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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN | $15,000 |
| STUDENT LEADERSHIP NETWORK | $9,850 |
| FIT FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| PEN AMERICA | $5,000 |
| THE BRONX DEFENDERS | $3,800 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD BANK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| THE WAYUU TAYA FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| HUNTER COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| FIT FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| MYRIAD USA | $500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Cole Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 59% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 55% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 8 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, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SLSTUDENT LEADERSHIP NETWORK INC3× · 2023–2025 · $45k · revenue -21%
- HUHELP USA2× · 2021–2024 · $31k
THE DOE FUND INC2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- BCBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $27k · revenue +106%
Sundance Instituteone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -7%
SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -4%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…
The Knight First Amendment Institute defends the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, public advocacy and public education. Our aim is to promote a system of free expression that is…
The leadership foundation, inc. (the foundation), established in 1990, is the mechanism by which iwf members advance the next generation of women leaders. the foundation accelerates the careers of top-performing women by offering…
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The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
This institute, unlike many institutions concerned with law and public affairs, will not devote itself to advocacy or lobbying, to litigation, or to holding large-scale public events. rather, it will focus on collaboration with established…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison Inc and the most unlike its peers is Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 62 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds STUDENT LEADERSHIP NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds Sundance Institute ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DOE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN ↗
- Who funds PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JON BON JOVI SOUL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds EXPECT MIRACLES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REDFORD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds SHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARCH FOR OUR LIVES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRIBECA FILM INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FIGURE SKATING IN HARLEM INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds EXPLORING THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRONX DEFENDERS ↗
- Who funds ACCESS REPRODUCTIVE CARE - SOUTHEAST ↗
- Who funds SURVIVORS EMPOWERED INC ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM ↗
- Who funds HUDSON LINK FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN PRISON INC ↗
- Who funds SESAME WORKSHOP ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Cole Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc — 3% of income from government
- Sheriff's Meadow Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Playhouse Inc — 2% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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