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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
12
States reached
$1.1M
Largest

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

12
17
21
18
18
19
20
20
38
21
34
22
24
23
28
24
25
25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$49MArts & Culture$6.7MPhilanthropy$3.8MHealth$2.7MCivil Rights$604kInternational$348kReligion$177kFood & Nutrition$177kOther$0
02FY2022 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k41 grants · $123k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $127k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
  • $250k+6 grants · $5.4M
$5,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$72M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NYU LANGONE HEALTH$1,100,860
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$1,002,881
YALE UNIVERSITY$1,000,000
NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER$1,000,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV UNIV$1,000,000
NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$265,000
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC$100,000
WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE$50,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROW$50,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS ISRAEL PHILHARMONI$30,000
LITTLE KIDS ROCK$25,000
ALLIANCE FOR DECISION EDUCATION$25,000
AMEINU$20,000
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$16,958
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$10,000
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 (FY17–25, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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 SERVICES: $2k → 12%SEASONS HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $100 → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 12%Jespy House: $5k → 16%JESPY HOUSE: $5k → 16%JESPY HOUSE: $5k → 16%JESPY HOUSE: $4k → 16%JESPY HOUSE: $1k → 16%NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL JUS: $1k → 16%JEWISH COMMUNITY HOUSING CORP: $25k → 16%JEWISH COMMUNITY HOUSING CORP: $4k → 16%JEWISH COMMUNITY HOUSING CORP: $4k → 16%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
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MD
AR
TN
DC
AL
TX
FL

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.

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$27M · 66 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

66 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2022, 23 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

66
36

Total granted

$27M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+36%

Still filing today

59%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthEducationInternationalHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther

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

  • NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $3.5M · revenue +21%
  • NJ
    NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.6M · revenue ×23 · 29% of their budget
  • BS
    BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $443k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • NY
    New York Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1.1M · revenue +30%
  • AE
    AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FUND - DAF
    one grant, 2020 · $500k
  • AR
    AMERICAN RED CROSS
    one grant, 2021 · $100k

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
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
2
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
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
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
5
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
6
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

7
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
9
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
10
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
11
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Greater Metrowest Nj and the most unlike its peers is The Wallace Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community Organizati…Environmental Conservation …Affordable Housing Developm…Health Access Advocacy and …Community College Foundatio…Christian Missionary Organi…Addiction Recovery ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterYouth Sports ProgramsCancer Support ServicesIndependent K-12 SchoolsPolicy Research and AdvocacyFood Banks and PantriesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%4%<5yr13%4%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr17%18%20–35yr15%26%35–55yr17%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr19%1%10–20yr17%0%20–35yr15%10%35–55yr17%89%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% 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 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/83
the rest of the field
9%
7,129/78,079

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.

04the grantee network

79 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 79 of the 143 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
79/79
Grantees still filing
56/79
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $35,264,486 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA+7 more — $1,126,600 · EducationYALE UNIVERSITY — $6,595,325 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - DAF — $2,898,261 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION -…NYU LANGONE HEALTH — $2,575,948 · OtherNYU LANGONE HEALTHNYU — $1,819,101 · OtherNYUNJPAC — $563,245 · Other+90 more — $2,397,971 · Other+90 moreNEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION — $3,450,789 · Arts & CultureNEW JERSEY …NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $1,624,293 · Arts & CultureNEW JERSEY …BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $443,147 · Arts & CultureBOSTON SYMP…THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC — $432,489 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILHAR…+15 more — $356,590 · Arts & Culture+15 moreAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ — $4,379,966 · International+6 more — $57,730 · InternationalCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY — $200,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $101,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ — $101,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICA GIVES INC — $55,000 · Philanthropy+4 more — $17,892 · PhilanthropyFeeding America — $90,000 · Food & NutritionINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC — $30,600 · Food & NutritionCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc — $29,493 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $2,000 · Food & NutritionNewark Community Street Team Inc — $100,000 · Crime & LegalVOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOR JUSTICE IN — $6,186 · Crime & Legal
Education$36,391,086Other$16,849,851Arts & Culture$6,307,308International$4,437,696Philanthropy$474,892Food & Nutrition$152,093Crime & Legal$106,186

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 budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $35,264,486 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ — $4,379,966 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetNEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION — $3,450,789 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetNEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $1,624,293 over 6y, 29% of budgetNew York University — $1,100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $443,147 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC — $432,489 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY — $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $160,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $101,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ — $101,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNewark Community Street Team Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFeeding America — $90,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR DECISION EDUCATIONINC — $65,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICA GIVES INC — $55,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWNET — $53,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC WILL INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $37,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Community Housing Corporation of Metropolitan New Jersey — $32,440 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $30,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC — $30,600 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc — $29,493 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMEINU OUR PEOPLE INC — $25,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY — $23,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJESPY HOUSE INC — $19,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC — $18,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC — $13,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGolda Och Academy — $12,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWALLACE RHEUMATIC DISEASE FOUNDATION — $11,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetLIBERTY SCIENCE CENTER — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Wallace Foundation — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOR JUSTICE IN — $6,186 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STOCKBRIDGE BOWL ASSOCIATION — $5,372 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLISA B FISHMAN FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MORRIS MUSEUM INC — $3,180 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSHELTER MUSIC BOSTON INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE NATIONAL THEATRE FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMRCC FOUNDATION INC — $2,400 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC — $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.

  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
  • Who funds American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ
  • Who funds NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION
  • Who funds NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
  • Who funds New York University
  • Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
  • Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ
  • Who funds Newark Community Street Team Inc
  • Who funds Feeding America
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR DECISION EDUCATIONINC
  • Who funds AMERICA GIVES INC
  • Who funds WNET
  • Who funds MUSIC WILL INC
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
  • Who funds Jewish Community Housing Corporation of Metropolitan New Jersey
  • Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO
  • Who funds INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC
  • Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc
  • Who funds AMEINU OUR PEOPLE INC

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.

The Hyde and Watson FoundationNJ18.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Colton 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 60%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 5%
  • Hias Inc88% of income from government
  • 18 Degrees Inc60% of income from government
  • Newark Community Street Team Inc38% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc30% of income from government
  • New Jersey Symphony Orchestra21% of income from government
  • Liberty Science Center14% of income from government
  • Volunteer Lawyers for Justice in9% of income from government
  • Brandeis University9% of income from government
  • Paper Mill Playhouse9% of income from government
  • The Morris Museum Inc7% of income from government
  • Greenagers Inc7% of income from government
  • Glassroots Inc5% of income from government
  • Wam Theatre Inc4% of income from government
  • Shelter Music Boston Inc4% of income from government
  • Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc3% of income from government
  • Jespy House Inc2% of income from government
  • Branch Brook Park Alliance Inc2% of income from government
  • Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Inc2% of income from government
  • Simmons University1% of income from government
  • Golda Och Academy0% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc0% of income from government
  • Jewish Community Housing Corporation of Metropolitan New Jersey0% of income from government
  • New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation0% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 143 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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