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Howard P Colhoun Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.8M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
74
Grants FY2024
58
Organizations funded FY2023
10%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$553,000
Organizations funded a year
55 to 85
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
18
Total assets, FY2024
$106M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 10% of the organizations Howard P Colhoun Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $342k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionOther
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
FY2024still arriving67$3.5M22%
FY202358$3.4M10%
FY202267$3.3M18%
FY202155$2.5M20%
FY202058$2.5M21%
FY201984$2.7M23%
FY201884$2.5M29%
FY201785$2.0Mn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$9.3MEducation$2.6MCommunity Improvement$2.6MEnvironment$2.3MFood & Nutrition$1.7MHealth$1.3MYouth Development$902kInternational$671kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
WA
IL
NY
MA
WY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
TN
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 94 grantees
All grantees of Howard P Colhoun Family Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
National Outdoor Leadership School$2,007,50081%
New Profit Inc$1,561,00081%
Social Venture Partners Boulder County Inc$485,000825%
Camp Pasquaney$459,00089%
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research$290,00030%
Greater Baltimore Medical Center Inc$285,00080%
Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc$271,56130%
Neighborhood Trust Financial Partners Inc$220,00051%
Maine Farmland Trust$210,00051%
Braven Inc$200,00020%
Good Shepherd Food Bank$195,00030%
Friends School of Portland$192,0003n/a
Direct Relief$185,00010%
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation$185,00010%
Planned Parenthood of Maryland Inc$170,00080%
World Central Kitchen Inc$150,00010%
National Women's Law Center$146,00030%
National Geographic Society$146,00070%
Friends School Inc$140,00061%
Roots and Wings Inc$130,00053%
Shelburne Farms$130,00021%
Family Planning Association of Maine Inc$125,00041%
Room to Grow National Inc$120,00041%
Plan International USA Inc$120,00040%
Greenlight Fund Inc$110,00040%
Plummer Youth Promise Inc$97,00070%
Invest In Girls Inc$85,00047%
Social Venture Partners International$81,50087%
Learning Ally Inc$75,00020%
The Hill School$75,00030%
St Thomas Church$73,0007n/a
Next Gen Personal Finance$71,00010%
The Trustees of Princeton University$62,00080%
President and Fellows of Middlebury College$60,00050%
Shore Country Day School$60,00010%
World Learning Inc$55,00030%
St Pauls Episcopal Church of Delray Beach$51,0008n/a
Hias Inc$50,00010%
The Morgan State University Foundation Inc$50,00010%
The Brigid Alliance Inc$50,00011%
RefuSHE Inc$50,00012%
Beverly Bootstraps Community Services I$50,00041%
Delray Beach Historical Society$41,00084%
Teens to Trails$40,00038%
Community Food Share Inc$39,50080%
Rocky Mountain Institute$37,50080%
Trustees of Phillips Academy$35,00010%
African Wildlife Foundation Inc$35,00080%
Healthy Acadia$35,00060%
Frenchman Bay Conservancy$32,00021%
Kieve Wavus Education Inc$31,00040%
Uaspire Inc$30,00030%
Land Preservation Trust Inc$30,00040%
The Food Project Inc$27,00030%
National Aquarium Inc$25,00030%
The Cancer Couch Foundation Inc$25,00014%
Stamford House Historic Preservation Foundation Inc$25,00039%
Appalachian Mountain Club$25,00010%
Mpt Foundation Inc$25,00020%
National Charitable Fund$25,0002n/a
Glyndon Voluntteer Fire Dept Inc$22,00062%
Gilchrist Hospice Care Inc$20,00010%
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation$20,00030%
Harborlight Community Partners Inc$20,00020%
Sorrento Public Library$15,0003n/a
Chewonki Foundation Inc$15,00010%
Church of the Redeemer$15,0003n/a
Acord Inc$13,00041%
Maryland Historical Society Inc$10,00020%
Association of C5 Youth Programs Inc$10,00011%
Maine Media College$10,00010%
The Adirondack Council Inc$10,00020%
The Quebec-Labrador Foundation Inc$10,00011%
Trustees of Tufts College$10,00010%
Maine Huts & Trails$10,00012%
Design Challenge Network Inc$10,0001n/a
Women Donors Network$9,00020%
Wellspring House Inc$9,00030%
Irvine Natural Science Center Inc$8,00020%
Maine Seacoast Mission$7,50030%
Bridge House$5,00010%
Friends of Great Smoky Mountains National Park$5,00010%
High Country News$5,00010%
The President and Trustees of Colby College$5,00010%
Kickstart International Inc$5,00010%
Church of the Redeemer$5,0001n/a
Trout Unlimited Inc$4,00020%
The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union$3,00010%
El Education Inc$2,50010%
Hathaway Brown School$2,00020%
Gulf Stream School Inc$2,00020%
Wenham Historical Association & Museum Inc$2,00020%
Loaves and Fishes Food Pantry$1,00011%
Community Greening Corp$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 90 recipients with no EIN on record ($12M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Howard P Colhoun Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 86 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNational Outdoor Leadership School: $2,007,500 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetNew Profit Inc: $1,561,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetSocial Venture Partners Boulder County Inc: $485,000 over 8y, 25% of budgetCamp Pasquaney: $459,000 over 8y, 8.6% of budgetWhitehead Institute for Biomedical Research: $290,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Baltimore Medical Center Inc: $285,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetEverytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc: $271,561 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNeighborhood Trust Financial Partners Inc: $220,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetMaine Farmland Trust: $210,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetBraven Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $195,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDirect Relief: $185,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPartners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: $185,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Maryland Inc: $170,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Women's Law Center: $146,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNational Geographic Society: $146,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFriends School Inc: $140,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetRoots and Wings Inc: $130,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetShelburne Farms: $130,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFamily Planning Association of Maine Inc: $125,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetRoom to Grow National Inc: $120,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetPlan International USA Inc: $120,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGreenlight Fund Inc: $110,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPlummer Youth Promise Inc: $97,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetInvest In Girls Inc: $85,000 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetSocial Venture Partners International: $81,500 over 8y, 7.0% of budgetLearning Ally Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Hill School: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNext Gen Personal Finance: $71,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $62,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $60,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetShore Country Day School: $60,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWorld Learning Inc: $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHias Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Morgan State University Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Brigid Alliance Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRefuSHE Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBeverly Bootstraps Community Services I: $50,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetDelray Beach Historical Society: $41,000 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetTeens to Trails: $40,000 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetCommunity Food Share Inc: $39,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRocky Mountain Institute: $37,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Phillips Academy: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAfrican Wildlife Foundation Inc: $35,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHealthy Acadia: $35,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFrenchman Bay Conservancy: $32,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetKieve Wavus Education Inc: $31,000 over 4y, 0.1% 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 86.

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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.

Maine Community Foundation IncME28.2× affinity14 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover 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.

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About Howard P Colhoun Family Foundation Inc

How much does Howard P Colhoun Family Foundation Inc give?
Howard P Colhoun Family Foundation Inc reported 74 grants totaling $3,800,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 55 and 85 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Howard P Colhoun Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (39%), Education (11%), Community Improvement (11%).
Who are Howard P Colhoun Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: National Outdoor Leadership School ($2.0M), New Profit Inc ($1.6M), Social Venture Partners Boulder County Inc ($485k).
Does Howard P Colhoun Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Howard P Colhoun Family Foundation Inc 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 Howard P Colhoun Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Boston Foundation Inc, Elmina B Sewall Foundation.
Where is Howard P Colhoun Family Foundation Inc based?
Howard P Colhoun Family Foundation Inc is based in MD.

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 193 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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