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The Coleman Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $107k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TROY STATE UNIVERSITY | $106,667 |
| HOUSTON ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| GO FORWARD CAMPAIGN | $15,000 |
| SOUTHEAST ALABAMA COMMUNITY THEATRE | $5,000 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| EAST GEORGIA STATE COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WEST GEORGIA | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF LAS VEGAS | $2,000 |
| OAKLAND CITY UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| WALLACE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| MOTLOW COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS IN DALLAS | $2,000 |
| LEADERSHIP ALABAMA | $1,350 |
| INDIAN SPRINGS BOARDING SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| BOYS SCOUTS 84-8592900 | $900 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TUTROY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2022 · $269k · revenue +48%
- ASALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL2× · 2017–2019 · $38k · revenue +19%
- WCWIREGRASS CHILDREN'S HOME INC6× · 2017–2022 · $14k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2018 · $63k · revenue -100%
- WAWreaths Across Americaone grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +6%
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETESone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +19%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Waynesburg university educates students to make connections between faith, learning and serving so they might faithfully transofrm their communiities and the world. see continuation on schedule o.as a christian comprehensive university, we…
The university foundation is organized to assist and aid the board of trustees of the university of alabama in fulfilling its educational, research, and public service programs and activities.
Ouachita baptist university is a christ-centered learning community. embracing the liberal arts tradition, the university prepares individuals for ongoing intellectual and spiritual growth, lives of meaningful work, and reasoned engagement…
As a christian liberal arts university, milligan university seeks to honor god by educating men and women to be servant-leaders.
Belhaven university prepares students academically and spiritually to serve jesus christ in their careers, in human relationships, and in the world of ideas.
Heritage Christian University equips servants through undergraduate and graduate and continuing education. HCU produces effective communicators, preachers, teachers and missionaries for real world ministry with a focus on evangelism and a…
To support the university of north alabama in its educational endeavors.
The foundation is a not-for-profit corporation that assists wallace state community college, a public institution of higher education, in fulfilling and performing its educational purposes
To facilitate the collection of donations for capital outlay, equipment, scholarships and programs at wiregrass georgia technical college.
The mission of Toccoa Falls College is to glorify God through seeking and developing Christian servant leaders who will impact their world with the love and message of Jesus Christ.
The College is an institution of higher education and provides instruction and various support services in achieving its purpose.
The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leadership Alabama Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dothan Area Chamber of Commerce. 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.
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 45 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
30 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. 30 of the 114 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 TROY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds WIREGRASS UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds WIREGRASS CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Wreaths Across America ↗
- Who funds DOTHAN BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOUSE OF RUTH INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL MOVING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN UNION STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE F ↗
- Who funds Oakland City University ↗
- Who funds WIREGRASS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds CITRUS COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Wiregrass Foundation · The Paul & Barbara Flowers Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The George & Laura Flowers Foundation · Heersink Family Foundation · Robert and Carol Flowers Foundation · Alfa Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · William & Carroll Flowers Foundation · Dove Family Foundation · Bruce G Cochener 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.
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.
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