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Charitable Trust Agreement of Brion & Jennifer Collins

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.

$131k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
28
Grants FY2024
19
Organizations funded FY2023
21%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$4,700
Largest grant, FY2024
$21,600
Organizations funded a year
19 to 26
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
8
Total assets, FY2024
$732k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 21% of the organizations Charitable Trust Agreement of Brion & Jennifer Collins funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
ReligionHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving27$130k26%
FY202319$99k21%
FY202226$83k31%
FY202126$101k27%
FY202023$63k26%
FY201923$70k26%
FY201825$65k40%
FY201722$53kn/a
92% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$404kEducation$129kPhilanthropy$34kArts & Culture$15kHuman Services$11kPublic Safety & Disaster$11kInternational$5kHealth$4kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cursillo in Christianity of the Arc Hdiocese of Milwaukee$92,0008n/a
Saint Francis de Sales Seminary$40,0006n/a
The Evangelical Catholic Inc$26,00080%
Fellowship of Catholic University Students$19,6506n/a
Oconomowoc Rotary Charitable Foundation Inc$13,55578%
Catholic Relief Services$11,0003n/a
Discalced Carmelite Friars of Holy Hill Inc$10,5006n/a
Woodlawn Foundation$10,00020%
Immaculate Heart Media Inc$10,00020%
Arise Milwaukee Inc$6,00021%
Show all 30 grantees
All grantees of Charitable Trust Agreement of Brion & Jennifer Collins by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cursillo in Christianity of the Arc Hdiocese of Milwaukee$92,0008n/a
Saint Francis de Sales Seminary$40,0006n/a
The Evangelical Catholic Inc$26,00080%
Fellowship of Catholic University Students$19,6506n/a
Oconomowoc Rotary Charitable Foundation Inc$13,55578%
Catholic Relief Services$11,0003n/a
Discalced Carmelite Friars of Holy Hill Inc$10,5006n/a
Woodlawn Foundation$10,00020%
Immaculate Heart Media Inc$10,00020%
Arise Milwaukee Inc$6,00021%
Handmaids of the Heart of Jesus$5,1254n/a
Pontifical University of the Holy Cross Foundation$5,00011%
Friends of the Bridegroom Ltd$5,00011%
Life's Connection Inc$3,70020%
Alliance Defending Freedom$2,25040%
Summit Educational Association Inc$1,50010%
Virtue Sports Inc$1,25012%
Paradisus Dei Inc$1,2502n/a
St Augustine University Parish$1,2001n/a
Feeding America$1,00010%
Layton Study Center Inc$1,00010%
Apostolate for Family Consecration$7502n/a
Northwestern University$70040%
4 Paws for Ability Inc$25010%
Andean Health and Development Inc$25010%
Province of St Joseph of the Capuchin Order$2501n/a
The V Foundation$20010%
American Lung Association$10010%
The Wisconsin Philharmonic Inc$1001n/a
American Heart Association Inc$1010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($395k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Charitable Trust Agreement of Brion & Jennifer Collins supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Evangelical Catholic Inc: $26,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetOconomowoc Rotary Charitable Foundation Inc: $13,555 over 7y, 8.0% of budgetWoodlawn Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetImmaculate Heart Media Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArise Milwaukee Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPontifical University of the Holy Cross Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFriends of the Bridegroom Ltd: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLife's Connection Inc: $3,700 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAlliance Defending Freedom: $2,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSummit Educational Association Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVirtue Sports Inc: $1,250 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFeeding America: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLayton Study Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNorthwestern University: $700 over 4y, 0.0% of budget4 Paws for Ability Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAndean Health and Development Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe V Foundation: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Lung Association: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $10 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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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.

Baird Foundation IncWI18.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baird Foundation Inc · Archdiocese of Milwaukee Catholic Community Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Charleston Family Foundation Inc · Oconomowoc Area Foundation Inc · Mercy Works Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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.

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About Charitable Trust Agreement of Brion & Jennifer Collins

How much does Charitable Trust Agreement of Brion & Jennifer Collins give?
Charitable Trust Agreement of Brion & Jennifer Collins reported 28 grants totaling $130,894 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Charitable Trust Agreement of Brion & Jennifer Collins fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (61%), Education (19%), Philanthropy (5%).
Who are Charitable Trust Agreement of Brion & Jennifer Collins's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Cursillo in Christianity of the Arc Hdiocese of Milwaukee ($92k), Saint Francis de Sales Seminary ($40k), The Evangelical Catholic Inc ($26k).
Does Charitable Trust Agreement of Brion & Jennifer Collins fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Charitable Trust Agreement of Brion & Jennifer Collins accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Charitable Trust Agreement of Brion & Jennifer Collins?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Baird Foundation Inc, Archdiocese of Milwaukee Catholic Community Foundation Inc, American Endowment Foundation.
Where is Charitable Trust Agreement of Brion & Jennifer Collins based?
Charitable Trust Agreement of Brion & Jennifer Collins is based in WI.

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 71 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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