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Colors Foundation a Not for Profit Company Ltd

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$15k
Granted FY2020
1
Grants FY2020
1
Organizations funded FY2020
100%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$15,250
Largest grant, FY2020
$15,250
Organizations funded a year
1 to 7
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 100% of the organizations Colors Foundation a Not for Profit Company Ltd funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
Arts & CultureEducationOther
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
FY20201$15k100%
FY20194$9k0%
FY20187$15k43%
FY20176$24kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Human Services$39kArts & Culture$22kEducation$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cornelia Connely Center for Education$15,5002n/a
Girl Be Heard Institute$12,00030%
Primary Stages Company Inc$8,15030%
The Committee for Hispanic Children and Families Inc$6,99530%
New York Women's Foundation Inc$1,75010%
The Harmony Program Inc$1,50010%
St Francis College$50010%

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($17k), not named here.

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.

Pinkerton FoundationNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pinkerton Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Colors Foundation a Not for Profit Company Ltd

How much does Colors Foundation a Not for Profit Company Ltd give?
Colors Foundation a Not for Profit Company Ltd reported 1 grants totaling $15,250 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Colors Foundation a Not for Profit Company Ltd fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Human Services (63%), Arts & Culture (34%), Education (3%).
Who are Colors Foundation a Not for Profit Company Ltd's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Cornelia Connely Center for Education ($16k), Girl Be Heard Institute ($12k), Primary Stages Company Inc ($8k).
Does Colors Foundation a Not for Profit Company Ltd fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Colors Foundation a Not for Profit Company Ltd 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 Colors Foundation a Not for Profit Company Ltd?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Pinkerton Foundation, The Hyde and Watson Foundation, The Blackbaud Giving Fund.
Where is Colors Foundation a Not for Profit Company Ltd based?
Colors Foundation a Not for Profit Company Ltd is based in NY.

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 10 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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