· Private foundation
The Cole Foundation Trust #1255001231
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 97% of THE COLE FOUNDATION TRUST #1255001231’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 · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JUNIOR AUXILIARY OF RANKIN COUNTY | $13,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY IN ALABAMA | $12,000 |
| ST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $9,000 |
| CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $4,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH ALABAMA | $2,500 |
| LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE | $2,500 |
| ST BENEDICT'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $2,000 |
| WAVE OF HEARTS | $1,000 |
| MEMORIAL TRUST OF THE NSCDA IN ALABAMA | $1,000 |
| UMS-WRIGHT PREPATORY SCHOOL | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
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 +57% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- JAJUNIOR AUXILIARY OF RANKIN COUNTY MISSISSIPPI INC4× · 2022–2025 · $45k · revenue +6%
- TCTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +57%
- TLTHE LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE A NONPROF CORPORATION4× · 2017–2025 · $6k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- GSGOVERNMENT STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $1k
- UCUMS-WRIGHT CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +34%
- TWTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +124%
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.
Christian pre-school
Animal rescue shelter
Cat rescue operation
Prevention of cruelty to animals
Animal rescue
Animal shelter and humane society.
Animal Rescue
Animal shelter & education awareness
To care for homeless animals (providing food, shelter and medical care) and find them a suitable home.
Educational Services
Sanctuary for abused animals
Non profit wildlife sanctuary
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Prichard Preparatory School Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wave of Hearts Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 22 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 JUNIOR AUXILIARY OF RANKIN COUNTY MISSISSIPPI INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE A NONPROF CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds Wave of Hearts Inc ↗
- Who funds UMS-WRIGHT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds MOBILE SOCIETY FOR PREVENTION OF CR ↗
- Who funds PRICHARD PREPARATORY SCHOOL 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.
Open a dossier: Cd Helen and Jeff Glaze Foundation · Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank Trustee · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Foundation Trust #1255001231 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.
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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