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The Coleman Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Coleman Family Foundation Inc

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.

$24k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$40kEnvironment$39kEducation$20kHuman Services$10kMembership Benefit$5kArts & Culture$4kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kFood & Nutrition$250
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$136k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EISENHOWER HEALTH FOUNDATION$20,000
WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME$2,500
MARK ARTS$1,000
PALM SPRINGS AIR MUSEUM$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME: $3k → 16%WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME: $3k → 16%WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME: $1k → 16%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$95k · 6 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
7

Total granted

$95k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
0%

Still filing today

50%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
Arts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyAnimalsHuman ServicesEducationOther
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

  • EM
    Eisenhower Medical Center
    4× · 2019–2025 · $30k · revenue +70%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE DESERT
    2× · 2019–2020 · $24k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE DESERT MOUNTAINS
    2× · 2018–2021 · $15k · revenue -13%

Funded once

  • MA
    MIND AND MATTER
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -97%
  • NS
    NORTHFIELD SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • C1
    CHP 11-99 FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +36%
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
Chase Ranch Foundation
Human Services
2
Palm Springs Art Museum

Palm springs art museum creates transformative experiences that expand our understanding of ourselves and the world. palm springs art museum has a wide-reaching and growing permanent collection of over 12,000 objects rooted in modern and…

Arts & Culture
3
Flagstaff Medical Center

Improving health, healing people.

Health
4
Scripps Health

Founded in 1924 by philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps, Scripps Health is a $4.9 billion, private not-for-profit integrated health system in San Diego, Ca. (see Sch O)

Health
5
Sedona Symphony

The Sedona Symphony is committed to enriching the quality of life of our Northern Arizona community through the power of live orchestral music that educates, entertains, and inspires. From timeless classics to bold contemporary works, the…

Arts & Culture
6
Pasadena Museum of California Art

To present the breadth of california art and design through exhibitions that explore the cultural dynamics and influence that are unique to california.

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7
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
8
Museum Associates

To serve the public through the collection, conservation, exhibition and interpretation of significant works of art from a broad range of cultures and historical periods, and through translation of these collections into meaningful…

Arts & Culture
9
Honorhealth

Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.

Health
10
Bakersfield Art Foundation Inc Dba Bakersfield Museum of Art

The Bakersfield Museum of Art inspires and engages diverse audiences by providing a broad spectrum of creative visual arts experiences through the exhibition and preservation of fine art, educational programs, community outreach and…

Arts & Culture
11
San Diego Automotive Museum

The Museum functions as an educational and cultural institutionexercising community responsibility for the preservation of the automotive arts and sciences

Arts & Culture
12
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Desert Mountains; the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF THE DESERT: $23,921 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE DESERTDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION VINTAGE CLUB EMPLOYEE SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $15,000 · OtherDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION VINTAGE CLUB EMPL…BARBARA SINATRA CHILDREN'S CENTER: $3,000 · OtherBARBARA SINATRA CHILDREN'S CENTERSymphony in the Flint Hills Inc: $2,552 · Other+6 more: $4,000 · Other+6 moreEisenhower Medical Center: $30,300 · HealthEisenhower Medical CenterFRIENDS OF THE DESERT MOUNTAINS: $15,245 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF THE…MIND AND MATTER: $10,000 · PhilanthropyMIND AND …THE WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME: $7,143 · Human ServicesNORTHFIELD SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS: $5,000 · EducationCHP 11-99 FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Membership Benefit
Other$48,473Health$30,300Animals$15,245Philanthropy$10,000Human Services$7,143Education$5,000Membership Benefit$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $30,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE DESERT MOUNTAINS: $15,245 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME: $7,143 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHFIELD SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS: $5,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetSymphony in the Flint Hills Inc: $2,552 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMARK ARTS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALM SPRINGS AIR MUSEUM INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Law Enforcement and Firefighters Childrens Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.

    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 16 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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