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Delbert W Coleman Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Education$917kHealth$797kFood & Nutrition$210kArts & Culture$150kEnvironment$110kInternational$100kScience & Tech$50kSocial Science$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $960k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$50,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
STANFORD UNIVERSITY (HUMANITIES AND SCIENCES)$50,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY (UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION COLLEGE PROGRAM)$50,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY (HOOVER HOUSE)$50,000
AMERICAN SCHOOL OF PARIS FOUNDATION$50,000
CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES$50,000
AMERICAN PROMISE EDUCATION FUND$25,000
EDGEWOOD CENTER$15,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION$10,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%AMERICAN PROMISE EDUCATION FUND: $25k → 8%DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $250k → 14%MAYO CLINIC: $250k → 9%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $30k → 8%PEER HEALTH EXCHANGE: $25k → 10%CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $50k → 10%EISENHOWER HEALTH FOUNDATION: $60k → 11%ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND: $110k → 17%DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $240k → 14%MAYO CLINIC: $250k → 9%BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE: $15k → 10%TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $100k → 10%DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $60k → 14%MAYO CLINIC: $152k → 9%BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE: $10k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO FILM SOCIETY: $150k → 10%MAYO CLINIC: $60k → 9%SAN FRANCISCO MARIN FOOD BANK: $150k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $35k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $25k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO EDUCATION FUND: $50k → 10%HEBREW FREE LOANS: $50k → 10%EDGEWOOD CENTER: $15k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION: $10k → 10%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.
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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 6 repeat orgs$695k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +102% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

$1.0M
$225k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+102%
0%

Still filing today

67%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $470k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’23’24’25
EducationInternationalEnvironmentPhilanthropyHealthArts & CultureOther
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

  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $550k · revenue +102%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK
    3× · 2020–2025 · $210k · revenue +10%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF PARIS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $82k · revenue +172% · 68% of their budget

Funded once

  • SF
    San Francisco Film Society
    one grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue 0%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • PEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -67%
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
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
2
The International School of San Francisco

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…

Education
3
San Francisco Friends School

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…

Education
4
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
5
The San Francisco School

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.

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6
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
7
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

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…

Education
8
Association of California School Administrators

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.

—
9
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

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…

Education
10
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
12
Marin Academy

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma; 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.
04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 21 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
6/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAYO CLINIC: $712,105 · HealthMAYO CLINICEisenhower Medical Center: $60,000 · HealthEisenhower Medical CenterSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $210,000 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANKSan Francisco Film Society: $150,000 · OtherSan Francisco Film SocietySTANFORD UNIVERSITY (UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION COLLEGE PROGRAM): $85,000 · OtherSTANFORD UNIVERSITY (UNDERGRADU…STANFORD UNIVERSITY (HUMANITIES AND SCIENCES): $85,000 · OtherSTANFORD UNIVERSITY (HUMANITIES…STANFORD UNIVERSITY (HOOVER HOUSE): $50,000 · OtherSTANFORD UNIVERSITY (HOOVER HOU…Individual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAMERICAN PROMISE EDUCATION FUND INC: $25,000 · Other+2 more: $25,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $550,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMYSan Francisco Education Fund: $50,000 · EducationSan Francisco Education FundTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · EducationTHE BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE: $25,000 · EducationENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $110,000 · EnvironmentTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $100,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF PARIS FOUNDATION: $82,000 · InternationalCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $50,000 · Arts & CulturePEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC: $25,000 · Youth Development
Health$772,105Other$680,000Education$655,000Environment$110,000Philanthropy$110,000International$82,000Arts & Culture$50,000Youth Development$25,000

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 budgetMAYO CLINIC: $712,105 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $550,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $210,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSan Francisco Film Society: $150,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $110,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF PARIS FOUNDATION: $82,000 over 2y, 68% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Education Fund: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $10,000 over 1y, 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.

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.

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Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO7.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Delbert W Coleman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Delbert W Coleman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 21 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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