· Private foundation
Cold Stream Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOLY CROSS MISSION CENTER | $10,000 |
| NEMBA | $7,000 |
| NO OFF SEASON FELLOWSHIP | $5,000 |
| MISFITS REHAB | $5,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY | $2,500 |
| BIG BROTHERBIG SISTER | $2,000 |
| COLT TRUST | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| THE HAVEN | $200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +77% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TITHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC5× · 2017–2021 · $14k · revenue +135%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2022 · $10k · revenue +105%
- BABAYSIDE ACADEMY INC2× · 2017–2018 · $5k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- CGCHILDREN GARDEN OF LEARNING IN VAIL COLORADOone grant, 2020 · $8k
JUDICIAL WATCH INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +22%- PCPRINCETON CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTEone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +24%
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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
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Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The mission is "to understand the natural world and inspire everyone to care for it." the academy implements its mission through understanding the diversity of life; developing and applying science to protect the environment; and informing…
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Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
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We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 38 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds The Colt Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds BAYSIDE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Chebeague & Cumberland Land Trust ↗
- Who funds FALMOUTH CONSERVATION TRUST DBA FALMOUTH LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Princeton Future Inc ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JUNIOR TENNIS & LEARNING OF TRENTON INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cold Stream Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cold Stream Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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