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The Colburn Family Foundation at a glance

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The Colburn Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$494k
Granted FY2024still arriving
89
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$105k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$1.2MReligion$782kPhilanthropy$514kEducation$306kArts & Culture$214kYouth Development$163kHuman Services$148kRecreation & Sports$87kOther$0
02FY2024 · 89 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k76 grants · $139k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $180k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
$1,500
Median grant
14
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KIDS CONNECT CHARITABLE FUND$105,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY$70,000
ALEPH INSTITUTE$26,000
ACLU OF FLORIDA$25,000
YESHIVA OF GREATER WASHINGTON$20,000
CHABAD OF EAST DELRAY$18,900
UW FOUNDATION$16,667
LECHEM LASOVA$15,000
MARINE EDUCATION INITIATIVE INC$15,000
MARYLAND HILLEL$12,610
BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$10,360
SALVATION ARMY - PASADENA SOCIAL SERVICES$10,000
FAMILIES AGAINST MANDATORY MINIMUMS$10,000
SPADY CULTURAL HERITAGE MUSEUM$8,000
CHABAD OF POTOMAC$7,500
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, $96k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LARGER THAN LIFE USA: $3k → 13%MOTHERS AGAINST MURDERERS ASSOCIATION: $3k → 11%CRISTO REY COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 → 9%NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTERS INC: $5k → 17%CHAI4EVER: $6k → 11%LANGLEY RESIDENTIAL SUPPORT SERVICES: $3k → 6%VALHALLA SAILING PROJECT: $1k → 6%MOTHERS AGAINST MURDERERS ASSOCIATION: $1k → 11%CHAI4EVER: $6k → 11%MOTHERS AGAINST MURDERERS ASSOCIATION: $1k → 11%CHAI4EVER: $6k → 11%CHAI4EVER: $6k → 11%CHAI4EVER: $6k → 11%CHAI4EVER: $6k → 11%CRISTO REY COMMUNITY CENTER: $250 → 9%CHAI4EVER: $6k → 11%CRISTO REY COMMUNITY CENTER: $250 → 9%CHAI4EVER: $6k → 11%CRISTO REY COMMUNITY CENTER: $250 → 9%CRISTO REY COMMUNITY CENTER: $250 → 9%CRISTO REY COMMUNITY CENTER: $250 → 9%CRISTO REY COMMUNITY CENTER: $250 → 9%SOS INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 8%BOCA WEST CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%SOS INTERNATIONAL: $3k → 8%BOCA WEST CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%INTERFAITH COMMITTEE FOR SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $1k → 11%SOS INTERNATIONAL: $2k → 8%INTERFAITH COMMITTEE FOR SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $1k → 11%INTERFAITH COMMITTEE FOR SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $1k → 11%INTERFAITH COMMITTEE FOR SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $1k → 11%SULAM: $4k → 8%SULAM: $3k → 8%PASADENA SENIOR CENTER: $2k → 14%PASADENA SENIOR CENTER: $2k → 14%PASADENA SENIOR CENTER: $2k → 14%PASADENA SENIOR CENTER: $2k → 14%SULAM: $1k → 8%SULAM: $1k → 8%HEBREW SHELTERING HOME: $360 → 8%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

NH
WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
OH
NJ
CA
VA
MD
AR
TN
NC
DC
OK
GA
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of The Colburn Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Colburn Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.3% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
$3.1M · 99 repeat orgs$140k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

99 repeat relationships: 74 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

99
66

Total granted

$3.1M
$101k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+23%

Still filing today

57%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
Human ServicesEnvironmentEducationHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • TA
    THE ALEPH INSTITUTE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $211k · revenue +123%
  • YO
    YESHIVA OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $170k · revenue +44%
  • BA
    BEN AND ESTHER ROSENBLOOM HILLEL CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT UNIVERSITY OF MD
    8× · 2017–2024 · $87k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +22%
  • PH
    Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +17%
  • OF
    OUR FATHERS HOUSE SOUP KITCHEN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +63%
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
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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2
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
3
Yehudi Inc

The Organizations goal is to inspire a movement of meaningful Judaism throughout South Florida and to strengthen Jewish identity through Jewish education. The Organization accomplishes this by offering dynamic programming, social events,…

Religion
4
Avodah the Jewish Service Corps Inc

Avodah develops lifelong social justice leaders whose work is informed by jewish values and who inspire the jewish community to work toward a more just and equitable world.

