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Colemere 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.

$72k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Philanthropy$454kInternational$118kArts & Culture$44kEducation$30kReligion$11kCrime & Legal$10kCivil Rights$5kFood & Nutrition$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$977k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LDS PHILANTHROPIES$40,000
ENGAGE NOW AFRICA$15,000
HALE CENTRE THEATRE$10,000
THANKSGIVING POINT INSTITUTE$5,000
UVU WOMENS SUCCESS CENTER$2,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–21, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ELIZABETH SMART FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%ELIZABETH SMART FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$659k · 11 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +89% since the first grant, against -26% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
3

Total granted

$659k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+89%
-26%

Still filing today

91%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalPhilanthropyEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesReligionOther

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

  • EN
    ENGAGE NOW AFRICA INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $77k · revenue +98%
  • HC
    HALE CENTRE THEATRE
    7× · 2018–2024 · $44k · revenue +97%
  • SA
    ScenicView Academy
    3× · 2018–2020 · $20k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • SI
    Sutherland Institute
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -26%
  • N
    NAACP
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Girls Foundation of Tanzania

The Girls Foundation of Tanzania provides educational support for bright girls who would otherwise be unable to continue their education beyond primary school. Our support includes tuition scholarship, learning opportunities outside of the…

Human Services
2
Phase Alliance

Prevention and Healing Against Sexual Exploitation (PHASE). PHASE Alliance represents three nationally recognized organizations, Fight the New Drug, the Elizabeth Smart Foundation, and the Malouf Foundation, working together to address the…

Crime & Legal
3
The Center for Economic Opportunity and Belonging

Our mission is to engage with communities and catalyze private, public, and philanthropic partnerships to remedy opportunity gaps in economic opportunity, education, health, and housing in Utah.

Community Improvement
4
Timanous Foundation

Timanous Foundation is dedicated to providing a camp life that builds character and has lasting value for every boy.

Youth Development
5
The Sierra Fund

The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.

Environment
6
Unitus Labs

Unitus Labs provides consulting support loans grants and investments to partner organizations who are implementing innovative market-based approaches to reducing global poverty with potential for very large scale impact.

International
7
Saltexchange Inc

SaltExchange is a national community of philanthropists united by a shared mission to work collectively to address some of the world's most urgent and complex challenges. We equip donors with the data, tools, and strategic partnerships…

Philanthropy
8
Timpanogos Academy Foundation

To establish a school where each student gains the scholarly knowledge and skills vital to becoming a self-motivated, lifelong learner and to succeed in the rapidly evolving and complex world. This mission will be accomplished by using the…

Education
9
National Kidney Foundation of Utah & Idaho

The National Kidney Foundation of Utah & Idaho, a major nonprofit health organization, is dedicated to preventing diseases of the kidney, improving the health and wellbeing of individuals and families affected by kidney disease, and…

Health
10
Child Liberation Foundation Inc

The Child Liberation Foundation (CLF), founded in February 2017, is dedicated to eradicating child trafficking worldwide. In 2023, CLF expanded its mission beyond rescue operations to emphasize rehabilitation and healing for survivors of…

Human Services
11
Asha Partners

To eliminate poverty through the creation of sustainable and effective community development projects, and to create holistic transformation by bringing hope, empowerment, and healing to those with the greatest need.

Religion
12
EcoAdapt

EcoAdapt, founded by a team of some of the earliest adaptation thinkers and practitioners in the field, has one goal - creating a robust future in the face of climate change. We bring together diverse players to reshape planning and…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ouelessebougou Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Malouf Foundation. 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

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LDS PHILANTHROPIES — $432,500 · OtherLDS PHILANTHROPIES+3 more — $12,000 · OtherENGAGE NOW AFRICA INC — $77,000 · InternationalENGAGE NOW AFRICA I…OUELESSEBOUGOU ALLIANCE — $25,000 · InternationalOUELESSEBOUGOU ALLI…Tifie Humanitarian — $16,000 · InternationalTifie HumanitarianHALE CENTRE THEATRE — $43,500 · Arts & CultureScenicView Academy — $20,000 · EducationSutherland Institute — $5,000 · EducationUTAH VALLEY REFUGEES INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyMalouf Foundation — $10,000 · PhilanthropyMIRACLE OF AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION — $4,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,000 · PhilanthropyBOOK OF MORMON CENTRAL — $11,000 · ReligionElizabeth Smart Foundation — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHANKSGIVING POINT INSTITUTE INC — $5,000 · Environment
Other$444,500International$118,000Arts & Culture$43,500Education$25,000Philanthropy$25,000Religion$11,000Human Services$10,000Environment$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetENGAGE NOW AFRICA INC — $77,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetHALE CENTRE THEATRE — $43,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOUELESSEBOUGOU ALLIANCE — $25,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetScenicView Academy — $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTifie Humanitarian — $16,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBOOK OF MORMON CENTRAL — $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUTAH VALLEY REFUGEES INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetElizabeth Smart Foundation — $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMalouf Foundation — $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSutherland Institute — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHANKSGIVING POINT INSTITUTE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIRACLE OF AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · The Ashton Family Foundation · Beesley Family Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Colemere 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report 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, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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