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Arthur D Collins Jr Foundation at a glance

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Arthur D Collins Jr Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$406k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$225k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.3MArts & Culture$1.0MHealth$84kEnvironment$41kCrime & Legal$12kRecreation & Sports$6kFood & Nutrition$1kScience & Tech$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $350k
$1,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WELLESLEY COLLEGE$224,842
Individual grant recipient$125,000
DARE2TRI FOUNDATION$25,000
WHARTON SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$10,000
ACHILLES INTERNATIONAL$5,000
MIAMI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$5,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$4,974
YERKES FUTURE FOUNDATION$1,000
PROPUBLICA$1,000
RAPE ABUSE AND INCEST NATIONAL NETWORK (RAINN)$1,000
SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$1,000
EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION$500
WGCU PUBLIC MEDIA$366
LINCOLN PARK ZOO - LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS$366
CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA (WBEZ)$366
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 (FY19–19, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $500 → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
DC
GA
FL
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 27 repeat orgs$133k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
26

Total granted

$2.8M
$132k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+23%

Still filing today

52%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionOther
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

  • WC
    Wellesley College
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +63%
  • TA
    THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
    6× · 2017–2023 · $774k · revenue +45%
  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $47k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $51k
  • MF
    Marwen Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $36k · revenue +3%
  • AC
    AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
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
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
2
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management

Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.

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3
Illinois College

Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…

Education
4
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
5
United States Naval Institute

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.

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6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
Music Institute of Chicago

The music institute of chicago ("music institute") leads people toward a lifelong engagement with music, by providing widely accessible resources for high quality music teaching, performing, and service activities.

Arts & Culture
8
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
9
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
10
American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit
11
Lake Forest College

Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…

Education
12
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Horticultural Society; the most unlike its peers is Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. 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

37 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. 37 of the 58 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
25/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Wellesley College: $1,115,763 · EducationWellesley CollegeTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $773,751 · EducationTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO+8 more: $52,591 · EducationIndividual grant recipient: $425,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNATIONAL HISTORY MUSEUM & SMITHSONIAN: $130,000 · OtherNATIONAL HISTORY MUSEUM & SMITH…Individual grant recipient: $51,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWHARTON SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $50,000 · OtherWHARTON SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSIT…DARE2TRI FOUNDATION: $46,860 · OtherDARE2TRI FOUNDATION+25 more: $106,376 · Other+25 moreSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $47,000 · Arts & CultureMarwen Foundation Inc: $35,500 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $3,600 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $32,350 · EnvironmentChewonki Foundation Inc: $2,250 · Environment+2 more: $1,250 · EnvironmentAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $10,000 · HealthTHE WOMAN'S BOARD OF NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $2,000 · Health+2 more: $200 · HealthFRIENDS OF BERRIEN COUNTY TRAILS: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE FIRST TEE OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION: $500 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $18 · Recreation & SportsGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $1,050 · Food & Nutrition
Education$1,942,105Other$809,236Arts & Culture$86,100Environment$35,850Health$12,200Recreation & Sports$1,518Food & Nutrition$1,050

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWellesley College: $1,115,763 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $773,751 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $47,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMiami University Foundation: $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMarwen Foundation Inc: $35,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $32,350 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAchilles International Inc: $5,106 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA CATALINA ISLAND CONSERVANCY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFrancis W Parker School: $3,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChewonki Foundation Inc: $2,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WOMAN'S BOARD OF NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,116 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $1,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYERKES FUTURE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF BERRIEN COUNTY TRAILS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOPENLANDS: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOCK CLUB CHICAGO NFP: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NIGHT MINISTRY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $366 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTARABILITY FOUNDATION INC: $270 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHIKAMING OPEN LANDS: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS: $103 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMERMAN ANGELS: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBig Shoulders Fund: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe People's Music School: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE THRESHOLDS: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC: $18 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Wellesley College ↗
  • Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds Miami University Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Marwen Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds Achilles International Inc ↗
  • Who funds SANTA CATALINA ISLAND CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds Francis W Parker School ↗
  • Who funds Chewonki Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WOMAN'S BOARD OF NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds THE CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
  • Who funds INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds YERKES FUTURE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF BERRIEN COUNTY TRAILS ↗
  • Who funds OPENLANDS ↗
  • Who funds BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO NFP ↗

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 Chicago Community…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Circle of Service Fou…Jewish Federation of …AbbVie FoundationBaird Foundation IncVanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…
The Chicago Community TrustIL22.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · AbbVie Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Arthur D Collins Jr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arthur D Collins Jr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 58 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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