Skip to content

· Private foundation

The Chase and Stephanie Coleman 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.

$22M
Granted FY2024still arriving
87
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$39MEducation$31MHuman Services$24MPhilanthropy$12MEnvironment$8.8MYouth Development$4.4MFood & Nutrition$3.5MInternational$1.5MOther$0
02FY2024 · 87 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k35 grants · $104k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $328k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+21 grants · $20M
$25,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$374M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC$3,035,500
BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC$2,857,142
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER$2,030,000
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR$2,000,000
HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE$1,916,668
HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY$1,610,000
Individual grant recipient$1,267,594
GREENWAVE ORGANIZATION$525,000
SMART FROM THE START$505,000
Individual grant recipient$500,000
OCEANS 5$500,000
BRILLIANT DETROIT$500,000
SUSTAINABLE OCEAN ALLIANCE INC$500,000
HEALTH FEDERAL OF PHILADELPHIA$450,000
RESTOR FOUNDATION$400,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $24.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOMEN IN NEED: $200k → 10%UNITED HELP UKRAINE: $50k → 6%WOMEN IN NEED: $200k → 10%ZERO TO THREE: $250k → 14%NATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $100k → 8%SUNFLOWER OF PEACE: $50k → 8%WOMEN IN NEED: $3k → 10%EAST END HOSPICE INC: $3k → 7%NATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $50k → 8%SMART FROM THE START: $530k → 16%SMART FROM THE START: $505k → 16%ELEANOR WHITMORE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER INC: $50k → 7%SMART FROM THE START: $30k → 16%WAVES FOR WATER INC: $25k → 14%GARDEN OF HOPE: $3k → 13%LIFE'S WORC: $3k → 6%GOOD FOUNDATION: $78k → 17%GOODFOUNDATION: $75k → 17%GOODFOUNDATION: $75k → 17%GOODFOUNDATION: $50k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $150k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $150k → 17%BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC: $2.9M → 17%BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC: $2.9M → 17%BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC: $2.9M → 17%LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $200k → 17%LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $200k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID: $1.4M → 17%CHILDREN'S AID: $1.2M → 17%CHILDREN'S AID: $350k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID: $250k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID: $113k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $200k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $200k → 17%GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $50k → 17%GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $50k → 17%GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $50k → 17%GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $50k → 17%GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $50k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID: $250k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID: $100k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID: $100k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $2.1M → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $1.9M → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $1.9M → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $1.9M → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $300k → 17%WIN NYC: $10k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
NC
DC
AL
TX
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$128M · 114 repeat orgs$5.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

114 repeat relationships: 64 still active in FY2024, 50 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

114
97

Total granted

$128M
$4.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+1%

Still filing today

78%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsInternationalFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TC
    THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD
    8× · 2017–2024 · $12M · revenue +19%
  • TF
    TIGER FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2021 · $12M · revenue +108% · 83% of their budget
  • TH
    The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc
    3× · 2020–2022 · $5.6M · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • WC
    WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE
    one grant, 2020 · $500k
  • TE
    THE EAST HARLEM SCHOOL AT EXODUS HOUSE
    one grant, 2020 · $400k
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL FEDERATION OF NY
    one grant, 2017 · $350k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
2
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
3
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
4
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
5
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
7
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
New York Blood Center Inc

As one of the most preeminent and comprehensive blood centers in theworld, nybc operates under a four-part mission. for more information,see sch. o and part iii, 4a-c.

Health
12
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grantmakers for Education; the most unlike its peers is Frederick Banting Foundation Inc. 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

