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The Edward Colston Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$828k
Granted FY2024still arriving
59
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$924kEducation$880kInternational$766kEnvironment$485kHuman Services$437kPublic Safety & Disaster$330kFood & Nutrition$285kHousing & Shelter$225kOther$0
02FY2024 · 59 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k20 grants · $84k
  • $10k–50k38 grants · $684k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$10,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF HAITI IN NY$60,000
GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER$40,000
MERCY CARE FOUNDATION$40,000
EARTH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$37,360
CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES$35,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$35,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$30,000
SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION$30,000
CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA$30,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC$30,000
SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER$25,000
CRISTO REY ATLANTA JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL$25,000
FOOD FOR THE POOR$25,000
MARSHVIEW COMMUNITY ORGANIC FARM$15,000
REACH FOR EXCELLENCE$15,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $203k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%COVENANT HOUSE: $5k → 17%ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $18k → 14%TRUE NORTH TREKS: $10k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE: $5k → 17%ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $15k → 14%TRUE NORTH TREKS: $5k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE: $5k → 17%ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $13k → 14%ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $13k → 14%ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $10k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE: $5k → 17%ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $10k → 14%ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $10k → 14%ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $10k → 14%FAMILIES FIRST INC: $5k → 13%FAMILIES FIRST: $5k → 13%FAMILIES FIRST: $5k → 13%FAMILIES FIRST INC: $5k → 13%FAMILIES FIRST INC: $5k → 13%FAMILIES FIRST: $5k → 13%FAMILIES FIRST INC: $5k → 13%FAMILIES FIRST: $5k → 13%ATLANTA MISSION: $8k → 13%ATLANTA MISSION: $8k → 13%ATLANTA MISSION: $5k → 13%ATLANTA MISSION: $5k → 13%CROSSROADS COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $5k → 13%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

ME
WA
MT
IL
NY
OR
OH
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.3M · 62 repeat orgs$337k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

62 repeat relationships: 46 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
16

Total granted

$4.3M
$212k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+25%

Still filing today

58%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthInternationalEducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterEnvironmentOther
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

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $220k · revenue +98%
  • TG
    THE GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $220k · revenue +61%
  • SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $195k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF HAITI
    one grant, 2021 · $38k
  • ND
    NOTRE DAME ACADEMY INC
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • OL
    OUR LADY OF THE ASSUMPTION SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
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
Ascension Health Global Mission

Rooted in the loving ministry of Jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. Our Catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually centered, holistic care,…

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2
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
3
Augusta Health Care Inc

The mission of augusta health is to strengthen the health and well-being of all people in our communities.

Health
4
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
5
Nuvance Health

Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.

Health
6
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
7
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
8
Counterpart International Inc

For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…

International
9
Corus International Inc

TO MANAGE AN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, HEALTH, AND RELIEF FOCUSED FAMILY OF ORGANIZATIONS HELPING PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES LIFT THEMSELVES OUT OF POVERTY, SUPPORT WELL-BEING OF INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES, AND PROVIDE…

Human Services
10
Christel House International Inc

Chi prepares graduates of the christel house schools operated by its affiliated entities, which chi funds and oversees, to achieve upward economic mobility, demonstrate good citizenship, and become empowered to identify and realize their…

International
11
Clinton Health Access Initiative Inc

For over 20 years, chai's mission has been to save lives and improve health outcomes in low-and middle-income countries around the world. we do this by enabling the government and private sector to strengthen and sustain quality health…

International
12
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation; the most unlike its peers is South River Watershed Alliance. 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

