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Coleman Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$19k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$68kHealth$43kRecreation & Sports$26kEnvironment$5kReligion$4kHuman Services$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
$14,301
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOPE COLLEGE ENDOWMENT FUND$14,301
TRINITY HEALTH AT HOME HOSPICE$5,000
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 (FY17–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SAMARITAS: $1k → 8%PARKINSON'S ASSOCIATION OF WEST MICHIGAN: $2k → 11%PARKINSON'S ASSOCIATION OF WEST MICHIGAN: $2k → 11%PARKINSON'S ASSOCIATION OF WEST MICHIGAN: $2k → 11%ALTERNATIVES IN MOTION: $1k → 11%ALTERNATIVES IN MOTION: $1k → 11%PARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF WEST MICHIGAN: $500 → 11%PARKINSONS ASSOCIATION OF WEST MICHIGAN: $500 → 11%ALTERNATIVES IN MOTION: $250 → 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.
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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$102k · 7 repeat orgs$51k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
13

Total granted

$102k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+30%

Still filing today

57%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
HealthHuman ServicesEducationOther
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

  • MS
    MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $50k
  • HC
    HOLLAND COMMUNITY AQUATIC CENTER
    6× · 2019–2024 · $26k
  • CH
    COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN
    2× · 2019–2020 · $10k

Funded once

  • OA
    OTTAGON ADDICTIONS RECOVERY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • UF
    UNIVERSAL FOREST PRODUCTS FOUDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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
Parkinson's Foundation Inc

Make life better for people with parkinson's disease by improving care and advancing research toward a cure.

Health
2
Parkinson's Disease Research Society

Research to find a cure for parkinson's disease.

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3
Parkinson Foundation
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4
Light of Day Foundation Inc

The foundation's mission is to fund research into possible cures, improved treatments and support patients who suffer from parkinson's disease, psp and als, and to assist their families and their caregivers to help improve their quality of…

Health
5
Neurocures Foundation Inc

To transform the lives of patients with neurological diseases including alzheimer's, parkinson's, lou gehrig's disease, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord and acquired head injury with collaborative translational research. the halo effect is…

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6
Foundation for Mitochondrial Medicine Inc

To hasten the development of effective treatments for mitochondrial disease.

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7
Nicole Jarvis Md Parkinsons Research Foundation Inc

To support research for a cure for parkinson's disease through the michael j. fox foundation.

Health
8
Institute for Neurodegenerative Disorders

Medical research to learn about causes and possible cures for neurodegenerative disorders such as alzheimer and parkinson disorder.

Health
9
Dystonia Medical Research Foundation

The foundation has three main purposes: (1)to advance dystonia research by awarding grants to basic, translational, and clinical investigators and to medical/scientific institutions committed to finding the cause and cure for all forms of…

Health
10
Fox in the D

To raise funds in support of the michael j fox foundation for parkinson's disease research in order to find a cure; to raise awareness of parkinson's disease in the metro detroit area; to help support patients and their loved ones who face…

Health
11
Michigan State Medical Society Foundation

To advance the field of health for the public good.

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12
Open Medicine Foundation

Funds collaborative medical research and education for multi-system chronic complex diseases.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Renew Mobility. 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

12 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. 12 of the 22 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYHOLLAND COMMUNITY AQUATIC CENTER: $25,500 · OtherHOLLAND COMMUNITY AQUATIC CENTERHOPE COLLEGE ENDOWMENT FUND: $14,301 · OtherHOPE COLLEGE ENDOWMENT FUNDOTTAGON ADDICTIONS RECOVERY INC: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherUNIVERSAL FOREST PRODUCTS FOUDATION: $5,000 · OtherTRINITY HEALTH AT HOME HOSPICE: $5,000 · Other+5 more: $8,350 · Other+5 moreCOREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN: $10,000 · HealthCOREWELL HEALTH…MARCH OF DIMES INC: $5,250 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES …MICHIGAN PARKINSON FOUNDATION: $3,703 · HealthMICHIGAN PARKIN…THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $1,500 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J F…HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE FOUNDATION: $770 · Health+1 more: $250 · HealthPARKINSON'S ASSOCIATION OF WEST MICHIGAN: $6,394 · Human ServicesRENEW MOBILITY: $2,275 · Human ServicesSAMARITAS: $1,000 · Human ServicesHOPE COLLEGE: $3,500 · Education
Other$118,151Health$21,473Human Services$9,669Education$3,500

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 budgetPARKINSON'S ASSOCIATION OF WEST MICHIGAN: $6,394 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $5,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMICHIGAN PARKINSON FOUNDATION: $3,703 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE COLLEGE: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRENEW MOBILITY: $2,275 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSUSAN MAST ALS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTINGTON'S DISEASE FOUNDATION: $770 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $250 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.

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.

Grand Rapids Communit…Raymond James Charita…The Pfizer Foundation…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Grand Rapids Community FoundationMI15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving 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 Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Coleman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
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
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 22 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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