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The Thomas and Bebette Coleman Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Thomas and Bebette 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.

$295k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$337kEducation$310kArts & Culture$82kReligion$67kCrime & Legal$45kAnimals$17kRecreation & Sports$5kHuman Services$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Ramona Convent Secondary School$100,000
USC ARCADIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$100,000
CASA$25,000
JUDAISM BY CHOICE$20,000
THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY$20,000
HUNTINGTON MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITU$10,000
PASADENA HUMANE SOCIETY$10,000
SHIUR$10,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY: $20k → 14%FRIENDS OF LAKE OSWEGO BASEBALL: $5k → 8%ST JUDES CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITA: $2k → 17%DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS: $1k → 10%THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY: $12k → 14%NLWL NEIGHBORS FOR A LIVEABLE WEST: $1k → 8%THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY: $10k → 14%THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY: $10k → 14%THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY: $10k → 14%USC ARCADIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY: $10k → 14%USC ARCADIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY: $10k → 14%USC ARCADIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%HUNTINGTON MEMORIAL RESEARCH INTTIT: $25k → 14%HUNTINGTON MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITU: $10k → 14%PASADENA HUMANE SOCIETY: $10k → 14%HUNTINGTON MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITU: $10k → 14%HUNTINGTON MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITU: $10k → 14%PASADENA HUMANE SOCIETY: $7k → 14%Ramona Convent Secondary School: $100k → 14%Ramona Convent Secondary School: $50k → 14%Ramona Convent Secondary School: $50k → 14%Ramona Convent Secondary School: $30k → 14%Ramona Convent Secondary School: $25k → 14%Ramona Convent Secondary School: $15k → 14%Ramona Convent Secondary School: $10k → 14%ST RITAS CATHOLIC PARISH: $10k → 14%JUDAISM BY CHOICE: $22k → 14%JUDAISM BY CHOICE: $20k → 14%SHIUR: $10k → 14%ST FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOL: $25k → 14%ST FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOL: $5k → 14%CASA: $25k → 14%CASA: $20k → 14%Casa De Las Amigas: $10k → 14%Casa De Las Amigas: $10k → 14%Casa De Las Amigas: $10k → 14%Casa De Las Amigas: $10k → 14%Casa De Las Amigas: $5k → 14%SACRED HEART RETREAT HOUSE: $5k → 14%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.
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.
$806k · 9 repeat orgs$59k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
7

Total granted

$806k
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+50%

Still filing today

56%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
HealthArts & CultureReligionAnimalsOther
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

  • UA
    USC ARCADIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2024 · $235k · revenue +36%
  • HE
    HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $82k · revenue +99%
  • CT
    CASA TREATMENT CENTER
    5× · 2017–2021 · $45k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • HM
    HUNTINGTON MEMORIAL RESEARCH INTTIT
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • SR
    ST RITAS CATHOLIC PARISH
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF LAKE OSWEGO BASEBALL
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
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
Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd

Huntington Health stands for community. We stand for compassion. But more than anything, Huntington stands for health. Providing world-class health care is our specialty, and it's what we've been doing for the San Gabriel Valley since…

Health
2
Usc Arcadia Hospital

To provide high-quality healing services while caring for the patient's emotional and spiritual needs and enabling them to achieve health for life.

Health
3
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
4
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
5
Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc

Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…

Community Improvement
6
Fresno Community Hospital and Medical Center

Fresno community hospital and medical center's (fch&mc's) exists to better the lives of all those we serve

Health
7
Calvary Hospital Inc

The mission of calvary hospital is to care for the medical, emotional and spiritual needs of our adult patients with advanced cancer and other life-limiting illnesses. it is the only fully accredited acute care hospital in the u.s. devoted…

Health
8
Holy Cross Hospital Inc

We, holy cross hospital and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. holy cross hospital is a member of trinity health.

Health
9
Saint Agnes Medical Center

We, saint agnes medical center and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. saint agnes medical center is a member of trinity health.

Health
10
Acadia General Hospital Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
11
Ucsf Health Community Hospitals Fka Saint Francis Memorial Hospital

Ucsf health community hospital's mission statement is caring, healing, teaching, and discovering.

Health
12
Sutter Valley Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sacred Heart Retreat House Inc; the most unlike its peers is Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery. 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

8 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. 8 of the 17 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RAMONA CONVENT SECONDARY SCHOOL: $279,700 · OtherRAMONA CONVENT SECONDARY SCHOOLCASA: $45,000 · OtherCASAST FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOL: $30,000 · OtherST FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOLHUNTINGTON MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITU: $30,000 · OtherHUNTINGTON MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUHUNTINGTON MEMORIAL RESEARCH INTTIT: $25,000 · OtherHUNTINGTON MEMORIAL RESEARCH INTTIT+6 more: $32,000 · Other+6 moreUSC ARCADIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $235,000 · HealthUSC ARCADIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONCASA TREATMENT CENTER: $45,000 · HealthCASA TREATMENT CENTER+1 more: $2,000 · HealthHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $82,000 · Arts & CultureHENRY E HU…JUDAISM BY CHOICE INC: $42,000 · ReligionPASADENA HUMANE: $17,000 · Animals
Other$441,700Health$282,000Arts & Culture$82,000Religion$42,000Animals$17,000

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 budgetUSC ARCADIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $235,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $82,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCASA TREATMENT CENTER: $45,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetJUDAISM BY CHOICE INC: $42,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetPASADENA HUMANE: $17,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSACRED HEART RETREAT HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDisabled American Veterans: $1,000 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 USC ARCADIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY ↗
  • Who funds CASA TREATMENT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds JUDAISM BY CHOICE INC ↗
  • Who funds PASADENA HUMANE ↗
  • Who funds SACRED HEART RETREAT HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Disabled American Veterans ↗

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Thomas and Bebette Coleman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Thomas and Bebette Coleman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 17 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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