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Coles Family Foundation co Peter Coles

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.

$62k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2024
16
Organizations funded FY2023
6%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$21,000
Organizations funded a year
13 to 20
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$849k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 6% of the organizations Coles Family Foundation co Peter Coles funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Community ImprovementArts & CultureEnvironmentPublic Safety & DisasterHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving17$62k12%
FY202316$68k6%
FY202220$67k30%
FY202117$53k41%
FY202013$46kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$112kEnvironment$74kArts & Culture$45kYouth Development$17kCommunity Improvement$12kAnimals$12kHealth$12kHuman Services$9kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 19 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($49k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Coles Family Foundation co Peter Coles supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLake Park Friends Ltd: $101,000 over 5y, 7.7% of budgetNorthwoods Land Trust Inc: $26,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetNorth Point Lighthouse Friends Inc: $13,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetBicycle Federation of Wisconsin Educational Foundation Inc: $12,100 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Wisconsin Inc: $11,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHistoric Milwaukee Inc: $11,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCamp Manito-Wish YMCA Inc: $11,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWisconsin Trust for Historic Preservation Inc: $11,500 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetThe Wisconsin Society for Ornithology Inc: $10,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetKids Forward Inc: $9,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTrue Skool Inc: $9,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetRiveredge Nature Center Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSt Mary's County Arts Council Inc: $3,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGreat Headwaters Trails Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSouthern Maryland RC&D Board Inc: $1,800 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMilwaukee Preservation Alliance: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHollywood Volunteer Fire Dept Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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.

Herbert H Kohl Charities IncWI17.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Barbara Meyer Elsner Foundation · Dudley and Constance Godfrey Foundation Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

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About Coles Family Foundation co Peter Coles

How much does Coles Family Foundation co Peter Coles give?
Coles Family Foundation co Peter Coles reported 17 grants totaling $61,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 20 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Coles Family Foundation co Peter Coles fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (37%), Environment (24%), Arts & Culture (15%).
Who are Coles Family Foundation co Peter Coles's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Lake Park Friends Ltd ($101k), Northwoods Land Trust Inc ($26k), North Point Lighthouse Friends Inc ($13k).
Does Coles Family Foundation co Peter Coles fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Coles Family Foundation co Peter Coles accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Coles Family Foundation co Peter Coles?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc, Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Barbara Meyer Elsner Foundation.
Where is Coles Family Foundation co Peter Coles based?
Coles Family Foundation co Peter Coles is based in MD.

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 31 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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