How much did THE COLLEY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

Education$897kHuman Services$166kInternational$25kPhilanthropy$15kEnvironment$11kEmployment$6kHealth$5kYouth Development$3kRecreation & Sports$500Other$285k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

youth

2019

—

2020

—

2021

education

2022

—

2023

—

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k9 grants · $30k
$10k–50k2 grants · $21k
$50k–250k2 grants · $118k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.0M

Total assets

Largest grants

UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL$60,000
SAN FRANCISCO DAY SCHOOL$57,500
GATEWAY PUBLIC SCHOOLS$11,000
SAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
CALIFORNIA PROJECT PARTNERS$5,000
HOMELESS PRENATAL PROGRAM$5,000
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY$5,000
WIDE HORIZONS$5,000
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY$2,500
BOOKER T WASHINGTON$2,500
NATIONAL COMMODORE CLUB$2,500
UNF FOUNDATION INC$1,000
SUMMER SEARCH BAY AREA$1,000

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $166k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18% — the area typically sits at 12%. 99% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.3M · 21 repeat orgs$149k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +64% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.3M

$126k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%

+23%

Still filing today

67%

23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesInternationalYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther

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

SAN FRANCISCO DAY SCHOOL
8× · 2017–2024 · $466k · revenue +45%
GP
GATEWAY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
8× · 2017–2024 · $175k · revenue +64%
SF
SAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL
3× · 2022–2024 · $170k · revenue +38%

Funded once

SC
STORY CORPS
one grant, 2022 · $25k
VU
VANDERBUILT UNIV
one grant, 2020 · $23k
SY
SCHOOL YEAR ABROAD
one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -5%

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.

San Francisco Friends School

Educating, inspiring, & nurturing girls & boys in the tradition of quaker learning.

Education

San Francisco State University

To provide private financial support to assist the university in meeting its educational mission.

Education

Menlo School

Establish and operate as an educational institution for the education of young men and women.

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University of California

To raise and manage private funds to support uci's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service.

Education

Silicon Schools Fund Inc

Support the launch of excellent new schools and innovative practices that improve education.

Education

Pacific East Quality Education

YCIS Silicon Valley is a welcoming school community where all children from preschool through grade 8 are encouraged to find and follow their gifts as they learn in both Chinese and English. Our goal:to help our students become…

Education

Silicon Valley International School

To educate students through a rigorous, dynamic, and bilingual program.

—

San Francisco Girls' School

to educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.

—

San Francisco Challenge

Recreation & Sports

San Francisco Coalition of Essential

The Mission of SF-CESS is to interrupt and transform current and systemic educational inequities to ensure all students have access to personalized, equitable and high performing schools that believe and demonstrate each student can,…

Education

Bay Area Hybrid College Initiative

Rivet School's mission is to build and scale a new model of higher education that reliably enables traditionally underserved students to earn an affordable bachelor's degree in as little as two years, leading to a great first job and…

Education

Seattle Pacific University

Seattle Pacific University is a Christian university fully committed to engaging the culture and changing the world by graduating people of competence and character, becoming people of wisdom, and modeling grace-filled community.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco University High School and the most unlike its peers is Tides Center. 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 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

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 — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

4%1/26

the rest of the field

12%

22,290/186,952

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.

05the grantee network

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

24/26

Grantees still filing

23/26

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$896,813Other$293,746Human Services$166,000International$24,856Philanthropy$15,250Environment$11,000Employment$6,000

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.

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.

The San Francisco FoundationCA20.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Robert and Dana Emery Family Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San · Tides Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc

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 organisation THE COLLEY 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

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LOVE FOR ETHIOPIA.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 6.6× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 270426781 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on LOVE FOR ETHIOPIA, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 23% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Colley Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Colley Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE COLLEY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Colley Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE COLLEY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Colley Foundation?

More from the funding graph