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The Cole Family Charitable Foundation Co Charles Edwin Cole Trustee

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$99k
Granted FY2025still arriving
54
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 68% of THE COLE FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION CO CHARLES EDWIN COLE TRUSTEE’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.

02FY2025 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k53 grants · $89k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TANNER HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
NORTHSIDE METHODIST CHURCH$8,000
SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION$7,350
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF CARROLLTON$7,250
UVA CANCER CENTER$6,000
THE CITADEL FOUNDATION$5,000
DEERFIELD ACADEMY$5,000
COMMUNITY FDN OF WEST GA$3,250
JCC FOUNDATION$3,000
CARROLLTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS$3,000
OPERATION BEAUTIFUL FEET$2,500
CATHEDRAL OF ST PHILIP PRESCHOOL$2,500
CHILDRENS HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA$2,450
ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN$2,160
FIRST METHODIST CHURCH$2,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ESSIE'S GIFT MINISTRIES: $250 → 13%SEWELL MILL COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 15%CIRCLES OF WEST GEORGIA: $1k → 13%CIRCLES OF WEST GEORGIA: $1k → 13%CIRCLES OF WEST GEORGIA: $1k → 13%CIRCLES OF WEST GEORGIA: $500 → 13%FERST READERS OF CARROLL COUNTY: $500 → 13%FERST READERS OF CARROLL COUNTY: $200 → 13%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

MN
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
CO
VA
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
AL
GA
TX
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$732k · 119 repeat orgs$170k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

119 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 81 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

119
139

Total granted

$732k
$148k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+14%

Still filing today

36%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesReligionPhilanthropyOther

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

  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +122%
  • TW
    The William Breman Jewish Home Inc
    5× · 2018–2022 · $25k · revenue +10%
  • TM
    TANNER MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $15k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • FC
    FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST
    one grant, 2022 · $14k
  • NM
    NORTHWELL MEDICAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • UE
    UGA ENTREPRENEUR PROGRAM
    one grant, 2019 · $5k

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
Rollins College

Education and Public Service Mission: Rollins College educates students for global citizenship and responsible leadership, empowering graduates to pursue meaningful lives and productive careers. We are committed to liberal arts ethos and…

Education
2
Spelman College

Spelman college, a historically black college and global leader in the education of women of african descent, is dedicated to the academic excellence of its students.

Education
3
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
4
Morehouse School of Medicine

Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…

Education
5
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
6
Marietta College

Marietta college (mc) provides a strong foundation for a lifetime of leadership, critical thinking, and problem solving. we achieve this mission by offering undergraduates a contemporary liberal arts education and graduate students an…

Education
7
Southern Wesleyan University

Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.

Education
8
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
9
Emory University

Emory University's mission is to create, preserve, teach, and apply knowledge in the service of humanity. (See Schedule O for continuation)

Education
10
Carleton College

See schedule o.founded in 1866, carleton college is a private, coeducational liberal arts college of 2,007 students located in the historic river town of northfield, minnesota. nationally recognized as the nation's top college for…

Education
11
George Fox University

George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.

Education
12
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Murphy-Harpst Children's Centers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Laona M Kitchen 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.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Christian Missionary Organi…Developmental Disabilities …Community College Foundatio…Military Veterans SupportFood Banks and PantriesLocal History MuseumsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Independent K-12 SchoolsEnvironmental Conservation …Jewish Community Organizati…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 45 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%4%<5yr17%5%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr14%26%20–35yr9%15%35–55yr13%40%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%1%<5yr17%1%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr14%34%20–35yr9%14%35–55yr13%46%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/96
the rest of the field
19%
10,947/58,205

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.

