New York · Private foundation
The Coleman 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.
- $262k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $11,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 30
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations The Coleman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $242k | 24% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $217k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $228k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $226k | 36% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $241k | 35% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $223k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | $312,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Charles R Drew University of Medicine and Science | $92,500 | 6 | 0% |
| University of Miami | $60,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Congregation Emanu-El | $50,812 | 6 | n/a |
| Princess Grace Foundation - USA | $49,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Raymond F Kravis Center for the Performing Arts Inc | $48,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc | $47,500 | 1 | 0% |
| El Nido Family Centers | $32,000 | 4 | 0% |
| World Federation of Bergen Belsen Associations Inc | $24,000 | 6 | 18% |
| The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc | $22,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($410k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Coleman Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Coleman Foundation
- How much does The Coleman Foundation give?
- The Coleman Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $261,692 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 30 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Coleman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (39%), Arts & Culture (28%), International (10%).
- Who are The Coleman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center ($313k), Charles R Drew University of Medicine and Science ($93k), University of Miami ($60k).
- Does The Coleman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Coleman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Coleman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, National Philanthropic Trust, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation.
- Where is The Coleman Foundation based?
- The Coleman Foundation is based in NY.
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