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The Coleman Family Foundation

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.

$663k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$225k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$1.1MHealth$1.0MYouth Development$461kCivil Rights$235kCrime & Legal$227kPhilanthropy$170kPublic Benefit$169kInternational$146kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $525k
$5,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA USC MARSHALL SCHOOL OF BUSINESS$225,000
ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC$100,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
THE HONORABLE TIAN BROZMAN FOUNDATION$50,000
GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE$50,000
THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION$50,000
HER JUSTICE INC$30,000
DEMOCRACY MATTERS FOUNDATION$25,000
THE COCO POINT FUND$25,000
ODYSSEY CHARTER SCHOOLS$10,000
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE$10,000
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF GREENWICH$5,000
GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND$5,000
BEST BUDDIES$5,000
RALLY FOUNDATION FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER RESEARCH$5,000
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 (FY17–24, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BY THE BAY HEALTH: $1k → 8%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $15k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $5k → 11%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

VT
NH
WA
MT
IL
NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
VA
MD
TN
DC
GA
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.0M · 28 repeat orgs$555k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
62

Total granted

$3.0M
$447k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+26%

Still filing today

75%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k 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
HealthEducationPhilanthropyCivil RightsInternationalArts & CultureOther

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

  • YN
    YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL
    7× · 2018–2024 · $645k · revenue +47%
  • PA
    President and Fellows of Middlebury College
    7× · 2017–2025 · $420k · revenue +47%
  • TH
    THE HONORABLE TINA BROZMAN FDTN INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $275k · revenue +91%

Funded once

  • AV
    America Votes Education Fund
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • TC
    THE COCO POINT FUND IRMA RELIEF
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • TH
    THE HONORABLE TINA BROZMAN FOUNDATION - TINA'S WISH
    one grant, 2018 · $35k

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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
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
4
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
5
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
7
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
8
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
9
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
10
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
11
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
12
Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Cares Inc and the most unlike its peers is B Cured 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 backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Cancer Support ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyDevelopmental Disabilities …Environmental Conservation …Local History MuseumsHealth Access Advocacy and …Senior Support ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…Food Banks and PantriesCommunity Foundations
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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%4%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%30%10–20yr16%7%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr16%49%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/68
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,497

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

67 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. 67 of the 105 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/67
Grantees still filing
47/67
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $450,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALI…President and Fellows of Middlebury College — $420,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Mi…HER JUSTICE INC — $77,250 · EducationHER JUSTICE INC+11 more — $48,000 · EducationYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL — $645,000 · HealthYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITALTHE HONORABLE TINA BROZMAN FDTN INC — $275,000 · HealthTHE HONORABLE TINA BROZMAN…+13 more — $53,333 · Health+13 moreREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $169,800 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF …COCO POINT FUND INC — $115,000 · OtherCOCO POINT FUND INCTHE HONORABLE TIAN BROZMAN FOUNDATION — $110,000 · OtherTHE HONORABLE TIAN BROZMAN FO…GIFFORDS LAW CENTER — $100,000 · OtherGIFFORDS LAW CENTERTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION — $75,000 · OtherTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUN…Individual grant recipient — $55,000 · OtherTHE COCO POINT FUND IRMA RELIEF — $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $50,000 · OtherFIRST CONGREGATIONAL — $50,000 · Other+52 more — $299,500 · Other+52 moreThe Future Project Inc — $450,000 · PhilanthropyThe Future Project…ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $150,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PHILAN…RALLY FOUNDATION INC — $46,000 · PhilanthropyRALLY FOUNDATION I…+4 more — $19,000 · PhilanthropyGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $110,000 · Civil RightsAmerica Votes Education Fund — $100,000 · Civil RightsOUR AMERICAN FUTURE FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Civil RightsDEMOCRACY MATTERS FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Civil RightsEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $150,000 · Crime & LegalGREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureSHED NYC INC — $25,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$995,250Health$973,333Other$1,074,300Philanthropy$665,000Civil Rights$260,000Crime & Legal$150,000Arts & Culture$51,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL — $645,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $450,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Future Project Inc — $450,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College — $420,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HONORABLE TINA BROZMAN FDTN INC — $275,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $150,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOCO POINT FUND INC — $115,000 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $110,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAmerica Votes Education Fund — $100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHER JUSTICE INC — $77,250 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRALLY FOUNDATION INC — $46,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetABILIS INC — $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC — $30,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetOUR AMERICAN FUTURE FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSHED NYC INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUNDWATERS INC — $21,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $19,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND — $16,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWATERSIDE SCHOOL INC — $15,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK CARES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPREP FOR PREP — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetODYSSEY CHARTER SCHOOLS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH MAIN STREET FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCITIZENS UNION FOUNDATION INC OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $8,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGREENWICH POINT CONSERVANCY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetGREATER LOS ANGELES AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTECITO TRAILS FOUNDATION — $4,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $3,333 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF PRENTICE — $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HILL HOUSE INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTravis Manion Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUND BEACH VOLUNTEER SERVICES FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetB CURED INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc — $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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundThe Goldman Sachs Cha…The Watt Family Found…Marin Community Found…The San Francisco Fou…Silicon Valley Commun…The Old Stones Founda…Cornelia Cogswell Ros…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Boston Foundation IncThe Chicago Community…National Philanthropi…
Jewish Communal FundNY19.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Watt Family Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Old Stones Foundation Inc · Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Coleman Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Abilis Inc — 74% of income from government
  • Pacific House Inc — 46% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • The Hill House Inc — 28% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Soundwaters Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation — 2% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
  • Yale New Haven Hospital — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Coleman Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Coleman 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 105 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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