· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $960k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAYO CLINIC | $250,000 |
| DEERFIELD ACADEMY | $240,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO MARIN FOOD BANK | $150,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $110,000 |
| TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY | $100,000 |
| EISENHOWER HEALTH FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO EDUCATION FUND | $50,000 |
| CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES | $50,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY (HOOVER HOUSE) | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN SCHOOL OF PARIS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY (HUMANITIES AND SCIENCES) | $50,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY (UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION COLLEGE PROGRAM) | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN PROMISE EDUCATION FUND | $25,000 |
| EDGEWOOD CENTER | $15,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY (DAY OF GIVING) | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +102% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $470k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TOTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY3× · 2023–2025 · $550k · revenue +102%
- SFSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK3× · 2020–2025 · $210k · revenue +10%
- TATHE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF PARIS FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $82k · revenue +172% · 68% of their budget
Funded once
- SFSan Francisco Film Societyone grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue 0%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $50k
PEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INCone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -67%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…
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.
A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Marin academy asks every individual to think, question, and create in an environment of encouragement and compassion, and challenges each person to accept the responsibilities posed by education in a democratic society.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma and the most unlike its peers is San Francisco Food Bank. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 21 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Film Society ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF PARIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Education Fund ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PROMISE EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Delbert W Coleman 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.
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.