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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 FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Health$580kArts & Culture$424kInternational$147kEducation$106kPublic Safety & Disaster$68kReligion$59kHuman Services$44kPhilanthropy$19kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $226k
$11,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER PERFORMING ARTS$40,000
CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE$30,000
CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER$25,000
PALM BEACH POLICE FIRE FOUNDATION$24,010
EL NIDO FAMILY CENTERS$22,500
THE JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$20,000
PRINCESS GRACE FOUNDATION - USA$18,000
LIGHTHOUSE ART CENTER INC$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONASALT CENTER$11,000
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$10,000
BEAUX ART OF THE LOWE ART MUSEUM OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI INC$10,000
CONGREGATION EMANU-EL$9,682
UCLA HEALTH SCIENCES DEVELOPMENT - RAPE TREATMENT CENTER$5,000
GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE$5,000
THE FOUNDATION OF THE MEEI INC - MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR$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 (FY21–22, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SUNRISE DAY CAMPUS ASSOCIATION: $1k → 6%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $8k → 17%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

NY
MA
PA
RI
CA
AZ
NM
DC
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 30 repeat orgs$229k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
31

Total granted

$1.1M
$206k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+22%

Still filing today

57%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyEducationCrime & LegalHuman ServicesOther

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

  • CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
    6× · 2020–2025 · $313k · revenue +55%
  • CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $93k · revenue +160%
  • UO
    University of Miami
    5× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • LC
    LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $48k · revenue +13%
  • FA
    FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC
    one grant, 2021 · $19k · revenue +19%
  • LA
    LOWE ART MUSEUM UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
    one grant, 2023 · $15k

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
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
4
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
Arts & Culture
5
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
6
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation

The lustgarten foundation is the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research in the world. see schedule o.the lustgarten foundation is boldly leading the way through hope and innovation, turning fear into action through education…

Human Services
7
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
8
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
9
The Paley Center for Media

Description of organization mission: the paley center for media is the premier institution dedicated to advancing the understanding of media-it's artistic value, social impact and historical importance-for the public and media…

Arts & Culture
10
Lung Cancer Research Foundation

The mission of the lung cancer research foundation is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.

Health
11
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Foundation
Philanthropy
12
San Francisco Opera Association

We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Princess Grace Foundation - Usa and the most unlike its peers is The Farrah Fawcett Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr16%5%5–10yr21%22%10–20yr18%22%20–35yr10%16%35–55yr11%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr16%2%5–10yr21%4%10–20yr18%11%20–35yr10%11%35–55yr11%73%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/41
the rest of the field
15%
13,646/90,878

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

38 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. 38 of the 67 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/38
Grantees still filing
30/38
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER PERFORMING ARTS — $92,000 · OtherRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER PERFORMING ARTSCONGREGATION EMANU-EL — $50,812 · OtherCONGREGATION EMANU-ELUNIVERSITY OF MIAMI LOWE ART MUSEUM — $45,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MIAMI LOWE ART MUSEUMPALM BEACH POLICE FIRE FOUNDATION — $34,510 · OtherPALM BEACH POLICE FIRE FOUNDATIONEL NIDO FAMILY CENTERS — $32,000 · OtherEL NIDO FAMILY CENTERSUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONAELLER COLLEGE MANAGEMENT — $32,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONAELLER COLLEGE MANAGEME…BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $30,000 · OtherWORLD FEDERATION OF BERGEN BELSEN ASSOCIATIONS INC — $24,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONAELLER COLLEGE MGMT — $21,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $20,000 · Other+28 more — $196,900 · Other+28 moreCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $312,500 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTERTOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $16,500 · Health+6 more — $40,300 · Health+6 moreRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $48,000 · Arts & CultureRAYMOND F KRAVI…LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $47,500 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN CENTER …PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC — $20,400 · Arts & CulturePEN AMERICAN CE…LIGHTHOUSE ARTCENTER INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureLIGHTHOUSE ARTC…GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC — $19,000 · Arts & CultureGEFFEN PLAYHOUS…FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC — $18,500 · Arts & CultureFILM AT LINCOLN…Creative Arts Workshops for Kids Inc — $12,500 · Arts & CultureCreative Arts W…BEAUX ARTS OF THE LOWE ART MUSEUM OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI INC — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $3,000 · Arts & CultureCHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE — $92,500 · EducationCHARLES R D…University of Miami — $60,000 · EducationUniversity …JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $120,000 · InternationalJEWISH NA…+1 more — $2,500 · InternationalPRINCESS GRACE FOUNDATION - USA — $49,500 · PhilanthropyTHE FARRAH FAWCETT FOUNDATION — $2,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $2,000 · PhilanthropyThe Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc — $22,000 · Crime & LegalNEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$578,222Health$369,300Arts & Culture$198,900Education$152,500International$122,500Philanthropy$53,500Crime & Legal$23,000

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 budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $312,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $120,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE — $92,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami — $60,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPRINCESS GRACE FOUNDATION - USA — $49,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $48,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $47,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEL NIDO FAMILY CENTERS — $32,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD FEDERATION OF BERGEN BELSEN ASSOCIATIONS INC — $24,000 over 6y, 18% of budgetThe Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc — $22,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC — $20,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE ARTCENTER INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC — $19,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC — $18,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME INCORPORATED — $16,900 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $16,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCreative Arts Workshops for Kids Inc — $12,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DAVID FOSTER FOUNDATION — $10,300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBEAUX ARTS OF THE LOWE ART MUSEUM OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE BUONICONTI FUND TO CURE PARALYSIS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND — $7,500 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetPALM BEACH AREA TENNIS PATRONS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetACKERMAN INSTITUTE FOR THE FAMILY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetADOPT FIRE STATION 71 — $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FARRAH FAWCETT FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCOA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN FUTURE INSTITUTE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTravis Manion Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION — $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 CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC
  • Who funds CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE
  • Who funds University of Miami
  • Who funds PRINCESS GRACE FOUNDATION - USA
  • Who funds RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC
  • Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC
  • Who funds EL NIDO FAMILY CENTERS
  • Who funds WORLD FEDERATION OF BERGEN BELSEN ASSOCIATIONS INC
  • Who funds The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc
  • Who funds PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC
  • Who funds LIGHTHOUSE ARTCENTER INC
  • Who funds GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC
  • Who funds FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME INCORPORATED
  • Who funds TOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Creative Arts Workshops for Kids Inc
  • Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THE DAVID FOSTER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BEAUX ARTS OF THE LOWE ART MUSEUM OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI INC
  • Who funds THE BUONICONTI FUND TO CURE PARALYSIS INC
  • Who funds HOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION

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 FundNY12× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 5%
  • University of Miami5% of income from government
  • Lighthouse Artcenter Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 67 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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