCOM - FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM: $650k → 14%COLCOM - - FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM: $650k → 14%COLCOM - FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM: $650k → 14%COLCOM - IMMIGRATION REFORM LAW INSTITUTE: $575k → 14%COLCOM - IMMIGRATION REFORM LAW INSTITUTE: $575k → 14%COLCOM FOUNDATION - VETERANS PLACE OF WASHINGTON BOULEVARD INC: $200k → 11%COLCOM - IMMIGRATION REFORM LAW INSTITUTE: $575k → 14%COLCOM FOUNDATION - CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES: $2.0M → 14%COLCOM FOUNDATION - IMMIGRATION RESEARCH FUND: $1.0M → 14%COLCOM - CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES: $400k → 14%COLCOM - CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES: $400k → 14%COLCOM - CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES: $400k → 14%COLCOM FOUNDATION - INSTITUTE FOR SOUND PUBLIC POLICY: $350k → 14%COLCOM - IMMIGRATION RESEARCH FUND: $250k → 14%COLCOM - IMMIGRATION RESEARCH FUND: $250k → 14%COLCOM - IMMIGRATION RESEARCH FUND: $250k → 14%COLCOM FOUNDATION - ALLEGHENY LAND TRUST: $500k → 11%COLCOM FOUNDATION - ALLEGHENY LAND TRUST: $450k → 11%COLCOM - ALLEGHENY LAND TRUST: $450k → 11%COLCOM FOUNDATION - ALLEGHENY LAND TRUST: $425k → 11%COLCOM FOUNDATION - ALLEGHENY LAND TRUST: $200k → 11%COLCOM - ALLEGHENY LAND TRUST: $200k → 11%COLCOM FOUNDATION - NATIONAL AVIARY PITTSBURGH INC: $500k → 11%COLCOM FOUNDATION - PENNSYLVANIA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $225k → 11%COLCOM - PENNSYLVANIA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $225k → 11%COLCOM - PITTSBURGH TRUST FOR CULTURAL RESOURCES: $1.0M → 11%COLCOM - WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY: $407k → 11%COLCOM FOUNDATION - WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY: $383k → 11%COLCOM - PITTSBURGH DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP: $250k → 11%COLCOM FOUNDATION - PITTSBURGH DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP: $250k → 11%COLCOM - WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY: $250k → 11%COLCOM FOUNDATION - PITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY: $300k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
IL
MI
NY
OH
PA
CA
CO
WV
VA
NC
DC
HI
FL
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$82M · 129 repeat orgs$30M to everyone else

129 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 129 since wound down; 103 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

129
111

Total granted

$82M
$9.2M

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
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

  • CF
    COLCOM FOUNDATION - FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
    4× · 2021–2024 · $11M
  • CF
    COLCOM FOUNDATION - NUMBERSUSA EDUCATION & RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $11M
  • CF
    COLCOM FOUNDATION - IMMIGRATION REFORM LAW INSTITUTE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $9.2M

Funded once

  • CF
    COLCOM FOUNDATION - COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY - EDUCATION FOUND
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M
  • CF
    COLCOM FOUNDATION - OGLEBAY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $1.0M
  • CF
    COLCOM FOUNDATION - ASPINWALL RIVERFRONT PARK
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M
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

4 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. 4 of the 343 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/4
Grantees still filing
1/4
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLCOM FOUNDATION - FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM: $11,150,000 · OtherCOLCOM FOUNDATION - FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORMCOLCOM FOUNDATION - NUMBERSUSA EDUCATION & RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $11,114,485 · OtherCOLCOM FOUNDATION - NUMBERSUSA EDUCATION & RESEARCH FOUNDATIONCOLCOM FOUNDATION - IMMIGRATION REFORM LAW INSTITUTE: $9,225,000 · OtherCOLCOM FOUNDATION - IMMIGRATION REFORM LAW INSTITUTECOLCOM FOUNDATION - CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES: $8,007,800 · OtherCOLCOM FOUNDATION - CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIESCOLCOM - IMMIGRATION REFORM LAW INSTITUTE: $3,725,000 · Other+193 more: $63,269,225 · Other+193 morePITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST: $1,150,000 · Arts & CultureFOUNDATION FOR PENNSYLVANIA WATERSHEDS: $705,000 · Environment
Other$106,491,510Arts & Culture$1,150,000Environment$705,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOUNDATION FOR PENNSYLVANIA WATERSHEDS: $705,000 over 1y, 26% 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 PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR PENNSYLVANIA WATERSHEDS ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%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
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Colcom Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Colcom 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.

    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 343 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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