04the grantee network

82 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 82 of the 275 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
80/82
Grantees still filing
56/82
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF CARROLLTON — $55,300 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF CARROLLTONNORTHSIDE METHODIST CHURCH INC — $48,400 · OtherNORTHSIDE METHODIST CHURCH INCPURDUE FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Other+152 more — $490,950 · Other+152 moreTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY — $42,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF DEERFI…THE CITADEL FOUNDATION — $38,500 · EducationTHE CITADEL FOUNDA…OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY — $12,500 · EducationOKLAHOMA CITY UNIV…Oak Grove Montessori School Inc — $11,200 · EducationOak Grove Montesso…The Cathedral Preschool Inc — $6,250 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Education+12 more — $28,600 · Education+12 moreThe William Breman Jewish Home Inc — $25,300 · HealthNATIONAL PSORIASIS FOUNDATION — $16,000 · HealthTANNER MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · HealthPediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc — $4,960 · Health+7 more — $7,800 · HealthCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF W GEORGIA — $17,500 · PhilanthropySHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $15,850 · PhilanthropyTHE IRONMAN FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $2,000 · PhilanthropyATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $3,100 · Arts & CultureCARROLL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $2,700 · Arts & CultureROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC — $1,715 · Arts & CultureTHE PAT CONROY LITERARY CENTER INC — $1,500 · Arts & CultureSOUTHEASTERN QUILT AND TEXTILE MUSEUM — $750 · Arts & CultureBronxville Historical Conservancy Inc — $500 · Arts & CultureTHE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $9,695 · EnvironmentFULLERVILLE MISSION LTD — $3,300 · ReligionINTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE — $2,500 · ReligionSOUTH INDIA CHRISTIAN MISSION INC — $1,750 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $1,000 · Religion
Other$619,650Education$144,050Health$69,060Philanthropy$37,350Arts & Culture$10,265Environment$9,695Religion$8,550

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY — $42,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CITADEL FOUNDATION — $38,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe William Breman Jewish Home Inc — $25,300 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF W GEORGIA — $17,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL PSORIASIS FOUNDATION — $16,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $15,850 over 5y, 38% of budgetTANNER MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetOKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY — $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOak Grove Montessori School Inc — $11,200 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetTHE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $9,695 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $6,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION BEAUTIFUL FEET INC — $6,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc — $4,960 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH — $4,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY INC — $4,500 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetMorris Brandon Elementary School Foundation Inc — $4,400 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCIRCLES OF WEST GEORGIA INC — $3,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetMURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC — $3,450 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $3,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARROLLTON CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $3,050 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPRATT INSTITUTE — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARROLL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $2,700 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONVERSE UNIVERSITY — $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of West Georgia Foundation Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCarroll County Soup Kitchen Inc — $2,425 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LOVETT SCHOOL INC — $2,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEKOTEK OF GEORGIA INC — $2,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJOSH WALDREP FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTHE IRONMAN FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEmpty Stocking Fund Inc — $1,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH INDIA CHRISTIAN MISSION INC — $1,750 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC — $1,715 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frick Collection — $1,655 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Westminster Schools Inc — $1,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $1,550 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAUDITORY VERBAL CENTER INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PAT CONROY LITERARY CENTER INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHELPHOPELIVE INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCaptain Planet Foundation Inc — $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCARROLL COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $1,100 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCARROLLTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATION INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLiteracy Partners Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $1,000 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.

  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY
  • Who funds THE CITADEL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds The William Breman Jewish Home Inc
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF W GEORGIA
  • Who funds NATIONAL PSORIASIS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds TANNER MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds CANTERBURY SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Oak Grove Montessori School Inc
  • Who funds THE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE
  • Who funds The Cathedral Preschool Inc
  • Who funds OPERATION BEAUTIFUL FEET INC

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.

Community Foundation of W GeorgiaGA38.2× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of W Georgia · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · The Mary Alice and Bennett Brown Foundation Inc · Tr Lois & Lucy Lampkin Fdn Ua · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · The Imlay Foundation Inc · THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund · McKesson Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc

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 Cole Family Charitable Foundation Co Charles Edwin Cole Trustee 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 275 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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