Community Improvement
5
The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee Inc

To strengthen jewish life and identity in our community, provide for jewish people in need and promote support for israel.

Philanthropy
6
Jewish Federation of San Diego County

Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.

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7
Bureau of Jewish Education of Greater Los Angeles Inc

Bje enhances the quality of, increases access to, and encourages participation in jewish education throughout the jewish communities of greater los angeles. bje is an advocate, planner, catalyst, and creative leader for strengthening and…

Religion
8
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…

International
9
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
10
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

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11
Greater Miami Hebrew Academy

To provide quality education to all jewish children in both the secular and judaic areas.

Religion
12
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Masonboroorg. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

110 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 110 of the 183 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
104/110
Grantees still filing
74/110
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KIDS CONNECT CHARITABLE FUND: $933,500 · PhilanthropyKIDS CONNECT CHARITABLE FUNDJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $318,600 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY …THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $160,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON I…+8 more: $70,040 · PhilanthropyLECHEM LASOVA INC: $121,200 · OtherLECHEM LASOVA INCBENDER JEWISH COMM CNTR OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $95,720 · OtherBENDER JEWISH COMM CNTR OF GREATER WASHINGT…BEN AND ESTHER ROSENBLOOM HILLEL CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT UNIVERSITY OF MD: $87,110 · OtherBEN AND ESTHER ROSENBLOOM HILLEL CENTER FOR…BETH SHOLOM CONGREGATION & TALMUD: $82,360 · OtherBETH SHOLOM CONGREGATION & TALMUDFAMILIES AGAINST MANDATORY MINIMUMS: $77,000 · OtherFAMILIES AGAINST MANDATORY MINIMUMSACLU OF FLORIDA: $75,000 · OtherCHABAD OF POTOMAC: $73,900 · OtherCHABAD OF EAST DELRAY: $63,900 · OtherSALVATION ARMY - PASADENA SOCIAL SERVICES: $55,000 · OtherCHAI LIFELINE INC: $47,750 · Other+125 more: $643,275 · Other+125 moreYESHIVA OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $170,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $16,667 · EducationDELRAY BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC: $9,000 · EducationYESHIVAT CHOVEVEI TORAH RABBINICAL SCHOOL LTD (FORMERLY THE MEOROT INST): $8,000 · Education+5 more: $24,500 · EducationTHE ALEPH INSTITUTE INC: $210,500 · Crime & Legal+2 more: $5,300 · Crime & LegalBoca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc: $128,940 · Community ImprovementWEST ATLANTIC REDEVELOPMENT COALITION INC: $40,000 · Community ImprovementBIKUR CHOLIM OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $7,700 · Community ImprovementJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $7,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $2,000 · Community ImprovementCHAI 4EVER INC: $47,750 · Human ServicesSOS INTERNATIONAL INC: $9,000 · Human ServicesSulam Inc: $8,100 · Human ServicesPASADENA SENIOR CENTER: $7,200 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTERS INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesMOTHERS AGAINST MURDERERS ASSOCIATION INC: $4,500 · Human ServicesInterfaith Committee for Social Services: $4,000 · Human Services+9 more: $12,220 · Human ServicesMARINE EDUCATION INITIATIVE INC: $60,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $12,600 · Recreation & SportsSWIM UP HILL FOUNDATION INC: $6,400 · Recreation & SportsSTREETWAVES INC: $6,400 · Recreation & Sports
Philanthropy$1,482,140Other$1,422,215Education$228,167Crime & Legal$215,800Community Improvement$185,640Human Services$97,770Recreation & Sports$85,400

