Colton Family Foundation

• The foundation accepts no unsolicited requests and gives only to organisations it has preselected, so a small charity that has not already been chosen should not send it a request; the filing gives no further criteria for that selection.
• If your work fits its listed themes of arts, land conservation, Jewish causes, higher education, youth development or medical research, it is worth knowing about it, but no geographic focus is stated, so location alone is no reason to rule yourself in or out.
• Most of its grants are modest: half of its 118 grants to organisations were $5,000 or less and the median was $5,000, so a request of about that size fits its usual pattern, though the band in which about 8 in 10 grants fall ($280 to $310,000) is typical rather than the full range, since its largest grant was about $12,500,000.
• Repeat giving is heavy, with 99% of grant dollars to organisations going to ones it had also funded in the earlier filings, which suggests its giving is largely to established grantees.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• University of Pennsylvania · Unrestricted
  $8,333,0002024 tax year
• American Friends of Tel Aviv University · Unrestricted
  $1,160,0002024 tax year
• New Jersey Symphony Orchestra · Unrestricted
  $300,1002024 tax year
• New Jersey Performing Arts Center · Unrestricted
  $217,2502024 tax year
• New York Philharmonic · Unrestricted
  $98,2322024 tax year
• Allicance For Decision Education · Unrestricted
  $40,0002024 tax year
• Feeding America · Unrestricted
  $22,0002024 tax year
• Boston Symphony Orchestra · Unrestricted
  $11,1442024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.