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Tom and Wendy Coleman Family Foundation at a glance

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Tom and Wendy Coleman Family 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.

$126k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$113kHealth$86kHuman Services$55kArts & Culture$37kHousing & Shelter$35kEducation$28kFood & Nutrition$25kAnimals$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $70k
$6,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST DAVID'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$20,000
FRANCISVALE HOME FOR SMALLER ANIMALS$10,000
CUSHINGS SUPPORT & RESEARCH FOUNDATION$10,000
NAMI INC$10,000
FAMILY PROMISE OF THE MAIN LINE$10,000
CHESTER COUNTY SUICIDE PREVENTION TASK FORCE$10,000
BRANDYWINE CONSERVANCY & MUSEUM OF ART$9,591
WILLISTOWN CONSERVATION TRUST$9,591
FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC$6,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$5,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$5,000
DAEMION CONSELING CENTER$5,000
PHILABUNDANCE$5,000
TREDYFFRIN & EASTTOWN CARES$2,500
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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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $6k → 8%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $3k → 8%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $3k → 8%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $3k → 8%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $3k → 8%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $3k → 8%DAEMION CONSELING CENTER: $5k → 6%DAEMION CONSELING CENTER: $3k → 6%DAEMION CONSELING CENTER: $3k → 6%DAEMION CONSELING CENTER: $3k → 6%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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$399k · 16 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
7

Total granted

$399k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+184%

Still filing today

81%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • NN
    NAMI National
    6× · 2020–2025 · $44k · revenue +274%
  • FP
    FAMILY PROMISE OF THE MAIN LINE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $35k · revenue +22%
  • Philabundance
    6× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • AR
    AMERICAN RED CROSS
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • YM
    YOUTH MENTORING PARTNERSHIPgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +60%
  • SC
    SATURATION CHURCH PLANTING
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
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
French and Pickering Creeks Conservation Trust Inc

To preserve, steward, and connect people to the land in northern chester county pennsylvania. see additional information on schedule o.french & pickering is recognized as a leader in regional land conservation, the organization is…

Environment
2
Central Pennsylvania Conservancy Inc

The mission of Central Pennsylvania Conservancy (CPC) is to acquire, preserve, and protect local land and natural resources in a five-county, South-Central PA region. Our vision is to create a local network of permanently protected and…

Environment
3
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society

Founded in 1827, the pennsylvania horticultural society (phs) uses horticulture to advance the health and well-being of the greater philadelphia region. (continued in sch o)phs's work focuses on four impact priorities: creating healthy…

Environment
4
Wrc Pennsylvania Memorial Home

Wrc pennsylvania memorial home's mission is to provide choices for generations. built on a not-for-profit foundation of caring, the organization offers residential and personal care, home and community-based services, skilled and…

Health
5
Philadelphia Health Partnership
Health
6
Chambersburg Hospital

The chambersburg hospital is a regional non-profit health care organization committed to the improvement of the health and well-being of the people in southcentral pennsylvania.

Health
7
Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution
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8
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…

Environment
9
Pennsylvania Field Trial Charitable
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10
Upmc Williamsport

UPMC Williamsport is a subsidiary of UPMC Susquehanna. The mission of UPMC Susquehanna and its subsidiaries is to serve the community by providing outstanding patient care and shaping tomorrow's health care through clinical and…

Health
11
Friends of the Rail Park

Friends of the rail park was founded to cultivate visions, advocate for, and ultimately manage a continous three-mile linear park and recreation path in philadelphia.

Environment
12
Chambersburg Health Services

Chambersburg health services is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing cancer treatment and developing and supporting medical centers for its wellspan tax-exempt affiliaties within franklin county, pennsylvania.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of the Main Line; the most unlike its peers is Gabrielle S Cerminaro Art Scholarship Foundation. 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

20 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. 20 of the 26 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST DAVIDS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $110,000 · OtherST DAVIDS EPISCOPAL CHURCHFAMILY PROMISE OF THE MAIN LINE: $35,000 · OtherFAMILY PROMISE OF THE MAIN LINETHE SALVATION ARMY: $26,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHESTER COUNTY SUICIDE PREVENTION PARTNERSHIP: $16,000 · OtherCHESTER COUNTY SUICIDE PREVENTION PARTNERSHIPBrandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art: $9,591 · Other+7 more: $18,000 · Other+7 moreNAMI National: $44,000 · HealthNAMI NationalCUSHING SUPPORT & RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $12,000 · HealthCUSHING SUPPOR…GABRIELLE S CERMINARO ART SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $26,000 · EducationGABRIELLE S C…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $17,500 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLE…WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES: $10,000 · EducationWILLIAMSON CO…FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM SE…DAEMION COUNSELING CENTER INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesDAEMION CO…TREDYFFRIN & EASTTOWN CARE: $7,500 · Human ServicesTREDYFFRIN…Philabundance: $25,000 · Food & NutritionWillistown Conservation Trust Inc: $9,591 · EnvironmentTHE APPLEFORD COMMITTEE: $1,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF HIGH SCHOOL PARK: $1,000 · EnvironmentFRANCISVALE HOME FOR SMALLER ANIMALS: $11,000 · Animals
Other$239,591Health$56,000Education$53,500Human Services$40,000Food & Nutrition$25,000Environment$11,591Animals$11,000

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 budgetNAMI National: $44,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF THE MAIN LINE: $35,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetGABRIELLE S CERMINARO ART SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $26,000 over 2y, 46% of budgetPhilabundance: $25,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $20,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY SUICIDE PREVENTION PARTNERSHIP: $16,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetDAEMION COUNSELING CENTER INC: $12,500 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetCUSHING SUPPORT & RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFRANCISVALE HOME FOR SMALLER ANIMALS: $11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWillistown Conservation Trust Inc: $9,591 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBrandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art: $9,591 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREDYFFRIN & EASTTOWN CARE: $7,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetYOUTH MENTORING PARTNERSHIP: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE APPLEFORD COMMITTEE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHISTORIC YELLOW SPRINGS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF HIGH SCHOOL PARK: $1,000 over 2y, 0.9% 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.

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 Philadelphia Foun…Chester County Commun…Hamilton Family Found…Connelly FoundationThe Pfizer Foundation…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Philadelphia FoundationPA17.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · Chester County Community Foundation · Hamilton Family Foundation · Connelly Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Tom and Wendy Coleman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tom and Wendy Coleman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%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
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Tom and Wendy Coleman Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Tom and Wendy Coleman Family Foundation 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 26 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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