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James H Cole Legacy Foundation

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.

$2k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Food & Nutrition$17kYouth Development$8kHousing & Shelter$4kHealth$3kArts & Culture$2k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$25k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AZAL BENNE LOCKETT FOUNDATION$1,000
AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE WELLNESS AGENCY$500
02The need
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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 (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 18%COMMONWEALTH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY: $850 → 21%AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE WELLNESS AGENCY: $500 → 15%BETHLEHEM HOUSE OF DETROIT INC: $250 → 21%PURE HEART FOUNDATION: $3k → 21%PURE HEART FOUNDATION: $500 → 21%PURE HEART FOUNDATION: $250 → 21%DETROIT COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL AT NORTHWESTERN: $9k → 21%NW GOLDBERG CARES: $2k → 21%JAMES H COLE FUNERAL HOME (FOOD FOR NEEDY FAMILIES AND INDIVIDUALS): $1k → 21%COTS (FOOD FOR HOMELESS FAMILIES): $3k → 21%COTS: $2k → 21%COTS (FOOD FOR FIRST RESPONDERS): $1k → 21%HENRY FORD HOSPITAL (FOOD FOR FIRST RESPONDERS): $3k → 21%SQUAD 5 (FOOD FOR FIRST RESPONDERS): $308 → 21%YOUTH ARE BIGGER THAN LIFE INC: $4k → 21%AZAL BENNE LOCKETT FOUNDATION: $1k → 21%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 field
04the grantee network

5 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. 5 of the 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
3/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DETROIT COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL AT NORTHWESTERN: $8,959 · OtherDETROIT COLLEGIATE PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL AT NORTHWESTERNYOUTH ARE BIGGER THAN LIFE INC: $3,500 · OtherYOUTH ARE BIGGER THAN LIFE INCCOTS (FOOD FOR HOMELESS FAMILIES): $3,256 · OtherCOTS (FOOD FOR HOMELESS FAMILIES)HENRY FORD HOSPITAL (FOOD FOR FIRST RESPONDERS): $2,599 · OtherHENRY FORD HOSPITAL (FOOD FOR FIRST RESPONDERS)JAMES H COLE FUNERAL HOME (FOOD FOR NEEDY FAMILIES AND INDIVIDUALS): $1,499 · OtherJAMES H COLE FUNERAL HOME (FOOD FOR NEEDY FAMILIES AND INDIVIDUALS)PH1LL FOUNDATION: $1,000 · OtherCOMMONWEALTH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY: $850 · Other+2 more: $558 · OtherPURE HEART FOUNDATION: $3,947 · Youth DevelopmentPURE HEART FO…COTS: $3,815 · Housing & ShelterCOTSNW GOLDBERG CARES INC: $1,500 · Arts & CultureAZAL BENNE LOCKETT FOUNDATION: $1,000 · HealthNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN: $500 · Health
Other$22,221Youth Development$3,947Housing & Shelter$3,815Arts & Culture$1,500Health$1,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPURE HEART FOUNDATION: $3,947 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCOTS: $3,815 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNW GOLDBERG CARES INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAZAL BENNE LOCKETT FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN: $500 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.

  • Who funds PURE HEART FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COTS ↗
  • Who funds NW GOLDBERG CARES INC ↗
  • Who funds AZAL BENNE LOCKETT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Community Foundation for SoutheastMI13.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover 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 James H Cole Legacy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James H Cole Legacy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to James H Cole Legacy 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 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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