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Coleman Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Coleman Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
43
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$7.9MHealth$2.2MCommunity Improvement$1.0MPhilanthropy$571kReligion$528kHuman Services$445kArts & Culture$204kRecreation & Sports$100kOther$0
02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $365k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $731k
  • $250k+2 grants · $2.0M
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$10.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$1,000,000
PITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$1,000,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS$150,000
GIRARD MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$150,000
COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS$100,000
FRONTENAC PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$100,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS$75,000
PITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$55,500
ST MARY'S COLGAN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS$25,000
VALLEY HOPE FOUNDATION$25,000
PITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$25,000
THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION$25,000
CRAWFOD COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM$25,000
CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF WICHITA$25,000
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 (FY20–25, $400k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BRANDON BURLSWORTH FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%SAFESPACE INC: $10k → 10%CAMP WOOD YMCA: $7k → 11%THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $5k → 16%FOUNDATION FOR CLASS INC: $10k → 16%BRANDON BURLSWORTH FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%SAFESPACE: $10k → 10%CAMP WOOD YMCA: $7k → 11%THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $5k → 16%THE FOUNDATION FOR CLASS INC: $10k → 16%BRANDON BURLSWORTH FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%SAFESPACE: $10k → 10%CAMP WOOD YMCA: $7k → 11%THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $5k → 16%THE FOUNDATION FOR CLASS: $10k → 16%BRANDON BURLSWORTH FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%SAFESPACE: $10k → 10%CAMP WOOD YMCA: $7k → 11%THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $5k → 16%THE FOUNDATION FOR CLASS INC: $10k → 16%BRANDON BURLSWORTH FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%SAFESPACE: $5k → 10%CAMP WOOD YMCA: $7k → 11%THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $5k → 16%THE FOUNDATION FOR CLASS INC: $10k → 16%BRANDON BURLSWORTH FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%THE FOUNDATION FOR CLASS INC: $5k → 16%FOSTERING CONNECTIONS: $15k → 18%FOSTERING CONNECTIONS: $10k → 18%HOPE HOUSE INC: $5k → 15%FOSTERING CONNECTIONS: $10k → 18%HOPE HOUSE INC: $5k → 15%FOSTERING CONNECTIONS: $5k → 18%HOPE HOUSE: $5k → 15%FOSTERING CONNECTIONS: $5k → 18%HOPE HOUSE: $5k → 15%HOPE HOUSE: $5k → 15%SAFEHOUSE CRISIS CENTER: $10k → 18%SAFEHOUSE CRISIS CENTER: $10k → 18%SAFEHOUSE CRISIS CENTER: $10k → 18%SAFEHOUSE CRISIS CENTER: $10k → 18%SAFEHOUSE CRISIS CENTER INC: $10k → 18%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

MN
NY
OH
MO
KS
AR
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 41 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

41 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
12

Total granted

$11M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+40%

Still filing today

66%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $210k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureInternationalReligionOther
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

  • PS
    PITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $5.8M · revenue +95%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $725k · revenue +137%
  • TC
    The Children's Mercy Hospital
    6× · 2020–2025 · $560k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • FP
    FRONTENAC PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M
  • FA
    FAMILIES AND CHILDREN TOGETHER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue -22% · 79% of their budget
  • VL
    VICTORY LIFE CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $175k
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
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
2
Kansas Legal Services Inc

Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.

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3
Kids Crossing

Kids crossing's vision is to provide a safe and caring home for every child. our mission is to strengthen families so they may provide the best care for those children entrusted to them.

Human Services
4
Kansas Children's Foundation

The kansas children's foundation is dedicated to providing resources including financial and emotional support to children and families across the state of kansas.

Health
5
Children's Cancer Connection

Connecting families affected by childhood cancer by providing opportunities that encourage relationships and strengthen community.

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6
Kansas Children's Discovery Center Inc

The kansas children's discovery center enhances the lives of children and enriches the communities it serves.

Arts & Culture
7
Kansas Children's Service League Foundation

To protect and promote the well-being of children by providing ongoing support of the charitable mission of the kansas children's service league.

Philanthropy
8
Community Action Inc

Helping people move from poverty towards prosperity.

Human Services
9
Kansas Action for Children Inc

Kansas action for children, inc. is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to shaping health, education and economic policy that improves the lives of kansas children and their families.

