· Private foundation
The Coleman Foundation Inc
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, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k33 grants · $105k
- $10k–50k54 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k96 grants · $7.3M
- $250k+2 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Chicago Community Foundation | $250,000 |
| South Side Healthy Community Organization | $250,000 |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | $200,000 |
| Growing Season-Illinois Inc | $200,000 |
| Saint Anthony Hospital | $150,000 |
| University of Chicago | $130,000 |
| Little City Foundation | $125,000 |
| West Side Forward | $125,000 |
| Chicago Urban League | $125,000 |
| Matching Gifts - Details available upon request | $116,508 |
| Growing Season-Illinois Inc | $100,000 |
| Foundation of Little Village | $100,000 |
| Puerto Rican Cultural Center | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| Greater Southwest Development Corporation | $100,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $12.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% 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 +48% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
187 repeat relationships: 106 still active in FY2024, 81 since wound down; 48 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCLEARBROOK6× · 2019–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +74%
- UOUniversity of Chicago Medical Center5× · 2019–2023 · $1.8M · revenue +72%
Northwestern University3× · 2019–2021 · $1.4M · revenue +34%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INCone grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue -50%
- ASAccion Serving Illinois & Indianaone grant, 2020 · $225k
- WWWellness West Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $178k · revenue +77%
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.
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.
The aids foundation of chicago mobilizes communities to create equity and justice for people living with and vulnerable to hiv and related chronic disease.
Provide community-based residential housing to adults with autism and/or severe developmental disabilities. also provide developmental training and other supports to this same population.
At legal aid chicago, we work together to provide high quality civil legal aid to people living in poverty and other vulnerable groups.through advocacy, education, collaboration, and litigation we empower individuals, protect fundamental…
The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.
Chicago family health center will promote health, work to prevent disease and provide treatment through the delivery of quality, accessible primary healtcare that is culturally sensitive, affordable, and responsive to community and…
The chicago children's advocacy center unites public, private, and community partners to ensure the safety, health, and well-being of abused children.
How this is measured
265 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 265 of the 320 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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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: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Forefront · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Chicago Foundation for Women · Lloyd a Fry Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Coleman Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Coleman Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Intersection of Change Inc: 20% of income from government
- The University of Tampa Incorporated: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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