Skip to content

· Public charity

Coleman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth

Coleman builds the leadership and power of low-income and working-class BIPOC children, youth, and families in San Francisco to advance racial and economic justice in our schools and our city.

$137k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Youth Development$162kCommunity Improvement$8kCivil Rights$7kArts & Culture$6kHuman Services$6k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $20,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $137,332 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $117,332 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Coleman Action Fund$20,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%InnerCity Struggle: $6k → 14%Unlocking Futures Inc: $14k → 17%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.
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 field
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 7 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
1/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLEMAN ACTION FUND FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH: $140,000 · OtherCOLEMAN ACTION FUND FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTHWorld Interdependence Fund dba Tower of Youth: $8,000 · OtherWorld Interdependence Fund dba Tower of YouthUNLOCKING FUTURES INC: $14,000 · Human ServicesUNLOCKING FUTURE…PUENTE HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT: $6,800 · Human ServicesPUENTE HUMAN RIG…INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $6,200 · Human ServicesINNERCITY STRUGG…BRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL: $8,100 · Community ImprovementTENANTS AND WORKERS UNITED: $6,200 · Arts & Culture
Other$148,000Human Services$27,000Community Improvement$8,100Arts & Culture$6,200

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNLOCKING FUTURES INC: $14,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL: $8,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPUENTE HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT: $6,800 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTENANTS AND WORKERS UNITED: $6,200 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetINNERCITY STRUGGLE: $6,200 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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 Schott Foundation for Public EducationMA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Schott Foundation for Public Education · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Coleman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Coleman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.
    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Coleman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth?

    Find your warmest path to Coleman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 7 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Coleman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth’s filings →

    More from the funding graph