Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Colgan Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $429k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Colgan Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $423k | 56% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $588k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $834k | 46% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $872k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $548k | 52% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $330k | 61% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $324k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $236k | 67% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oneteam Cf | $1,050,450 | 9 | 86% |
| Row New York Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Vesper Boat Club | $68,310 | 8 | 8% |
| Friends of Massey University | $64,275 | 1 | 23% |
| Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club Inc | $24,250 | 3 | 0% |
| Penn Athletic Club Rowing Association | $23,500 | 1 | 4% |
| Lasalle College High School | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Eastern College Athletic Conference | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Stonington Community Rowing Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| The Medici Archive Project Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 22 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oneteam Cf | $1,050,450 | 9 | 86% |
| Row New York Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Vesper Boat Club | $68,310 | 8 | 8% |
| Friends of Massey University | $64,275 | 1 | 23% |
| Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club Inc | $24,250 | 3 | 0% |
| Penn Athletic Club Rowing Association | $23,500 | 1 | 4% |
| Lasalle College High School | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Eastern College Athletic Conference | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Stonington Community Rowing Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| The Medici Archive Project Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Syracuse University | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Lowell Whiteman School | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Smith Memorial Playground & Playhouse Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hopewell Fire Department | $4,750 | 2 | 2% |
| Gulf Stream School Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Share Our Strength | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Nakashima Foundation for Peace | $2,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Life After Meth Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Power Ten New York Inc | $900 | 2 | 1% |
| Jackson Hole One Fly Foundation | $700 | 1 | 0% |
| Pro-Life Union of Greater Philadelphia | $533 | 1 | 0% |
| Harlem Lacrosse and Leadership Corporation | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 79 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Colgan Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Colgan Foundation
- How much does Colgan Foundation give?
- Colgan Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $428,666 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Colgan Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (35%), Education (32%), Employment (14%).
- Who are Colgan Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Oneteam Cf ($1.1M), Row New York Inc ($100k), Vesper Boat Club ($68k).
- Does Colgan Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Colgan Foundation 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 Colgan Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Jewish Communal Fund, The Blackbaud Giving Fund.
- Where is Colgan Foundation based?
- Colgan Foundation is based in PA.
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