· Private foundation
Alisann and Terry Collins 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $455k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $836k
- $250k+2 grants · $525k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST PATRICK'S EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL | $275,000 |
| GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $250,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $110,500 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $100,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| FAIR CHANCE | $100,000 |
| BUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER AT THE ARC | $75,000 |
| CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND | $75,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DENVER | $65,000 |
| RARE HOPE | $60,000 |
| ARC OF NORTHERN VA | $50,000 |
| YOUTH FOR TOMORROW | $50,000 |
| CHILDREN'S NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CHARLESTON HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $30,000 |
| NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART | $25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $789k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 35% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
100 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2025, 61 since wound down; 15 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $141k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TGThe George Washington University3× · 2017–2025 · $710k · revenue +30%
- YFYOUTH FOR TOMORROW-NEW LIFE CENTER INC8× · 2017–2025 · $315k · revenue +130%
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $300k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- SPST PETER'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +12%
- BJBISHOP JOHN T WALKER SCHOOL FOR BOYSone grant, 2020 · $50k
- WSWASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLSone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Organization's mission to improve health outcomes for children; be a leader in creating innovative solutions to pediatric healthcare problems; and excel in care, advocacy, research. as the nation's children's hospital, the mission of…
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Knock Out Abuse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
129 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 129 of the 175 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
- Who funds FAIR CHANCE ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FOR TOMORROW-NEW LIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Kiawah Island Natural Habitat Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RARE Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds BUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds Charleston Habitat for Humanity Inc ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE FIELD SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds Washington Winter Show Inc ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN MINISTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE WASHINGTON BALLET ↗
- Who funds INTOWN PLAYGROUP INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds TRISOMY 18 SUPPORT INC DBA TRISOMY 18 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Brother Wolf Animal Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds SURVIVORS AND ADVOCATES FOR EMPOWERMENT INC ↗
- Who funds MY SISTER'S PLACE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · United Way of the National Capital Area · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · World Bank Community Connections Fund · Sidgmore Family Foundation · Corina Higginson Trust Co Laura Ford Trustee · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · The Rockefeller Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Alisann and Terry Collins Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- National Park Trust Inc — 51% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture Inc — 5% of income from government
- Upstream Usa Inc — 4% of income from government
- Comfort Cases Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.