· Private foundation
Colin Family 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
99% of Colin Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to American Endowment Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 7 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Colin Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $105k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTCHESTER JEWISH CENTER | $20,000 |
| MOUNT SINAI - ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $15,000 |
| THE LOUIS BRANDEIS CENTER | $15,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $9,000 |
| DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $7,500 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS | $7,500 |
| CHILDREN'S HARBOR | $5,000 |
| CHABAD AT WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BOB WOODRUFF FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $3,500 |
| THE SHARING SHELF | $3,000 |
| ROHR CHABAD AT DUKE UNDERGRADS | $2,500 |
| CARVER CENTER | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TLThe Louis D Brandeis Center Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $65k · revenue +355%
- RCRYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL4× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +18%
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY4× · 2022–2025 · $30k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- EUEMORY UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $50k
- NLNYU LANGONEone grant, 2023 · $10k
- IIIMPACTISRAEL INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +60%
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.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 22 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 AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Louis D Brandeis Center Inc ↗
- Who funds RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHARING SHELF INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT HATFUTSOT D/B/A AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ANU-MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds IMPACTISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AIDS SERVICE CENTER OF LOWER MANHATTAN INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WINNEBAGO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Colin Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Colin Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Colin Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Colin Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
Play a game based on Colin Family’s filings →