· Private foundation
George E Coleman Jr Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
84% of George E Coleman Jr Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Donors Trust Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 19 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year George E Coleman Jr Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $675k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k32 grants · $90k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $565k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DONORS TRUST | $150,000 |
| DONORS TRUST | $145,000 |
| DONORS TRUST | $140,000 |
| DONORS TRUST | $130,000 |
| DONORS TRUST | $20,000 |
| THE CHURCH OF THE RESURRECTION | $5,000 |
| DONORS TRUST | $5,000 |
| THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN PRINCIPLES PROJECT | $5,000 |
| DOMINICAN HOUSE OF STUDIES | $5,000 |
| ST STEPHEN'S CHURCH | $4,500 |
| THE NORWALK SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC | $4,000 |
| INSTITUTE ON RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE | $4,000 |
| ST MARY'S CHURCH GREENWICH | $4,000 |
| CENTER FOR AMERICAN GREATNESS INC | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–21, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.
59 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2022, 32 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PIPRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM6× · 2018–2024 · $53k · revenue +46%
- AEAtlas Economic Research Foundation2× · 2017–2018 · $44k · revenue +185%
- TFTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES5× · 2018–2024 · $25k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- FCFIDELITY CHARITABLEone grant, 2017 · $26k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $20k
- COCOMMITTEE ON MONETARY REFORM & EDUCATIONone grant, 2018 · $14k
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.
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.
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How this is measured
33 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. 33 of the 141 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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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.
Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Kickapoo Springs Foundation · Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Inc · The Legett Foundation · Smith Richardson Foundation Inc · Triad Foundation Inc · The Henkes Foundation · Eric Javits Family Foundation · The Armstrong Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization George E Coleman Jr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George E Coleman Jr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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