Indiana · Private foundation
Olive B Cole Foundation Inc
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 48
- Grants FY2026
- 56
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 41%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $226,250
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 56
- FY2020 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 2
- Total assets, FY2026
- $32M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 41% of the organizations Olive B Cole Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 51% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $623k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 48 | $1.5M | 31% |
| FY2025 | 56 | $1.2M | 41% |
| FY2024 | 37 | $944k | 41% |
| FY2023 | 43 | $1.2M | 26% |
| FY2022 | 45 | $1.0M | 31% |
| FY2021 | 44 | $1.1M | 41% |
| FY2020 | 40 | $934k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cole Center Family YMCA | $645,000 | 6 | 7% |
| Trine University | $412,602 | 5 | 0% |
| Fort Wayne Zoological Society Inc | $351,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Junior Achievement of Northern in Inc | $334,300 | 7 | 2% |
| Questa Education Foundation Inc | $272,000 | 6 | 2% |
| St Martins Healthcare Inc | $205,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Science Central Inc | $175,538 | 7 | 2% |
| Garrett Community Center | $160,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Inspiration Ministries Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Cancer Services of Allen County Inc | $148,000 | 7 | 1% |
Show all 75 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 61 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Olive B Cole Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 52 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 James Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Aws Foundation Inc · Edward M Wilson Foundation · Dekko Foundation Inc · Zollner Foundation · Noble County Community Foundation Inc · Surack Family Foundation Inc · Howard P Arnold Foundation Inc · M E Raker Foundation Inc · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn
How this is measured
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About Olive B Cole Foundation Inc
- How much does Olive B Cole Foundation Inc give?
- Olive B Cole Foundation Inc reported 48 grants totaling $1,468,312 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 56 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2025.
- What does Olive B Cole Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (29%), Human Services (11%), Health (7%).
- Who are Olive B Cole Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2026: Cole Center Family YMCA ($645k), Trine University ($413k), Fort Wayne Zoological Society Inc ($351k).
- Does Olive B Cole Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Olive B Cole Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Olive B Cole Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The James Foundation Inc, Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc, English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn.
- Where is Olive B Cole Foundation Inc based?
- Olive B Cole Foundation Inc is based in IN.
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