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The Colley 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.

$82k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$52k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.3MArts & Culture$33kInternational$30kHealth$24kHuman Services$22kCivil Rights$21kPhilanthropy$16kEnvironment$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $24k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
$12,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL$51,500
Individual grant recipient$12,095
SAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL$12,000
ONEJAX$3,000
STORY CORPS$2,500
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $171k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%WIDE HORIZONS: $5k → 12%WIDE HORIZONS: $5k → 12%WIDE HORIZON: $5k → 12%MATRICULATE: $25k → 17%MATRICULATE: $25k → 20%WIDE HORIZONS: $5k → 12%MATRICULATE: $25k → 17%MATRICULATE: $25k → 20%MATRICULATE: $25k → 20%MATRICULATE: $25k → 17%TIDES CENTER: $1k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
IN
CA
CO
TN
NC
DC
LA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 20 repeat orgs$117k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
33

Total granted

$1.4M
$102k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+19%

Still filing today

80%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationInternationalCivil RightsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 +69%
  • GP
    GATEWAY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $175k · revenue +70%
  • Vanderbilt University
    5× · 2017–2024 · $95k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • TP
    TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +18%
  • SY
    SCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -3%
  • BU
    BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +113%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
2
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
3
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
4
San Francisco Friends School

At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…

Education
5
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
6
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
7
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
8
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
9
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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10
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
11
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
12
The San Francisco School

A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco University High School; the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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 58 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/38
Grantees still filing
25/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAN FRANCISCO DAY SCHOOL: $466,358 · EducationSAN FRANCISCO DAY SCHOOLSAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL: $182,000 · EducationSAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOLGATEWAY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $174,955 · EducationGATEWAY PUBLIC SCHOOLSVanderbilt University: $95,000 · EducationVanderbilt University+7 more: $35,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL: $112,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY HIGH SCHO…SAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HS: $42,500 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO UNIVER…Individual grant recipient: $12,095 · OtherBREAKTHROUGH: $10,000 · OtherTHE LITTLE SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherBREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 · OtherColorado Outdoor Education Center Inc: $10,250 · Other+24 more: $61,981 · Other+24 moreMATRICULATE INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesMATRICULATE …Wide Horizons Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesWide Horizon…+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesLOVE FOR ETHIOPIA INC: $12,856 · InternationalSCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC: $10,000 · InternationalTHE BRIGHTON JONES RICHER LIFE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $2,000 · InternationalSTORYCORPS INC: $27,500 · Arts & CultureCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $1,000 · Arts & CultureCentral Valley Community Foundation A Corporation: $15,000 · PhilanthropyTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $10,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $250 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Civil RightsGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $5,000 · Civil RightsONEJAX INC: $3,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $515 · Civil Rights
Education$953,313Other$269,326Human Services$171,000International$29,856Arts & Culture$28,500Philanthropy$25,250Civil Rights$18,515

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAN FRANCISCO DAY SCHOOL: $466,358 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL: $182,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGATEWAY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $174,955 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMATRICULATE INC: $150,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetVanderbilt University: $95,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTORYCORPS INC: $27,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWide Horizons Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 8.7% of budgetCentral Valley Community Foundation A Corporation: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOVE FOR ETHIOPIA INC: $12,856 over 4y, 23% of budgetColorado Outdoor Education Center Inc: $10,250 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LITTLE SCHOOL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSan Francisco Achievers: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BRIGHTON JONES RICHER LIFE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHomeless Prenatal Program Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLibrary Foundation of Jacksonville Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetYOUTH SPEAKS INC: $3,015 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetONEJAX INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFordham University: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE & SOUND: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELLA BAKER CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: $515 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENTERPRISE FOR YOUTH: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERY MOTHER COUNTS: $53 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The San Francisco Fou…Silicon Valley Commun…East Bay Community Fo…Marin Community Found…Robert and Dana Emery…ImpactassetsincBright Funds Foundati…Jewish Community Fede…Rockefeller Philanthr…Tides FoundationThe Chicago Community…National Philanthropi…
The San Francisco FoundationCA17.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Colley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Colley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Colley Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Colley Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 58 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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