New York · Private foundation
Cole Family Foundation
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.
- $55k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 73%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 73% of the organizations Cole Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 56% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $55k | 67% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $58k | 73% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $115k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $83k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $89k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $5k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $2k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Student Leadership Network Inc | $44,700 | 3 | 0% |
| Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence | $27,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sandy Hook Promise Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sundance Institute | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Doe Fund Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Children's Museum of Manhattan | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pen American Center Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Friends of the Art Buchwald Collect Ion | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Central Synagogue | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 50 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($62k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cole Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Cole Family Foundation
- How much does Cole Family Foundation give?
- Cole Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $55,150 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Cole Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (23%), Crime & Legal (17%), Youth Development (12%).
- Who are Cole Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Student Leadership Network Inc ($45k), Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence ($27k), Sandy Hook Promise Foundation ($25k).
- Does Cole Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 73% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cole Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Cole Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, The New York Community Trust.
- Where is Cole Family Foundation based?
- Cole Family Foundation is based in NY.
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