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 budgetKIDS CONNECT CHARITABLE FUND: $933,500 over 8y, 20% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $318,600 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ALEPH INSTITUTE INC: $210,500 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetYESHIVA OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $170,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $160,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc: $128,940 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBEN AND ESTHER ROSENBLOOM HILLEL CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT UNIVERSITY OF MD: $87,110 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILIES AGAINST MANDATORY MINIMUMS: $77,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetMARINE EDUCATION INITIATIVE INC: $60,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetCHAI 4EVER INC: $47,750 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $47,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWEST ATLANTIC REDEVELOPMENT COALITION INC: $40,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetSPADY CULTURAL HERITAGE MUSEUM INC: $39,800 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetMELVIN J BERMAN HEBREW ACADEMY: $32,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MESHI INC: $32,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR DAYANIM: $27,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetUS FRIENDS OF YAD EZRAH INC: $17,200 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $16,667 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $12,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HOUSE - DELRAY BEACH INC: $9,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetDELRAY BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC: $9,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSOS INTERNATIONAL INC: $9,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUNFLOWER BAKERY INC: $8,100 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSulam Inc: $8,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVAT CHOVEVEI TORAH RABBINICAL SCHOOL LTD (FORMERLY THE MEOROT INST): $8,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBIKUR CHOLIM OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $7,700 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PASADENA: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDELRAY BEACH YOUTH TENNIS FOUNDATION COR: $7,500 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetPASADENA SENIOR CENTER: $7,200 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRUTH & NORMAN RALES JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $7,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $7,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPalm Beach County Literacy Coalition Inc: $6,600 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSWIM UP HILL FOUNDATION INC: $6,400 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetSTREETWAVES INC: $6,400 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF MEOR ISRAEL: $6,300 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY CHILD CARE CENTER OF DELRAY BEACH INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $5,540 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF JORDAN RIVER VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $5,400 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDELRAY CHAMBER EDUCATION FUND INC: $5,400 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KEHILLAT NOFEI HASHEMESH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHolt Community Food Bank: $5,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetPasadena Hospital Association Ltd: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUR FATHERS HOUSE SOUP KITCHEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 KIDS CONNECT CHARITABLE FUND ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ALEPH INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
  • Who funds Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds BEN AND ESTHER ROSENBLOOM HILLEL CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT UNIVERSITY OF MD ↗
  • Who funds FAMILIES AGAINST MANDATORY MINIMUMS ↗
  • Who funds MARINE EDUCATION INITIATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHAI 4EVER INC ↗
  • Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
  • Who funds WEST ATLANTIC REDEVELOPMENT COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds SPADY CULTURAL HERITAGE MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds MELVIN J BERMAN HEBREW ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MESHI INC ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR DAYANIM ↗
  • Who funds US FRIENDS OF YAD EZRAH INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
  • Who funds CITY HOUSE - DELRAY BEACH 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.

Community Foundation …The Jim Moran Foundat…The Dennis Berman Fam…United Way of Palm Be…Aviv Foundation IncBrian and Dafna Berma…The Kahan Family Foun…Palm Healthcare Found…Lost Tree Village Cha…Quantum Foundation IncLeslie L Alexander Fo…Jewish Communal Fund
Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties IncFL35.2× affinity17 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · The Jim Moran Foundation Inc · The Dennis Berman Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Palm Beach County Inc · Aviv Foundation Inc · Brian and Dafna Berman Family Foundation Inc · The Kahan Family Foundation · Palm Healthcare Foundation Inc · Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation · Quantum Foundation Inc · Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund

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 Colburn Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Colburn Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 330%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Greater Washington Jewish Coalition Contd: 28% of income from government
  • Melvin J Berman Hebrew Academy: 2% of income from government
  • National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Chai 4EVER Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Yeshiva of Greater Washington Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Jack the Bike Man Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Aleph Institute Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
33get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 Colburn Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Colburn Family 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 183 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.

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