· Private foundation
Cole Foundation Robert H & Monica M
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $83k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE MEDICAL CENTER | $175,000 |
| NORTHERN PIEDMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL | $12,500 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS LOS ANGELES | $10,000 |
| FOUR ARTS SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $10,000 |
| THE HIGHLAND SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| SMITHSONIAN LIBRARIES | $8,000 |
| ROOTS AND WINGS INC | $5,000 |
| ST PAULS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN SOCIETY ORDER OF ST JOHN | $4,000 |
| US FRIENDS OF HOEDSPRUIT | $4,000 |
| METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION | $4,000 |
| RED WIGGLER FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| NYPWCMC | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $203k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
42 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 14 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- UHUNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +79%
- TBTHE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $150k · revenue +47%
- FSFAMILY SERVICES INC6× · 2017–2022 · $137k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- OBOLDIES BUT GOODIES COCKER RESCUE INCone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +3%
- KRKNINE RESCUE INCone grant, 2023 · $2k
- MEMID-ATLANTIC ENGLISH SPRINGERone grant, 2017 · $1k
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 new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
The huntington library, art museum, and botanical gardens shares its world-renowned collections to support scholarship, foster learning, inspire creativity, and offer transformative experiences for diverse audiences.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
The Avery Coonley School elevates high-achieving and gifted learners through immersion in a mutually talented community where intellect, curiosity, and creativity are enhanced by optimal challenge.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
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.
See schedule o for the organization's mission statement.please see description for part i, line 1, above.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.
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 Family Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Neue Galerie New York. 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 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 50 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 UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN PIEDMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WAKEFIELD COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds KNOXVILLE OPERA COMPANY ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds The Virginia Home ↗
- Who funds RED WIGGLER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Roots and Wings Inc ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds PROUTS NECK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY AND MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ST JAMES'S CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE GLASS-GLEN BURNIE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds OLNEY HELP INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds St Andrew's School ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation ↗
- Who funds Cocker Spaniel Adoption Center Inc ↗
- Who funds OLDIES BUT GOODIES COCKER RESCUE INC ↗
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: The Community Foundation Inc · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Massey Family Foundation · Guilford Foundation · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · The Pauley Family Foundation · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · Herndon Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · The McGue Millhiser Family Trust James McN Millhiser Trustee · The Charles M Caravati Foundation Fund · The Harrison Foundation
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 Foundation Robert H & Monica M 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.