Delaware · Private foundation
Colman Family 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.
- $481k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2024
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 37
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 15% of the organizations Colman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 25 | $381k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $332k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $326k | 12% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $352k | 9% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $3.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc | $945,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Divinity School Association Univ of Chicago | $892,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Special Operations Fund | $350,000 | 4 | 15% |
| North Shore Congregation Israel | $274,305 | 5 | n/a |
| Hias Inc | $245,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jewish Child and Family Services | $244,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Thresholds | $179,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Philadelphia Theatre Company | $150,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Lyric Opera of Chicago | $105,000 | 5 | 0% |
| American Friends of Hebrew University Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($142k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Colman Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Colman Family Foundation
- How much does Colman Family Foundation give?
- Colman Family Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $480,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 37 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Colman Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (29%), Education (25%), International (20%).
- Who are Colman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ($945k), Divinity School Association Univ of Chicago ($892k), Special Operations Fund ($350k).
- Does Colman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Colman Family 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 Colman Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is Colman Family Foundation based?
- Colman Family Foundation is based in DE.
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