· Private foundation
The Coleman Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WEST GEORGIA | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF LAS VEGAS | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS IN DALLAS | $2,000 |
| EAST GEORGIA STATE COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| MOTLOW COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| OAKLAND CITY UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| WALLACE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| LEADERSHIP ALABAMA | $1,350 |
| INDIAN SPRINGS BOARDING SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| BOYS SCOUTS 84-8592900 | $900 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of its 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 +26% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TUTROY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2022 · $269k · revenue +44%
- 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%
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.
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."
How this is measured
31 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. 31 of the 114 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 TROY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds WIREGRASS UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST EDUCATION INC ↗
- 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 Oakland City University ↗
- Who funds CITRUS COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL MOVING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN UNION STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE F ↗
- Who funds CULTURAL ARTS CENTER INC ↗
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: 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
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.
How this is measured
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