· Private foundation
The Thomas B and Robertha K Coleman Foundation Inc
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRADHAM'S LEGACY | $135,000 |
| CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $20,000 |
| TRYON PALACE HISTORIC SITES & GARDE | $11,000 |
| CHATHAM HALL | $5,000 |
| PUBLIC RADIO EAST | $5,000 |
| RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY SERVICES | $3,000 |
| CRAVEN COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| ECU FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| NC AQUARIUM SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| COLONIAL CAPITAL HUMANE SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| WESTERN CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATI | $2,000 |
| TRIED BY FIRE | $1,000 |
| ATLANTIC DANCE THEATRE | $1,000 |
| NC COASTAL FEDERATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% 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 +44% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
32 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 12 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CHCHATHAM HALL9× · 2017–2025 · $92k · revenue +25%
- CCCOLONIAL CAPITAL HUMANE SOCIETY6× · 2019–2025 · $30k · revenue +118%
- TBTRIED BY FIRE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- GGGIVE GROW FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $5k
- FMFRESH MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +10%
- FBFIRST BAPTIST CH-BAPTIST MEN-HURRICone grant, 2018 · $2k
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.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
The organization is a proactive, nonpartisan business advocacy organization. the organization works in the legislative, regulatory and political arenas to proactively drive positive change to ensure that north carolina is a leading place…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The north carolina bar association is organized for the purposes of promoting and improving the administration of justice in north carolina; fostering and encouraging law reform when in the public interest; advancing the science of…
The charlotte regional realtor (r) association (crra) is a trade association serving members in mecklenburg, iredell and haywood counties. at december 31, 2024, crra had 14,020 members.
Facilitate networking among hospitals
The nc state alumni association engages alumni and friends through programs and services that foster pride and enhance a lifelong connection to nc state university ("nc state").
Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.
The mission of the bladen county hospital foundation is to serve the community by building awareness and philanthropic support for bladen county hospital as it provides compassionate, quality healthcare for all its patients.
To aid and promote, by financial assistance and otherwise, educational, research, and extension in the college of engineering at north carolina state university
To promote education and research in the college of natural resources of north carolina state university as well as aid and promote, by financial assistance and otherwise, all types of education, research and extension in the college of…
How this is measured
39 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. 39 of the 82 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.
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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: North Carolina Community Foundation · The Harold H Bate Foundation Inc · Anonymous Trust U/A Dated 2-4-2008 · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Robert L Mattocks II and Carol J Mattocks Charitable Trust · The Winston-Salem Foundation · International Paper Company Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Carolinaeast Foundation · The Bancker Williams Foundation Inc · The Robert P Holding Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Thomas B and Robertha K Coleman Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Thomas B and Robertha K Coleman Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
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