Human Services
10
Jefferson Regional Foundation

The mission of the foundation is to improve the health and well-being of the communities served by jefferson hospital through engagement, community-driven research and grantmaking. there are three grantmaking priorities focused on the…

Health
11
Crossroads for Youth

We believe the children and their families in our care deserve the chance to heal by being valued in a safe environment by competent, caring professionals. camp oakland is a private, nonprofit treatment agency that serves at-risk children…

Recreation & Sports
12
Child Safe of Central Missouri Inc

Child safe of central missouri's mission is to respond to and prevent child abuse by providing advocacy, support, and resources to children who are alleged victims of abuse and other traumatic crimes, and to their non-offending family…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safespace Inc; the most unlike its peers is Joplin Regional Medical School Alliance. 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

38 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. 38 of the 61 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/38
Grantees still filing
28/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,808,000 · EducationPITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $725,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION+1 more: $100,000 · EducationFRONTENAC PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $1,000,000 · OtherFRONTENAC PUBLIC SCHOOLSMT CARMEL FOUNDATION: $520,000 · OtherMT CARMEL FOUNDATIONCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF WICHITA: $257,763 · OtherCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF WICHITACOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SE KANSAS: $245,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SE KA…GIRARD MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $230,000 · OtherGIRARD MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDAT…VICTORY LIFE CHURCH: $175,000 · Other+30 more: $1,099,500 · Other+30 moreThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $560,000 · HealthThe Childre…FAMILIES AND CHILDREN TOGETHER INC: $500,000 · HealthFAMILIES AN…COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF SE KANSAS INC: $200,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY H…INDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · HealthINDIAN RIVE…+5 more: $62,000 · HealthPOINT FORWARD INC: $1,000,000 · Community ImprovementBRANDON BURLSWORTH FOUNDATION: $60,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $60,000 · Human ServicesFOUNDATION FOR CLASS INC: $55,000 · Human ServicesSAFEHOUSE CRISIS CENTER INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesFOSTERING CONNECTIONS: $45,000 · Human ServicesSAFESPACE INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesCAMP WOOD YMCA INC: $34,700 · Human ServicesTHE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $25,000 · Human ServicesHOPE HOUSE INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Foundation of Southeast Kansas: $380,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $10,500 · PhilanthropyKIDS ACROSS AMERICA: $100,000 · Religion
Education$6,633,000Other$3,527,263Health$1,397,000Community Improvement$1,000,000Human Services$399,700Philanthropy$390,500Religion$100,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,808,000 over 6y, 10.0% of budgetPOINT FORWARD INC: $1,000,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $725,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $560,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILIES AND CHILDREN TOGETHER INC: $500,000 over 1y, 79% of budgetCommunity Foundation of Southeast Kansas: $380,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF SE KANSAS INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS ACROSS AMERICA: $100,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetJOPLIN REGIONAL MEDICAL SCHOOL ALLIANCE: $100,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetBRANDON BURLSWORTH FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOLONIAL FOX THEATRE FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CLASS INC: $55,000 over 6y, 39% of budgetLEARNING TREE INSTITUTE AT GREENBUSH: $50,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSAFEHOUSE CRISIS CENTER INC: $50,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetCHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $50,000 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetFOSTERING CONNECTIONS: $45,000 over 5y, 8.2% of budgetSAFESPACE INC: $45,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP WOOD YMCA INC: $34,700 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetROSE BROOKS CENTER INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY KANSAS: $30,000 over 6y, 7.9% of budgetHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $29,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSTILWELL HERITAGE & EDUCATIONAL: $25,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE HOUSE INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLEVELUP KIDS INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $10,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKANSAS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLITTLE BALKANS FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $5,500 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $2,000 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 PITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds POINT FORWARD INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
  • Who funds FAMILIES AND CHILDREN TOGETHER INC ↗
  • Who funds Community Foundation of Southeast Kansas ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF SE KANSAS INC ↗
  • Who funds KIDS ACROSS AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds JOPLIN REGIONAL MEDICAL SCHOOL ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds INDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BRANDON BURLSWORTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds COLONIAL FOX THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR CLASS INC ↗
  • Who funds LEARNING TREE INSTITUTE AT GREENBUSH ↗
  • Who funds SAFEHOUSE CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FOSTERING CONNECTIONS ↗
  • Who funds SAFESPACE INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMP WOOD YMCA INC ↗
  • Who funds ROSE BROOKS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY KANSAS ↗
  • Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗

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.

Commerce Bancshares F…Community Foundation …Greater Kansas City C…Servant FoundationMiller Family Foundat…Arvest FoundationPritchett FoundationRonald O Thomas Found…Kansas Health Foundat…United Way of Greater…Community Foundation …Freeman Health System
Commerce Bancshares FoundationMO34.5× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Community Foundation of Southeast Kansas · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Servant Foundation · Miller Family Foundation Inc · Arvest Foundation · Pritchett Foundation · Ronald O Thomas Foundation · Kansas Health Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · Freeman Health System

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 Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Coleman Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 25%
  • Safespace Inc: 25% of income from government
  • United Way of Indian River County Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Coleman Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Coleman Family Foundation Inc 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 61 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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