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Colley Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Colley Family Charitable 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.

$51k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$51k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Philanthropy$51kHealth$15kFood & Nutrition$8kHuman Services$4kEnvironment$2kAnimals$2kCommunity Improvement$2kInternational$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$50,989
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLLEY FAMILY DONOR ADVISED FUND$50,989
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FOOD FOR FREE: $1k → 8%AMERICAN FDN FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $2k → 17%NAMI TEXAS: $500 → 10%REFUGEE AND IMMIGRATION CENTER: $2k → 16%TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $2k → 16%OCEANA: $1k → 14%ALASKA SEALIFE CENTER: $1k → 11%NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%FOOD FOR FREE: $1k → 8%AMERICAN FDN FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $2k → 17%TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSP-BIPAI: $1k → 16%ALASKA SEALIFE CENTER: $1k → 11%NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%FOOD FOR FREE: $1k → 8%AMERICAN FDN FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $1k → 17%TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSP-BIPAI: $1k → 16%NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL FOUNDATION: $500 → 7%AMERICAN FDN FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $1k → 17%BAYLOR INTERNATIONAL PEIATRIC AIDS: $500 → 16%NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL FOUNDATION: $500 → 7%BAYLOR INTERNATIONAL PEIATRIC AIDS: $500 → 16%BUFFALO BAYOU PARTNERSHIP: $1k → 16%SEARCH HOMELESS SERVICES: $1k → 16%BUFFALO BAYOU PARTNERSHIP: $500 → 16%HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION: $500 → 16%HOUSTON FOOD BANK: $2k → 16%HOUSTON FOOD BANK: $1k → 16%HOUSTON FOOD BANK: $1k → 16%HOUSTON FOOD BANK: $1k → 16%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $1k → 16%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $1k → 16%PLANNED PARENTHOOD GULF COAST: $1k → 16%PLANNED PARENTHOOD GULF COAST: $500 → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
NY
MA
MO
VA
MD
DC
TX
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.

30%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$26k · 10 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
8

Total granted

$26k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+41%

Still filing today

60%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEnvironmentArts & CultureFood & NutritionInternationalOther
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

  • AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION
    4× · 2019–2023 · $6k · revenue +3%
  • The Houston Food Bank
    4× · 2019–2023 · $5k · revenue +109%
  • FF
    FOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $3k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • RA
    REFUGEE AND IMMIGRATION CENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $2k
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +1%
  • TC
    Texas Children's Hospitalgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +41%
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
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
2
Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program Inc

Coastal bend bays & estuaries program is dedicated to protecting and restoring bays and estuaries of the texas coastal bend. coastal bend bays and estuaries remain a vital part of the environmental and economic landscape by preserving and…

Environment
3
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
4
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
5
Texas Trees Foundation

The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.

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6
Friends of the Earth

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…

Environment
7
Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition
8
2020 Mom Policy Center for Maternal

The policy center is improving maternal mental health outcomes through closing gaps in care delivery, including improving detection and access to evidence-based and informed clinical and community-based care. the policy center has been…

Health
9
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
10
United States Pharmacopeial Convention

Usp's mission is to improve global health through public standards and related programs that help ensure the quality, safety, and benefit of medicines and foods.

Health
11
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
12
Guttmacher Institute Inc

The institute is a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the united states and globally.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Children's Hospital; the most unlike its peers is Planned Parenthood. 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

12 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. 12 of the 19 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLLEY FAMILY DONOR ADVISED FUND: $50,989 · OtherCOLLEY FAMILY DONOR ADVISED FUNDThe Houston Food Bank: $4,500 · OtherThe Houston Food BankNATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Other+5 more: $8,000 · Other+5 moreAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $5,500 · HealthAMERICAN FOUND…PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $2,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENT…Texas Children's Hospital: $1,500 · HealthTexas Children…Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc: $1,500 · HealthPlanned Parent…NAMI Texas Inc: $500 · HealthBuffalo Bayou Partnership Inc: $1,500 · EnvironmentOCEANA INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentFOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC: $3,000 · Food & NutritionMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,500 · InternationalHouston Public Media Foundation: $500 · Arts & Culture
Other$66,489Health$11,000Environment$3,500Food & Nutrition$3,000International$1,500Arts & Culture$500

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 budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBuffalo Bayou Partnership Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOCEANA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Public Media Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI Texas Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Colley Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Colley Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Food for Free Committee Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 19 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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