New Jersey · Private foundation
Colton Family 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.
- $5.8M
- Granted FY2022
- 56
- Grants FY2022
- 54
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2022
Read this first · the figures below need context
81% of Colton Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 25 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Colton Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 34 organizations, $6M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2022
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2022
- $1,100,860
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 54
- FY2017 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2022
- 12
- Total assets, FY2022
- $72M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 30% of the organizations Colton Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $117k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2022 | 54 | $4.8M | 30% |
| FY2021 | 51 | $2.9M | 43% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $3.9M | 41% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $3.4M | 44% |
| FY2018 | 35 | $3.4M | 60% |
| FY2017 | 20 | $395k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ | $4,379,966 | 6 | 2% |
| New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation | $3,450,789 | 5 | 2% |
| New Jersey Symphony Orchestra | $1,624,293 | 6 | 29% |
| New York University | $1,100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc | $443,147 | 7 | 0% |
| The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc | $432,489 | 7 | 0% |
| Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc | $160,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Newark Community Street Team Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Feeding America | $90,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Alliance for Decision Educationinc | $65,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 75 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 60 recipients with no EIN on record ($17M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Colton Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 66 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Prudential Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Pseg Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Lvh Foundation · The Leon and Toby Cooperman Family Foundation · The Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey Inc · Victoria Foundation Inc · The McJ Amelior Foundation
How this is measured
About Colton Family Foundation
- How much does Colton Family Foundation give?
- Colton Family Foundation reported 56 grants totaling $5,819,188 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 54 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
- What does Colton Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (76%), Arts & Culture (10%), Philanthropy (6%).
- Who are Colton Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ ($4.4M), New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation ($3.5M), New Jersey Symphony Orchestra ($1.6M).
- Does Colton Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Colton 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 Colton Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Hyde and Watson Foundation, Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc, Community Foundation of New Jersey.
- Where is Colton Family Foundation based?
- Colton Family Foundation is based in NJ.
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