· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $226k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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
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; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $313k · revenue +55%
CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE6× · 2020–2025 · $93k · revenue +160%- UOUniversity of Miami5× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- LCLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INCone grant, 2020 · $48k · revenue +13%
- FAFILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INCone grant, 2021 · $19k · revenue +19%
- LALOWE ART MUSEUM UNIVERSITY OF MIAMIone grant, 2023 · $15k
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.
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.
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How this is measured
38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Creative Arts Workshops for Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds THE DAVID FOSTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BUONICONTI FUND TO CURE PARALYSIS INC ↗
- Who funds BEAUX ARTS OF THE LOWE ART MUSEUM OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Coleman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Coleman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
- Lighthouse Artcenter Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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