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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 FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$1.8MEducation$1.5MInternational$1.2MArts & Culture$489kHealth$376kHuman Services$343kReligion$317kFood & Nutrition$53kOther$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k23 grants · $86k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $300k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA$100,000
AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE INC$100,000
AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE INC$50,000
PHILADELPHIA THEATRE COMPANY$50,000
AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE INC$30,000
THE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION$25,000
THE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION$10,000
THE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION$10,000
JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICE OF GREATER PHI$10,000
JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICE OF GREATER PHI$10,000
NETWORK OF JEWISH HUMAN SERVICE AGENCIES INC$5,000
PHILABUNDANCE$5,000
NORTH SHORE CONGREGATION ISRAEL$5,000
THE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ILLINOIS$5,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $356k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICE OF GREATER PHI: $10k → 7%DEFINE AMERICAN: $12k → 14%NETWORK OF JEWISH HUMAN SERVICE AGENCIES INC: $5k → 7%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICE OF GREATER PHI: $10k → 7%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICE OF GREATER PHI: $10k → 7%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICE OF GREATER PHI: $10k → 7%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICE OF GREATER PHI: $10k → 7%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICE OF GREATER PHI: $5k → 7%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICE OF GREATER PHI: $5k → 7%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICE OF GREATER PHI: $5k → 7%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICE OF GREATER PHI: $10k → 22%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICE OF GREATER PHI: $5k → 22%GERSHMAN Y: $3k → 22%GERSHMAN Y: $3k → 22%PHILADELPHIA JEWISH FILM AND MEDIA: $3k → 22%PHILADELPHIA JEWISH FILM AND MEDIA: $3k → 22%JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $244k → 14%PHILADELPHIA JEWISH FILM AND MEDIA: $3k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
NY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
DC

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 15% of Colman Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Colman Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.5% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.4M · 28 repeat orgs$933k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
18

Total granted

$3.4M
$926k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+13%

Still filing today

86%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalHealthPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $945k · revenue +4%
  • SO
    Special Operations Fund
    4× · 2020–2023 · $350k · revenue +23%
  • TT
    THE THRESHOLDS
    5× · 2020–2024 · $179k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • HI
    HIAS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $245k · revenue +85%
  • JC
    Jewish Child and Family Services
    one grant, 2020 · $244k · revenue +9%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -30%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
2
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
3
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
5
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
6
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
7
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
8
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
9
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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10
Loyola University of Chicago

We are chicago's jesuit, catholic university - a diverse community seeking god in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith.

Education
11
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
12
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Philadelphia Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Divinity School Association Univ of Chicago. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 69 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr18%2%10–20yr15%13%20–35yr14%24%35–55yr22%61%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr18%0%10–20yr15%8%20–35yr14%6%35–55yr22%86%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/47
the rest of the field
12%
8,891/72,312

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 52 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/44
Grantees still filing
34/44
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN…JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $430,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHIL…The Chicago Community Trust — $250,000 · PhilanthropyThe Chicago Community TrustJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $80,000 · Philanthropy+3 more — $18,500 · PhilanthropyDIVINITY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION UNIV OF CHICAGO — $892,000 · EducationDIVINITY SCHOOL ASSOCIATIO…Special Operations Fund — $350,000 · EducationSpecial Operations FundUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $100,000 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND …THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY — $50,000 · Education+5 more — $25,000 · EducationThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $945,000 · InternationalThe American Jewish Join…HIAS INC — $245,000 · InternationalHIAS INCAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $100,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBR…NORTH SHORE CONGREGATION ISRAEL — $274,305 · OtherNORTH SHORE …THE THRESHOLDS — $179,000 · OtherTHE THRESHOL…WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY The Wesleyan Fund (obsolete) — $70,000 · OtherWESLEYAN UNI…WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY The Wesleyan Fund — $30,000 · OtherTHE ARK — $25,000 · OtherGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $25,000 · Other+9 more — $82,000 · Other+9 moreJewish Child and Family Services — $244,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $80,000 · Human ServicesPHILADELPHIA JEWISH FILM AND MEDIA — $12,500 · Human ServicesDEFINE AMERICAN INC — $12,000 · Human Services+2 more — $7,000 · Human ServicesPHILADELPHIA THEATRE COMPANY — $150,000 · Arts & CultureLyric Opera of Chicago — $105,000 · Arts & CultureChicago Symphony Orchestra — $25,000 · Arts & CultureMERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC — $25,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART — $12,500 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $34,500 · Arts & CultureTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $90,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $75,000 · HealthPlanned Parenthood of Illinois — $25,000 · Health
Philanthropy$1,778,500Education$1,417,000International$1,290,000Other$685,305Human Services$355,500Arts & Culture$352,000Health$190,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $945,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDIVINITY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION UNIV OF CHICAGO — $892,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $430,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSpecial Operations Fund — $350,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetThe Chicago Community Trust — $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC — $245,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJewish Child and Family Services — $244,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE THRESHOLDS — $179,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA THEATRE COMPANY — $150,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetLyric Opera of Chicago — $105,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $90,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $80,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEWBERRY LIBRARY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Illinois — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetPhilabundance — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART — $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA JEWISH FILM AND MEDIA — $12,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDEFINE AMERICAN INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER — $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC — $9,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY — $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO — $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAPPEL FARM ARTS AND MUSIC CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNETWORK OF JEWISH HUMAN SERVICE AGENCIES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PHILADELPHIA SCHOOL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LENFEST INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM SPECIAL ASSET FUND OF TPF — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLORADO COLLEGE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Family Services — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jewish Federation of …Gs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Charities Aid Foundat…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Colman Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 52 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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