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Coral 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.

$13k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$11kHealth$11kPhilanthropy$8kRecreation & Sports$7kCrime & Legal$5kYouth Development$2kReligion$2kPublic Benefit$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$468k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ILLINOIS STATE RIFLE ASSOCIATION LEGAL ASSISTANCE COMMITTEE$5,000
NORTHERN HILLS SHOOTING SPORTS$3,000
STARLIGHTS SKATING CLUB$1,500
AMERICAN RED CROSS - DISASTER RELIEF$1,000
WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION$1,000
ARCHDIOCESE FOR MILITATY SERVICES$1,000
SCOUTING AMERICA THREE HARBORS COUNCIL$500
ST PAT'S CHURCH WADSWORTH IL$250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOSPICE ALLIANCE: $500 → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS - DISASTER RELIEF: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
WY
SD
CA
TN
NC
SC
DC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

30%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15k · 5 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
12

Total granted

$15k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+28%

Still filing today

60%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
Human ServicesRecreation & SportsHealthPublic BenefitCivil RightsEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • DM
    DENISE MARIE FLAHERTY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $10k · revenue +6%
  • SS
    Starlights Skating Club
    2× · 2023–2024 · $3k · revenue -1%
  • TH
    THREE HARBORS COUNCIL
    2× · 2020–2021 · $1k

Funded once

  • HU
    HOLSTON UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • DM
    DMF MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • RM
    ROSS MACNEIL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
2
SwedishAmerican Hospital

Through excellence in healthcare and compassionate service, we care for our community.

Health
3
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago

SRAlab is dedicated to providing the best patient outcomes through the highest-quality clinical care, translational research, scientific discovery and education.

Health
4
Endeavor Health Clinical Operations

Endeavor Health Clinical Operations follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."

Health
5
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
6
Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation
Human Services
7
Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group

Northwestern memorial healthcare is an integrated healthcare system, consisting of multiple hospitals (including northwestern memorial hospital, an academic medical center) and networks of physicians and healthcare professionals, where the…

Health
8
Honorhealth

Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.

Health
9
St Vincent Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St Franci s

To continue christ's healing love through delivery of competent & compassionate healthcare in an environment sensitive to the needs of all people. the hospital is committed to providing a broad range of quality inpatient and outpatient…

Health
10
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
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
Rhode Island Hospital

As a founding hospital in the Brown University Health system, RIH is committed to its mission: Delivering health with care.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches; the most unlike its peers is Illinois State Rifle Association Legal Assistance Committee Ltd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOLSTON UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN: $10,000 · OtherHOLSTON UNITED METHODIST CHILDRENDMF MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherDMF MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONNORTHERN HILLS SHOOTING SPORTS: $3,000 · OtherNORTHERN HILLS SHOOTING SPORTSROSS MACNEIL FOUNDATION: $2,500 · OtherROSS MACNEIL FOUNDATIONTHREE HARBORS COUNCIL: $1,000 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $1,000 · OtherARCHDIOCESE FOR MILITATY SERVICES: $1,000 · OtherMELVIN MC CALL MEMORIAL GOLF TOURNAMENT - STROKES FOR PROGRESS FOUNDATION: $1,000 · OtherST PETERS CATHOLIC CHURCH: $1,000 · Other+7 more: $2,250 · Other+7 moreDENISE MARIE FLAHERTY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Public BenefitDENISE MARIE FLAHERTY M…ILLINOIS STATE RIFLE ASSOCIATION LEGAL ASSISTANCE COMMITTEE LTD: $5,000 · Civil RightsILLINOIS ST…Starlights Skating Club: $2,500 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH DAKOTA INC: $200 · Recreation & SportsAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE ALLIANCE INC: $500 · Human ServicesWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · EducationAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $500 · Health
Other$27,750Public Benefit$10,000Civil Rights$5,000Recreation & Sports$2,700Human Services$1,500Education$1,000Health$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDENISE MARIE FLAHERTY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetILLINOIS STATE RIFLE ASSOCIATION LEGAL ASSISTANCE COMMITTEE LTD: $5,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetStarlights Skating Club: $2,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE ALLIANCE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH DAKOTA INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 DENISE MARIE FLAHERTY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ILLINOIS STATE RIFLE ASSOCIATION LEGAL ASSISTANCE COMMITTEE LTD ↗
  • Who funds Starlights Skating Club ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH DAKOTA 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Coral Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Coral Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 24 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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