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Coherent Ii-Vi Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
51
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$95k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 89% of COHERENT II-VI FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k37 grants · $424k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $950k
$10,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$8.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN$95,000
UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO A$95,000
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY$95,000
UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO B$95,000
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER$95,000
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA CHAMP$95,000
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS$95,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARB$95,000
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$95,000
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$95,000
KYOTO UNIVERSITY$46,800
GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$23,750
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS$13,664
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 66% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $85k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $95k → 10%JESSICA STEINBERG: $10k → 6%JORDAN A SHOPP: $10k → 8%SAMUEL D TACKETT: $10k → 9%GRACE A OMECINSKI: $10k → 10%CAROLINE D KENNEY: $10k → 11%BRANDON J FERRUZZA: $10k → 12%COLIN J GARDNER: $10k → 13%WESTMINSTER COLLEGE: $27k → 13%JUNIATA COLLEGE: $41k → 13%RHETT D SANDERSON: $10k → 14%JOSHUA T YU: $10k → 8%DANILE YANG: $10k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARB: $95k → 14%SAMUEL R LORD: $10k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $95k → 14%LINDELL M WILLIAMS: $10k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $95k → 10%ECKERD COLLEGE: $32k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $95k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $95k → 8%THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $80k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $95k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CH: $85k → 19%MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY: $89k → 24%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $95k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $85k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $95k → 10%UNIV OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA: $95k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $45k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $95k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $48k → 8%THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $79k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $95k → 14%MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY: $73k → 24%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $95k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $95k → 10%UNIV OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA: $95k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $95k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $86k → 8%ALLEGHENY INTERMEDIATE UNIT 3: $14k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $95k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $85k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $17k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $17k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $17k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $17k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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IL
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OH
PA
NJ
CA
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GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.5M · 85 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

85 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 54 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

85
42

Total granted

$6.5M
$996k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+20%

Still filing today

7%
10%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $606k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
    3× · 2021–2023 · $285k · revenue +22%
  • University of Chicago
    3× · 2022–2024 · $285k · revenue +22%
  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    4× · 2020–2023 · $248k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • RF
    RESEARCH FDTN FOR SUNY
    one grant, 2023 · $190k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN
    one grant, 2023 · $95k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CH
    one grant, 2020 · $85k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
5
President and Fellows of Harvard College

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

Education
6
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
7
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

8
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
9
Widener University

Empowering our community of learners to discover and create better futures.

Education
10
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

11
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
12
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Pittsburgh and the most unlike its peers is University of Michigan. 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 146 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
10/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA — $455,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONAKYOTO UNIVERSITY — $395,078 · OtherKYOTO UNIVERSITYMONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY — $394,000 · OtherMONTANA STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO — $285,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE — $285,000 · OtherTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FDTN — $284,600 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — $275,328 · OtherTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY — $254,173 · Other+130 more — $4,588,391 · Other+130 moreUniversity of Chicago — $284,686 · EducationUniversity…UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $247,576 · EducationUNIVERSITY…UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $140,412 · EducationUNIVERSITY…JUNIATA COLLEGE — $41,315 · EducationJUNIATA CO…Eckerd College — $31,500 · EducationWESTMINSTER COLLEGE — $27,000 · EducationGEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION — $80,704 · HealthALEXANDRIA SENIOR HOUSING INC — $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$7,216,570Education$772,489Health$80,704Housing & Shelter$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE — $285,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $284,686 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $247,576 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University — $236,749 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan — $190,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $140,412 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION — $80,704 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIATA COLLEGE — $41,315 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEckerd College — $31,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTMINSTER COLLEGE — $27,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALEXANDRIA SENIOR HOUSING INC — $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budget
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 UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
  • Who funds University of Chicago
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
  • Who funds Carnegie Mellon University
  • Who funds University of Michigan
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
  • Who funds GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION
  • Who funds JUNIATA COLLEGE
  • Who funds Eckerd College

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Coherent Ii-Vi 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 25%
  • University of Delaware25% of income from government
  • Eckerd College0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Coherent Ii-Vi Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Coherent Ii-Vi Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 146 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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