56 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. 56 of the 94 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/56
Grantees still filing
36/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF HAITI IN NY: $263,300 · OtherFRIENDS OF HAITI IN NYCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES: $220,000 · OtherCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICESSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $195,000 · OtherSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTERRED EARTH RISING: $170,000 · OtherRED EARTH RISINGCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA: $160,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTATHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $115,000 · OtherCRISTO REY ATLANTA HIGH SCHOOL: $100,000 · OtherGORDON COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherCRISTO REY ATLANTA JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL INC: $100,000 · OtherATLANTA YOUTH ACADEMY: $86,000 · Other+48 more: $1,023,568 · Other+48 moreEARTH University Foundation Inc: $232,360 · InternationalEARTH University Fou…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $220,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTI…FOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $165,000 · InternationalFOOD FOR THE POOR IN…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $90,000 · InternationalHABITAT FOR HUMANITY…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $90,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHE…COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $50,000 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSI…+2 more: $35,000 · InternationalMERCY CARE FOUNDATION INC: $245,000 · HealthMERCY CARE FOUND…THE GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC: $220,000 · HealthTHE GOOD SAMARIT…PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $90,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEAL…SHEPHERD CENTER INC: $70,000 · HealthSHEPHERD CENTER …CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $30,000 · HealthEAGLE RANCH INC: $27,500 · Health+4 more: $30,000 · HealthSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL GEORGIA INC: $97,500 · Human ServicesFAMILIES FIRST INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION: $25,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE: $20,000 · Human ServicesTrue North Treks NFP: $15,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesREACH FOR EXCELLENCE INC: $90,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationCITRUS COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationCHURCHILL SCHOOL AND CENTER: $25,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $9,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $8,000 · EducationSustainable Harvest International: $80,000 · EnvironmentSPRING ISLAND TRUST: $70,000 · EnvironmentCIVIC GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI: $10,000 · EnvironmentSHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $110,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL GEORGIA INC: $15,000 · Philanthropy
Other$2,532,868International$882,360Health$712,500Human Services$202,500Education$197,000Environment$160,000Philanthropy$125,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMERCY CARE FOUNDATION INC: $245,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetEARTH University Foundation Inc: $232,360 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $220,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC: $220,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $195,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $165,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $115,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $110,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL GEORGIA INC: $97,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetREACH FOR EXCELLENCE INC: $90,000 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $90,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $90,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSustainable Harvest International: $80,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetSPRING ISLAND TRUST: $70,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetSHEPHERD CENTER INC: $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY IN ATLANTA INC: $70,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE MONARCH: $42,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILIES FIRST INC: $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAGLE RANCH INC: $27,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCITRUS COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMARSHVIEW COMMUNITY ORGANIC FARM: $25,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetBUCKHEAD CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCHURCHILL SCHOOL AND CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREBUILD LAMAR INC: $25,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetCOBB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSouth River Watershed Alliance: $20,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Extension Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBELOVED ASHEVILLE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL GEORGIA INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTrue North Treks NFP: $15,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAERIAL RECOVERY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CAJUN NAVY RELIEF INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION AIRDROP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCIVIC GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetASCENSA HEALTH INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $10,000 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.

  • Who funds MERCY CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds EARTH University Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL GEORGIA INC ↗
  • Who funds REACH FOR EXCELLENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds Sustainable Harvest International ↗
  • Who funds SPRING ISLAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY IN ATLANTA INC ↗
  • Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
  • Who funds BLUE MONARCH ↗
  • Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILIES FIRST INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗

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 Community Foundat…Georgia Power Foundat…United Way of Greater…The Waterfall Foundat…Tr Uw Charles I BrananThe Imlay Foundation …Raymond James Charita…Tr Lois & Lucy Lampki…Jesse Parker Williams…The Zeist Foundation …Tuw Thomas H PittsRyan Ida Alice Tuw Ma…
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA25.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Tr Lois & Lucy Lampkin Fdn Ua · Jesse Parker Williams Foundation Inc · The Zeist Foundation Inc · Tuw Thomas H Pitts · Ryan Ida Alice Tuw Main

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 Edward Colston Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Edward Colston Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.
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How do I get to The Edward Colston Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Edward Colston Foundation Inc 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 94 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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