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Frank L & Sarah Miller Coulson 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.

$344k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
31
Grants FY2025
31
Organizations funded FY2024
10%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$8,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$40,000
Organizations funded a year
22 to 31
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
11
Total assets, FY2025
$6.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Frank L & Sarah Miller Coulson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentArts & CultureAnimalsPhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving30$336k7%
FY202431$369k10%
FY202329$1.5M17%
FY202229$376k14%
FY202122$447k0%
FY202029$1.6Mn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$2.4MFood & Nutrition$611kAnimals$235kReligion$147kHealth$124kEnvironment$59kEducation$54kInternational$45kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
NY
MA
PA
CT
CO
VA
MD
TN
DC
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($953k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Frank L & Sarah Miller Coulson Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPhiladelphia Orchestra Association: $1,200,005 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetThe Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union: $849,900 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetThe Pennsylvania Horticultural Society: $572,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budget1love4animals Inc: $195,000 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetPhiladelphia Museum of Art: $141,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWhyy Inc: $78,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFree Library of Philadelphia Foundation: $75,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPhilabundance: $72,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Barnes Foundation: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $47,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $43,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of the American Revolution: $37,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Pennsylvania Ballet Association: $36,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPeople for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Inc: $28,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMann Center for the Performing Arts: $27,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKimmel Center Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $21,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Morris Animal Refuge: $18,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetThe Aloha Foundation Inc: $17,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc: $13,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChama Peak Land Alliance: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHobe Sound Community Chest Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWoodmere Art Museum: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFarestart: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the World Food Program Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 29.

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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.

American Endowment FoundationOH10.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Frank L & Sarah Miller Coulson Foundation

How much does Frank L & Sarah Miller Coulson Foundation give?
Frank L & Sarah Miller Coulson Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $343,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 31 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Frank L & Sarah Miller Coulson Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (56%), Food & Nutrition (14%), Animals (5%).
Who are Frank L & Sarah Miller Coulson Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Philadelphia Orchestra Association ($1.2M), The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union ($850k), The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society ($573k).
Does Frank L & Sarah Miller Coulson Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Frank L & Sarah Miller Coulson 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 Frank L & Sarah Miller Coulson Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Endowment Foundation, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Frank L & Sarah Miller Coulson Foundation based?
Frank L & Sarah Miller Coulson Foundation is based in PA.

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 44 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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