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Mary D Coles Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$60k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Education$259kArts & Culture$26kScience & Tech$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$806k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN FD$10,000
MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE$10,000
SIMMONS UNIVERSITY$10,000
MAINE COLLEGE OF ART$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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 79% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CURRY COLLEGE: $5k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHU: $5k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MA DARTMOUTH: $5k → 11%MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $10k → 12%WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECH: $15k → 16%HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY: $11k → 6%SKIDMORE COLLEGE: $10k → 7%RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $11k → 11%ITHACA COLLEGE: $8k → 16%THE NEW SCHOOL: $5k → 17%AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $4k → 14%RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART: $10k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON: $10k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $10k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $5k → 11%QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $3k → 12%BELMONT UNIVERSITY: $13k → 14%SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN: $5k → 16%VERTO EDUCATION: $10k → 12%RIDER UNIVERSITY: $11k → 11%MAINE COLLEGE OF ART: $10k → 7%LESLEY UNIVERSITY: $15k → 8%MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN FD: $10k → 16%HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY: $10k → 6%ITHACA COLLEGE: $5k → 16%THE NEW SCHOOL: $5k → 17%RIDER UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%LESLEY UNIVERSITY: $10k → 8%SIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY: $10k → 6%DEAN COLLEGE: $5k → 8%MA COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $8k → 16%HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY: $8k → 6%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $3k → 8%BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $6k → 16%BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $5k → 16%BOSTON CONSERVATORY AT BERKLEE: $5k → 16%SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%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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NY
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NJ
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CO
TN
DC
GA
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.

39%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$114k · 6 repeat orgs$181k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
17

Total granted

$114k
$121k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+9%

Still filing today

100%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

  • HU
    HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $39k · revenue +16%
  • BC
    BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $11k · revenue +25%
  • TN
    The New School
    2× · 2021–2023 · $10k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • WI
    WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECH
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • BU
    Belmont University
    one grant, 2024 · $13k · revenue +11%
  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    one grant, 2021 · $11k · revenue +20%

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.

1
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
2
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
3
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
4
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
5
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
6
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
7
Albright College

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

Education
8
Hillsdale College

Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…

Education
9
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
10
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
11
Monmouth University Inc

See schedule omonmouth university is a comprehensive institution of higher education committed to excellence and integrity in teaching, scholarship and service. through its offerings in liberal arts, sciences, and professional programs,…

Education
12
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Quinnipiac University and the most unlike its peers is Savannah College of Art and DesignInc. 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

20 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. 20 of the 30 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
11/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY — $39,000 · EducationHOFSTRA UNIVERSITYRIDER UNIVERSITY — $16,000 · EducationRIDER UNIVERSITYBelmont University — $13,200 · EducationBelmont UniversityITHACA COLLEGE — $13,000 · EducationITHACA COLLEGEBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC — $11,000 · EducationBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INCRensselaer Polytechnic Institute — $11,000 · EducationRensselaer Polytechnic InstituteThe New School — $10,000 · EducationSIMMONS UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · EducationSKIDMORE COLLEGE — $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD — $10,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE — $10,000 · EducationMAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN — $10,000 · Education+7 more — $26,500 · Education+7 moreLESLEY UNIVERSITY — $25,000 · OtherLESLEY UNIVERSITYWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECH — $15,000 · OtherWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHUNIVERSITY OF OREGON — $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF OREGONMASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN FD — $10,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN FDRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART — $10,000 · OtherRINGLING COLLEGE OF ARTIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMA COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN — $8,000 · OtherMA COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGNUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHU — $5,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MA DARTMOUTH — $5,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT — $5,000 · OtherBOSTON CONSERVATORY AT BERKLEE — $5,000 · Other
Education$189,700Other$108,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHOFSTRA UNIVERSITY — $39,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLESLEY UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIDER UNIVERSITY — $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBelmont University — $13,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetITHACA COLLEGE — $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC — $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRensselaer Polytechnic Institute — $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New School — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIMMONS UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSKIDMORE COLLEGE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCURRY COLLEGE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSavannah College of Art and DesignInc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEAN COLLEGE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUFFOLK UNIVERSITY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA10.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Mary D Coles 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 5% of income from government
  • University of Hartford — 1% of income from government
  • Rider University — 1% of income from government
  • Suffolk University — 1% of income from government
  • Curry College — 0% of income from government
  • Quinnipiac University — 0% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 0% of income from government
  • Simmons University — 0% of income from government
  • Lesley University — 0% of income from government
  • Berklee College of Music Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

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 30 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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