178 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. 178 of the 236 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
176/178
Grantees still filing
103/178
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TIGER FOUNDATION: $12,000,000 · OtherTIGER FOUNDATIONMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $8,604,044 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $6,780,000 · OtherHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERYAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL FOUNDATION: $3,880,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL FOUNDATION+108 more: $20,870,337 · Other+108 moreTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD: $12,050,000 · EducationTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTDTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $2,640,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD…THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $2,600,000 · EducationTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVE…Indiana University Foundation: $2,525,000 · EducationIndiana University Fo…PAVE SCHOOLS INC: $1,850,000 · EducationPAVE SCHOOLS INCEXODUS SCHOOL: $1,340,000 · EducationTeach for America Inc: $1,300,000 · Education+18 more: $2,462,500 · Education+18 moreBLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC: $8,571,426 · Human ServicesBLUE MERIDIAN PARTN…HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $8,497,450 · Human ServicesHARLEM CHILDREN'S Z…THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $3,721,155 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S AID …SMART FROM THE START INC: $1,065,000 · Human Services+16 more: $2,332,500 · Human Services+16 moreNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $9,935,500 · HealthNEW YORK-PRESB…The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc: $5,620,000 · HealthThe Hospital f…BONE MARROW & CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $843,000 · Health+12 more: $1,640,000 · Health+12 moreNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $6,000,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL …ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $5,552,750 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOO…ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $500,000 · Philanthropy+9 more: $342,500 · PhilanthropyIMENTOR INC: $1,455,354 · Youth DevelopmentNYC KIDS RISE INC: $1,218,000 · Youth DevelopmentBRILLIANT DETROIT: $1,000,000 · Youth Development+4 more: $162,500 · Youth DevelopmentLAND TO LEARN: $1,400,000 · Food & NutritionCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $1,000,000 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVEST INC: $400,000 · Food & NutritionSKY HIGH FARM INC: $112,500 · Food & Nutrition+5 more: $232,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$52,134,381Education$26,767,500Human Services$24,187,531Health$18,038,500Philanthropy$12,395,250Youth Development$3,835,854Food & Nutrition$3,145,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD: $12,050,000 over 8y, 6.6% of budgetTIGER FOUNDATION: $12,000,000 over 4y, 83% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $9,935,500 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetBLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC: $8,571,426 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $8,497,450 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $6,000,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc: $5,620,000 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $5,552,750 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $3,721,155 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $2,640,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $2,600,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $2,525,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPAVE SCHOOLS INC: $1,850,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetIMENTOR INC: $1,455,354 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetLAND TO LEARN: $1,400,000 over 8y, 43% of budgetEXODUS SCHOOL: $1,340,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $1,300,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSUSTAINABLE OCEAN ALLIANCE INC: $1,220,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetNYC KIDS RISE INC: $1,218,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetSMART FROM THE START INC: $1,065,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $1,000,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetBRILLIANT DETROIT: $1,000,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetBONE MARROW & CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $843,000 over 8y, 12% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC: $825,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetGREENWAVE ORGANIZATION CORP: $675,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $582,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBABY2BABY: $500,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC: $475,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetALL OUR KIN INC: $425,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetWOMEN IN NEED: $402,500 over 3y, 80% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $400,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $400,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $400,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMUSICARES FOUNDATION INC: $385,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $350,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSCHOOL OF LEADERSHIP-AFGHANISTAN INC: $325,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetCLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD PLUS FOUNDATION INC: $277,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $276,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetZERO TO THREE NATIONAL CENTER FOR INFANTS TODDLERS AND FAMILIES: $250,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPublic Health Institute: $250,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetABORTION CARE NETWORK: $250,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $250,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC: $225,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE BUCKLEY SCHOOL: $200,000 over 3y, 0.3% 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 THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD ↗
  • Who funds TIGER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC ↗
  • Who funds HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
  • Who funds The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc ↗
  • Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PAVE SCHOOLS INC ↗
  • Who funds IMENTOR INC ↗
  • Who funds LAND TO LEARN ↗
  • Who funds EXODUS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds SUSTAINABLE OCEAN ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds NYC KIDS RISE INC ↗
  • Who funds SMART FROM THE START INC ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
  • Who funds BRILLIANT DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds BONE MARROW & CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
  • Who funds GREENWAVE ORGANIZATION CORP ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗

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.

Robertson FoundationNY27.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Robertson Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · Al Mailman Family Foundation Inc · Open Society Institute · Brooklyn Community Foundation · The Ford Foundation · New York State Health Fdn D/B/A New York Health Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Pinkerton Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation

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 The Chase and Stephanie Coleman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Chase and Stephanie Coleman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Smart From the Start Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Martin County: 2% of income from government
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
  • All Our Kin Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
39report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Chase and Stephanie Coleman Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Chase and Stephanie Coleman 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 236 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.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Chase and Stephanie Coleman’s filings →

More from the funding graph