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Colemere Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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 (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. Its 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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +97% since the first grant, against -26% for those 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

+97%
-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
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

  • 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 +121%

Funded once

  • N
    NAACP
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • SI
    Sutherland Institute
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -26%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ouelessebougou Alliance; 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 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. 13 of the 17 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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 budgetElizabeth Smart Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUTAH VALLEY REFUGEES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% 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
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.

Sorenson Legacy Found…The Ashton Family Fou…Beesley Family Founda…Larry H Miller and Ga…The Community Foundat…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, 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 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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