· 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.
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k41 grants · $123k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $127k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
- $250k+6 grants · $5.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NYU LANGONE HEALTH | $1,100,860 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $1,002,881 |
| NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $1,000,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $1,000,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV UNIV | $1,000,000 |
| NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $265,000 |
| NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC | $100,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROW | $50,000 |
| WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS ISRAEL PHILHARMONI | $30,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR DECISION EDUCATION | $25,000 |
| LITTLE KIDS ROCK | $25,000 |
| AMEINU | $20,000 |
| BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $16,958 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION5× · 2020–2025 · $3.5M · revenue +21%- NJNEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA6× · 2020–2025 · $1.6M · revenue ×23 · 29% of their budget
- BSBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC7× · 2019–2025 · $443k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- NYNew York Universitygraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1.1M · revenue +30%
- AEAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FUND - DAFone grant, 2020 · $500k
- NCNewark Community Street Team Incone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +21%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
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.
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…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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.
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…
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…
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.
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.…
How this is measured
79 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Colton Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Colton Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
- 18 Degrees Inc: 60% of income from government
- Newark Community Street Team Inc: 38% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- New Jersey Symphony Orchestra: 21% of income from government
- Liberty Science Center: 14% of income from government
- Volunteer Lawyers for Justice in: 9% of income from government
- Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
- Paper Mill Playhouse: 9% of income from government
- The Morris Museum Inc: 7% of income from government
- Greenagers Inc: 7% of income from government
- Glassroots Inc: 5% of income from government
- Wam Theatre Inc: 4% of income from government
- Shelter Music Boston Inc: 4% of income from government
- Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc: 3% of income from government
- Jespy House Inc: 2% of income from government
- Branch Brook Park Alliance Inc: 2% of income from government
- Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Inc: 2% of income from government
- Simmons University: 1% of income from government
- Golda Och Academy: 0% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
- Jewish Community Housing Corporation of Metropolitan New Jersey: 0% of income from government
- New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation: 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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