· Private foundation
B & E Collins 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRUE THE VOTE | $30,000 |
| INDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE | $20,000 |
| SAFE SHELTER OF ST VRAIN VALLEY | $20,000 |
| MILA'S MIRACLE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| REASON FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
| COLORADO LEARNING CTR FOR HUMAN ANA | $10,000 |
| FREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| FEEDING TAMPA BAY | $10,000 |
| DHARMA'S GARDEN | $10,000 |
| BELOVED ASHEVILLE | $10,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| BROTHER WOLF ANIMAL RESCUE | $10,000 |
| CATO INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of B & E Collins Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TTTRUE THE VOTE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $140k · revenue +20%
- TRTHE REASON FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +41%
- SSSAFE SHELTER OF ST VRAIN VALLEY5× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- PRPEAK RESEARCH INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +80%
- EDESCUELA DE GUADALUPE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $13k
- SFSTAND FOR CHILDREN COLORADOone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
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.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
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To advance economic and social liberties and a free enterprise society through strategic litigation, training, communication, activism and research. in addition, the center will train law students, lawyers and policy activists in the…
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
The mission of the freedom forum institute is to champion the five freedoms of the first amendment through education and entertainment.
Techfreedom's mission is to promote the progress of technology that improves the human condition and expands individual capacity to choose. techfreedom advances the freedoms that make experimentation, entrepreneurship and investment…
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
Support public interest litigators by leveraging resources and creating opportunities for collaboration to advance freedom under the rule of law.
The institute for defense analyses is organized for the purpose of applied research. the institute for defense analyses provides independent and objective scientific and technological expertise to assist national security decision-makers…
The organization provides public education on artificial intelligence.
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How this is measured
16 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. 16 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 TRUE THE VOTE INC ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE REASON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAFE SHELTER OF ST VRAIN VALLEY ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILA'S MIRACLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEAK RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Brother Wolf Animal Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE KIVA CENTER ↗
- Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds JUNKYARD SOCIAL CLUB ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization B & E Collins Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from B & E Collins Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc: 2% of income from government
- Artists for Humanity Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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