· Private foundation
The Clarence B Coleman and Joan F Coleman Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 62% of The Clarence B Coleman and Joan F Coleman Charitable Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k31 grants · $130k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $136k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Planned Parenthood Mar Monte | $35,000 |
| Alameda County Food Bank | $30,000 |
| Planned Parenthood - Prince Georges | $25,000 |
| Capital Area Food Bank | $15,000 |
| Breast Cancer Action | $11,000 |
| Alameda County Meals on Wheels | $10,000 |
| ALIVE | $10,000 |
| Alameda Point Collaborative | $8,000 |
| Tampa Bay Watch | $8,000 |
| House of Ruth | $7,000 |
| FINCA - Fighting Poverty with Finan | $6,000 |
| The Phillips Collection | $5,000 |
| Doctors Without Borders | $5,000 |
| Project HOPE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $81k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of The Clarence B Coleman and Joan F Coleman Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +37% since the first grant, against -29% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $185k 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
ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK7× · 2018–2024 · $184k · revenue +118%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC6× · 2018–2023 · $73k · revenue +30%- FIFOODSHARE INC6× · 2018–2023 · $58k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- CMCharlotte Maxwell Clinicone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -40%
- CCCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +32%
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +80%
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.
Founded in 1977, The Alameda Food Bank is a non-profit organization that helps Alameda residents in need by providing nourishing food in compassionate and respectful manner with the support of dedicated volunteers and local partners.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
California association of food banks (cafb) is a non-profit public benefit corporation located in oakland, california. together with its 41-member foodbanks, cafb is the largest charitable hunger-relief and anti-hunger leader in the state.…
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
Asian Health Services (AHS) provides a continuum of medical care, mental health care, dental care and other healthcare services for all, including health education; perinatal services; behavioral health; family and youth services;…
Public health institute generates and promotes research, leadership and partnerships to build capacity for strong public health policy, programs, systems and practices.
The organization's mission is to mobilize resources to fight hunger in our community. to fulfill its mission, the food bank:* sources and acquires nutritious food and other products and distribute them to people experiencing nutrition…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The National Museum of Women in the Arts. 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 38 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 71 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 Womens Cancer Resource Center ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC ↗
- Who funds MILLS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds George Mark Childrens Fund ↗
- Who funds NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-CITY VOLUNTEERS INC ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Charlotte Maxwell Clinic ↗
- Who funds THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds HANDS ON HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA POINT COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Peninsula Food Runners Inc ↗
- Who funds BREAST CANCER ACTION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALIVE Inc ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF ALAMEDA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds City Slicker Farms ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds TAMPA BAY WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF RUTH INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BREAST CANCER COALITION ↗
- Who funds DANCE PLACE ↗
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 Sylvan C Coleman Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The William G Irwin Charity Foundation · Walter and Elise Haas Fund
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 The Clarence B Coleman and Joan F Coleman Charitable 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.
- Newark Public Radio Inc — 51% of income from government
- Hands On Hartford Inc — 20% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc — 10% of income from government
- New Britain Museum of American Art Inc — 7% of income from government
- The American Visionary Art Museum Inc — 6% of income from government
- Connecticut Children's Medical Center — 5% 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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