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James O & Alice F Cole 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $47k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $11,867 |
| INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $11,867 |
| INDIANA TASK FORCE 1 | $11,866 |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY KOKOMO | $11,500 |
| NWSCC FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| LAKELAND CENTER | $6,000 |
| MIAMI CTY ECONOMIC DEV ASSOC | $5,000 |
| MIAMI COUNTY YMCA | $4,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS INC ATTN DONOR SERVICES | $3,584 |
| CRU US MINISTRY | $3,584 |
| CASA OF JEFFERSON COUNTY | $3,350 |
| THE FIREHOUSE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER | $3,000 |
| REDISCOVER DOWNTOWN PERU INC | $3,000 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTHWORX | $2,000 |
| GREATER BIRMINGHAM HUMANE SOCIETY | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $127k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MCMIAMI COUNTY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $55k · revenue +157%
- IHINDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY5× · 2021–2025 · $48k · revenue +11%
- LCLAKELAND CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- AFARTHITIS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $9k
- MCMIAMI COUNTY YMCA-CAPITAL CAMPAIGNone grant, 2023 · $8k
- PCPERU COMMUNITY SCHOOLSone grant, 2022 · $8k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Casa of st. louis advocates for abused and neglected children and youth in st. louis by representing their best interests in court and in the community. our vision is that every child lives in a safe permanent home and has the opportunity…
To establish, implement and maintain a comprehensive plan and program for the delivery of primary health services to the medically indigent, medically needy and other persons in the city and county of erie.
The organization pledges to provide quality programs, service, and technology to meet the unique physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the terminally ill and their families, and to educate the community about end of life issues.
Improve human health and well-being through animal-assisted therapy.
Primary health care services: delivery of health care to medically underserved community
In the spirit of christ's love, the ministry of united church of christ homes is to provide care and service to elders through acts of love and compassion.
Partnering for wellness: healthy mind, healthy body, healthy life.
Providing safe shelter through collaborative care.
The mission of austin street center is to provide emergency shelter and related services to the homeless. programs provide crisis intervention, substance abuse awareness information and opportunities to improve present life situations to…
Children's services
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
Empower patients to partner with staff for an unparalleled healthcare experience through integrated primary care services teams in a learning environment. we deliver high quality, affordable care to every patient during all stages of life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa of Jefferson County and the most unlike its peers is Railroad Park Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
37 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 98 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 MIAMI COUNTY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LAKELAND CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PIANO AWARDS INC ↗
- Who funds REDISCOVER DOWNTOWN PERU INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FIREHOUSE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER LLC ↗
- Who funds BIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CASA OF JEFFERSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NorthStar Soccer Ministries ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING OUR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER BIRMINGHAM HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED COUNSELING ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation · Robert R Meyer Foundation · United Way of Central Alabama Inc · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Protective Life Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc · Mar C Richards Char Found Inc Dba McR Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization James O & Alice F Cole 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.
- Helping Our Women Inc — 14% of income from government
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.
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