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Coleman Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k33 grants · $95k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $258k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAINT ANNS SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| BROOKLYN HEIGHTS SYNAGOGUE | $50,000 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC | $25,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF AMHERST COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| STEEP ROCK ASSOCIATION INC | $20,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS | $20,000 |
| BARD HIGH SCHOOL EARLY COLLEGE QUEENS | $20,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC | $20,000 |
| SAINT ANNS SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| RED HOOK INITIATIVE | $15,000 |
| ST ANDREWS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL INC | $13,000 |
| BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC | $10,000 |
| BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $144k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- SASAINT ANN'S SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $552k · revenue +36%
- SRSTEEP ROCK ASSOCIATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $223k · revenue +453%
- HCHEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC7× · 2018–2024 · $178k · revenue +17%
Funded once
SHARE OUR STRENGTHgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +60%- FOFRIENDS OF THE SCARSDALE LIBRARY INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -84%
UNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INCone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -42%
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.
Brooklyn bridge park corporation's mission, d/b/a brooklyn bridge park ("bbp") mission is to provide an exceptional public space that connects people, nature, and the waterfront, through inclusive, innovative, and sustainable management…
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…
To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To provide excellent healthcare services without regard to age, sex, race, creed, national origin or disability; to serve as an educational and research center for physicians, nurses and healthcare professionals; to provide health…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Side Center for Community Life and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee 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 39 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 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
69 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. 69 of the 79 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 SAINT ANN'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds STEEP ROCK ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds 70 FACES MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds RED HOOK INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds The New York and Presbyterian Hospital ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Hartford Hospital ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSATONIC VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds OFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Book Festival ↗
- Who funds The Children's Health Fund ↗
- Who funds The Rogosin Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds GUNN MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds Danbury Hospital & New Milford Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds PREP FOR PREP ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HOUSING AND SERVICES ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC 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: Brooklyn Community Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · The Wenden Foundation · The Kestrel Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Open Society Institute · Fjc · Murray & Susan Haber Charitable Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust
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 Coleman Family Charitable 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.
- Housatonic Valley Association Inc — 38% of income from government
- Steep Rock Association Inc — 19% of income from government
- Health Care for the Homeless Inc — 2% of income from government
- Hartford Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 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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