How much does Colin Higgins Foundation give?

Colin Higgins Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $51,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Colin Higgins Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (44%), Youth Development (40%), Public Safety & Disaster (6%).

Who are Colin Higgins Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Frameline Inc ($95k), Outfest ($51k), Future Perfect Project Inc ($27k).

Does Colin Higgins Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Colin Higgins Foundation 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.

Where is Colin Higgins Foundation based?

Colin Higgins Foundation is based in CA.

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Colin Higgins 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.

$51k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 2
Grants FY2024: 2
Organizations funded FY2023: 100%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $39,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $39,000
Organizations funded a year: 2 to 11; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 2
Total assets, FY2024: $464k
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Colin Higgins Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	2	$51k	0%
FY2023	2	$71k	100%
FY2022	2	$71k	100%
FY2021	11	$65k	100%
FY2020	4	$65k	100%
FY2019	9	$73k	100%
FY2018	7	$63k	100%
FY2017	2	$42k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$221kYouth Development$202kPublic Safety & Disaster$30kEducation$10kEnvironment$10kCommunity Improvement$10kCivil Rights$8kHealth$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

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

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Frameline Inc	$95,000	2	2%
Outfest	$51,000	1	1%
Future Perfect Project Inc	$27,000	2	3%
Windrider Institute Inc	$20,000	1	1%
The Center for Independent Documentary Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Community Partners	$10,000	1	0%
Creative Visions Foundation	$8,000	1	0%
The Tyler Clementi Foundation Inc	$5,000	1	1%

Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($265k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Colin Higgins Foundation supplied at peak.

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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 8.

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About Colin Higgins Foundation

How much does Colin Higgins Foundation give?: Colin Higgins Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $51,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Colin Higgins Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (44%), Youth Development (40%), Public Safety & Disaster (6%).
Who are Colin Higgins Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Frameline Inc ($95k), Outfest ($51k), Future Perfect Project Inc ($27k).
Does Colin Higgins Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Colin Higgins Foundation 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.
Where is Colin Higgins Foundation based?: Colin Higgins Foundation is based in CA.