California · Private foundation
Delbert W Coleman 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.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 6
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $27M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Delbert W Coleman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $252k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $1.0M | 64% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $517k | 67% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $70k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $100k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $35k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trustees of Deerfield Academy | $550,000 | 3 | 0% |
| San Francisco Food Bank | $210,000 | 3 | 0% |
| San Francisco Film Society | $150,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $110,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Tipping Point Community | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The American School of Paris Foundation | $82,000 | 2 | 68% |
| Eisenhower Medical Center | $60,000 | 1 | 0% |
| San Francisco Education Fund | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| California Academy of Sciences | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Breakthrough Collaborative | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 12 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trustees of Deerfield Academy | $550,000 | 3 | 0% |
| San Francisco Food Bank | $210,000 | 3 | 0% |
| San Francisco Film Society | $150,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $110,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Tipping Point Community | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The American School of Paris Foundation | $82,000 | 2 | 68% |
| Eisenhower Medical Center | $60,000 | 1 | 0% |
| San Francisco Education Fund | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| California Academy of Sciences | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Breakthrough Collaborative | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
| American Promise Education Fund Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Peer Health Exchange Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($295k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Delbert W Coleman Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Delbert W Coleman Foundation
- How much does Delbert W Coleman Foundation give?
- Delbert W Coleman Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $1,270,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Delbert W Coleman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (37%), Health (32%), Food & Nutrition (8%).
- Who are Delbert W Coleman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Trustees of Deerfield Academy ($550k), San Francisco Food Bank ($210k), San Francisco Film Society ($150k).
- Does Delbert W Coleman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Delbert W Coleman 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 Delbert W Coleman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Delbert W Coleman Foundation based?
- Delbert W Coleman Foundation is based in CA.
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