· Private foundation
Coleman Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $209k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 3RD STREET ALLIANCE | $31,904 |
| BOSTON AREA GLEANERS | $25,000 |
| HOPEWELL FUND | $25,000 |
| BOSTON HARBOR NOW | $20,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FED OF AMERICA | $17,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL | $17,000 |
| CALVARY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $15,000 |
| TEMPLE UNIVERSITY | $13,000 |
| CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY | $12,000 |
| XERCES SOCIETY | $12,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $11,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO-MARIN FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| NORTH PHILLY COMMUNITY CHURCH | $9,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,000 |
| EDDIE'S RANCH | $8,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 16% of Coleman Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 28% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 23%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
46 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 11 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WHWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION2× · 2019–2023 · $60k · revenue +32%
BOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC4× · 2020–2024 · $58k · revenue +296%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC7× · 2017–2024 · $50k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- AHANIMAL HOPE AND WELLNESS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -69%
- TKTHE KEVIN GRAY MUSICAL ENDOW FNDone grant, 2019 · $10k
- TKTHE KEVIN GRAY MUSICAL THEATERone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
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.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
How this is measured
69 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. 69 of the 107 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds BOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON HARBOR NOW INC ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals International ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds NEW SANCTUARY MOVEMENT OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL HOPE AND WELLNESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Philadelphia Tennis Club ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN LAW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UC GREEN INC ↗
- Who funds XERCES SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds RARE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds WEAVERS WAY COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ↗
- Who funds WAGNER FREE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds EDDIE'S RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds Restorative Justice Project Maine ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds TREE HOUSE BOOKS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Coleman Resid Tw · The Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Connelly Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Philadelphia City Fund Inc · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Cigna Group Foundation · Arbella Insurance Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Coleman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Coleman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
- Boston Harbor Now Inc: 45% of income from government
- Xerces Society Inc: 22% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- Boston Area Gleaners Inc: 20% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
- Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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