California · Nonprofit
Coleman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth
Coleman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth (California) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,089,652 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($1,970,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 53
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $5.0M
What Coleman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth does
Mission
Coleman builds the leadership and power of low-income and working-class BIPOC children, youth, and families in San Francisco to advance racial and economic justice in our schools and our city.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Fiscally Sponsored Projects: The organization fiscally sponsored the Alliance for Educational Just AEJ, a national youth alliance. The second fiscal project is the SF Youth Commission, which works to give a voice to young people at city hall. The third project is Tower of Youth, which is focused on engaging Native American students and parents. The fourth project, the California Black Leadership Project, involves researching and collecting data. The last fiscal project, Budget Justice Coalition, is focused on advocating for nonprofit organizations. In addition, the organization supports the Coleman Action Fund for Children and Youth.
$840,475 spentof which $63,971 as grants34% of program spendingYouth Making a Change YMAC and Children Making a Change CMAC: Focused on building the leadership of our children and youth, especially those in middle and high school. The programs were focused on building skills and political education of youth, expanding the support services for youth, advocacy, and support to improve and expand SFUSD student engagement and policy advocacy. The advocacy included eliminating the criminalization of students, equity funding and policies, closing the opportunity gap, and dismantling the school-to-prison pipeline.
$743,978 spentof which $27,215 as grants30% of program spendingParents Making a Change PMAC: Focused on building the leadership of parents. The program was focused on building skills and political education of parents, advocacy, and support to improve and expand SFUSD family engagement and policy advocacy. The advocacy included eliminating the criminalization of students, equity funding and policies, closing the opportunity gap, and dismantling the school-to-prison pipeline.
$488,430 spentof which $16,117 as grants20% of program spendingStudents Making a Change SMAC: Focused on building the leadership of community college students. The program was focused on building skills, political education, and academic support. The advocacy included advancing equitable education policies and systems locally and statewide.
$369,616 spentof which $30,029 as grants15% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,442,499.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $3.5M to $5.2M (+49%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2019 11% · 2020 21% · 2021 12% · 2022 19% · 2023 9% · 2024 13% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of Coleman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $713k → $1.8M.
12 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Coleman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Coleman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
28% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Coleman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 24% · 2019 23% · 2020 16% · 2021 18% · 2022 27% · 2023 14% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
69% of Coleman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
58% of Coleman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Coleman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Coleman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Coleman Action Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Coleman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Coleman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth?
- Coleman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth (California) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,089,652 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($1,970,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Coleman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth have?
- IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $15,089,652 in grants to Coleman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Coleman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth?
- WK Kellogg Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,970,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Coleman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 53 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing