· Private foundation
The Gerrit and Amy Cole 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $170k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC | $30,000 |
| IRVINE BARCLAY THEATRE OPERATING CO | $25,000 |
| CHOC FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| BABY2BABY | $20,000 |
| PEDIATRIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| BACKHAUS DANCE | $10,000 |
| THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER | $10,000 |
| TOM COUGHLIN JAY FUND FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ALS UNITED GREATER NEW YORK INC | $10,000 |
| PACIFIC SYMPHONY | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE UCLA FOUNDATION | $4,790 |
| MAXS LOVE PROJECT INC | $3,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- PCPEDIATRIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2025 · $80k · revenue +50%
- TFTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC4× · 2022–2025 · $76k · revenue +339%
- IBIRVINE BARCLAY THEATRE OPERATING CO3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- AEARETE EDUCATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +171%
- AJAARON JUDGE ALL RISE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
- ECETHAN & CHOCOS BOOK CLUBone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -97%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.
Chcf is dedicated to advancing meaningful, measurable improvements in the way the health care delivery system provides care to the people of california, particularly those with low incomes and those whose needs are not well served by the…
The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Fund for Public Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ethan & Chocos Book Club. 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 39 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds PEDIATRIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds IRVINE BARCLAY THEATRE OPERATING CO ↗
- Who funds BACKHAUSDANCE ↗
- Who funds CHOC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BABY2BABY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TOM COUGHLIN JAY FUND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Pacific Symphony ↗
- Who funds THE PLAYERS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds ARETE EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALS UNITED GREATER NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AARON JUDGE ALL RISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ETHAN & CHOCOS BOOK CLUB ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAX S LOVE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organization The Gerrit and Amy Cole 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.
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 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.
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