· Private foundation
The Sylvan C Coleman Foundation
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.
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 $10k12 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $225k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Womens Cancer Resource Center | $30,000 |
| Middlebury College | $25,000 |
| Hartford Hospital Foundation | $20,000 |
| George Mark Children's House | $20,000 |
| Planned Parenthood | $15,000 |
| Connecticut Foodshare | $15,000 |
| Commonwealth | $15,000 |
| Connecticut Childrens Medical Cente | $15,000 |
| Center for Reproductive Rights | $10,000 |
| The Town That Cares | $10,000 |
| James Beard Foundation | $10,000 |
| Gifts of Love | $10,000 |
| Hands On Hartford | $10,000 |
| Renbrook School | $10,000 |
| Charlotte Maxwell Clinic | $10,000 |
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, $193k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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 +45% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
49 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 9 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $97k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WCWomens Cancer Resource Center3× · 2019–2024 · $80k · revenue +23%
THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC6× · 2019–2024 · $60k · revenue +53%
COMMONWEAL6× · 2019–2024 · $55k · revenue +129%
Funded once
- CACAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +13%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $7k
- UNUCONN Neag School of Educationone grant, 2020 · $4k
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.
We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Project Open Hand's mission is to improve health outcomes and quality of life by providing nutritious meals to the sick and vulnerable, caring for and educating our community.
Public health institute generates and promotes research, leadership and partnerships to build capacity for strong public health policy, programs, systems and practices.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
Women in global health (wgh) is a global movement and organization that brings together all genders and backgrounds to achieve gender equality in global health leadership.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
How this is measured
48 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. 48 of the 67 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
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.
- Who funds Womens Cancer Resource Center ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMONWEAL ↗
- Who funds ALIVE Inc ↗
- Who funds ACCESS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC ↗
- Who funds Charlotte Maxwell Clinic ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF ALAMEDA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA POINT COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds BREAST CANCER ACTION ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF RUTH ↗
- Who funds DANCE PLACE ↗
- Who funds GIFTS OF LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds FORGE CITY WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Guttmacher Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds HANDS ON HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds George Mark Childrens Fund ↗
- Who funds THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds A SAFE PLACE ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD RUNNERS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BREAST CANCER COALITION ↗
- Who funds National Women's Health Network ↗
- Who funds RENBROOK SCHOOL INC ↗
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: The Clarence B Coleman and Joan F Coleman Charitable Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · McNabb Foundation · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · The California Wellness Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Auerbach Schiro Foundation · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · Sbm Charitable Foundation Inc · The William G Irwin Charity Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Sylvan C Coleman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sylvan C Coleman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Chrysalis Center Inc: 93% of income from government
- Hands On Hartford Inc: 20% of income from government
- New Britain Museum of American Art Inc: 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: 5% of income from government
- Connecticut Children's Medical Center: 5% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
- Forge City Works Inc: 1% of income from government
- National Dance Education Organization: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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