· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CRU US MINISTRY | $3,584 |
| INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS INC ATTN DONOR SERVICES | $3,584 |
| CASA OF JEFFERSON COUNTY | $3,350 |
| REDISCOVER DOWNTOWN PERU INC | $3,000 |
| THE FIREHOUSE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER | $3,000 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTHWORX | $2,000 |
| GREATER BIRMINGHAM HUMANE SOCIETY | $2,000 |
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 (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 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 +31% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
37 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. 37 of the 98 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.
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization James O & Alice F Cole Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James O & Alice F Cole Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Helping Our Women Inc: 14% of income from government
How this is measured
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