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Cole Foundation Robert H & Monica M at a glance

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Cole Foundation Robert H & Monica M

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$319k
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$175k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$1.4MEducation$327kArts & Culture$320kPhilanthropy$270kReligion$79kHuman Services$47kRecreation & Sports$22kEnvironment$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k24 grants · $61k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $83k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $175k
$3,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE MEDICAL CENTER$175,000
NORTHERN PIEDMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$30,000
BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL$12,500
FOUR ARTS SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH$10,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS LOS ANGELES$10,000
THE HIGHLAND SCHOOL$10,000
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$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
METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION$4,000
US FRIENDS OF HOEDSPRUIT$4,000
RED WIGGLER FOUNDATION$3,500
NYPWCMC$3,000
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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE HIGHLAND SCHOOL: $10k → 6%FAMILY SERVICES: $30k → 8%THE HIGHLAND SCHOOL: $10k → 6%FAMILY SERVICES: $30k → 8%FAMILY SERVICES: $30k → 8%FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 8%FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 8%FAMILY SERVICES: $7k → 8%RED WIGGLER FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%RED WIGGLER FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%RED WIGGLER FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%RED WIGGLER FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%RED WIGGLER FOUNDATION: $4k → 8%RED WIGGLER FOUNDATION: $4k → 8%ROOTS AND WINGS INC: $5k → 11%ROOTS AND WINGS INC: $4k → 11%ROOTS AND WINGS INC: $4k → 11%ROOTS AND WINGS INC: $4k → 11%ROOTS AND WINGS INC: $2k → 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

ME
NY
CA
VA
MD
TN
DC
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 42 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
5

Total granted

$2.3M
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+272%

Still filing today

67%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsCrime & LegalOther
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

  • UH
    UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +79%
  • TB
    THE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $150k · revenue +47%
  • FS
    FAMILY SERVICES INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $137k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • OB
    OLDIES BUT GOODIES COCKER RESCUE INC
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +3%
  • KR
    KNINE RESCUE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
  • ME
    MID-ATLANTIC ENGLISH SPRINGER
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
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

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.

1
New York Botanical Garden

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…

Environment
2
Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery

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.

Arts & Culture
3
The Pierpont Morgan Library

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.

Education
4
Rhode Island School of Design

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…

Education
5
Avery Coonley School

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.

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6
New York School of Interior Design

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…

Education
7
United States Naval Institute

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.

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8
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

See schedule o for the organization's mission statement.please see description for part i, line 1, above.

Arts & Culture
9
Saint Anselm College

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…

Education
10
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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11
Hampden-Sydney College

Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.

Education
12
University of New Haven

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Services Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 50 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
23/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $1,201,000 · HealthUNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC+3 more: $36,000 · HealthIndividual grant recipient: $90,000 · OtherIndividual grant …SMITHSONIAN LIBRARIES: $74,000 · OtherSMITHSONIAN LIBRA…ST PAULS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $32,200 · OtherST PAULS EPISCOPA…AMERICAN SOCIETY ORDER OF ST JOHN: $24,000 · OtherAMERICAN SOCIETY …ST JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $23,000 · OtherST JAMES EPISCOPA…FOUR ARTS SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH: $22,500 · OtherFOUR ARTS SOCIETY…NYPWCMC: $17,000 · OtherUS FRIENDS OF HOEDSPRUIT: $13,000 · OtherTHE DOORWAYS: $13,000 · Other+13 more: $79,550 · Other+13 moreTHE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INC: $149,500 · EducationTHE BLUE RID…WAKEFIELD COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $100,000 · EducationWAKEFIELD CO…+6 more: $35,000 · Education+6 moreNORTHERN PIEDMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $270,000 · PhilanthropyNORTHERN PI…FAMILY SERVICES INC: $137,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY SE…RED WIGGLER FOUNDATION INC: $27,000 · Human ServicesRED WIGGL…HIGHLAND SCHOOL INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesHIGHLAND …Roots and Wings Inc: $19,000 · Human ServicesRoots and…+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesKNOXVILLE OPERA COMPANY: $75,000 · Arts & CultureAmerican Museum of Natural History: $51,700 · Arts & CultureThe Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc: $22,000 · Arts & CultureMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $17,300 · Arts & CultureTHE GLASS-GLEN BURNIE MUSEUM INC: $8,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $4,000 · Arts & CultureCocker Spaniel Adoption Center Inc: $3,000 · AnimalsOLDIES BUT GOODIES COCKER RESCUE INC: $2,500 · AnimalsAtlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc: $1,000 · Animals
Health$1,237,000Other$388,250Education$284,500Philanthropy$270,000Human Services$208,000Arts & Culture$178,000Animals$6,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $1,201,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN PIEDMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $270,000 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetTHE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INC: $149,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES INC: $137,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWAKEFIELD COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetKNOXVILLE OPERA COMPANY: $75,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $51,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Virginia Home: $29,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRED WIGGLER FOUNDATION INC: $27,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetThe Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc: $22,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHIGHLAND SCHOOL INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRoots and Wings Inc: $19,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $17,300 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPROUTS NECK ASSOCIATION: $11,500 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetTHE GLASS-GLEN BURNIE MUSEUM INC: $8,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetST JAMES'S CHILDREN'S CENTER: $8,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY AND MUSEUM: $8,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetRIVERSIDE SCHOOL INC: $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOLNEY HELP INC: $5,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSt Andrew's School: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCocker Spaniel Adoption Center Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetNORTHSTAR ACADEMY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEUE GALERIE NEW YORK: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER RICHMOND SCAN - STOP CHILD ABUSE NOW INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAtlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 GLASS-GLEN BURNIE MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JAMES'S CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY AND MUSEUM ↗
  • 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 NORTHSTAR ACADEMY 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.

The Community Foundat…Richard S Reynolds Fo…Massey Family Foundat…Guilford FoundationShelton H Short Jr Tr…The Pauley Family Fou…Robert G Cabell III a…Herndon FoundationThe Mary Morton Parso…The McGue Millhiser F…The Charles M Caravat…The Harrison Foundati…
The Community Foundation IncVA20.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Cole Foundation Robert H & Monica M funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cole Foundation Robert H & Monica M. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.

    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 50 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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