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Colina 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k26 grants · $84k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $97k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Detroit Public Television | $25,000 |
| Ecology Center | $12,000 |
| National Kidney Foundation of Michigan | $10,000 |
| Girl Scouts of SE Michigan | $10,000 |
| Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mtns | $10,000 |
| Book Trust | $10,000 |
| Fish & Loaves | $10,000 |
| Vista Maria | $10,000 |
| Ripple Effects Community Inclusion Center | $7,000 |
| Community Grown Gardens | $6,385 |
| Community Foundation of Northern Colorado | $6,000 |
| Reef Environmental Education Foundation | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| STEM Greenhouse | $5,000 |
| Treetops Collective | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 15 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, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- NKNational Kidney Foundation of Michigan Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +93%
- RMROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC7× · 2017–2023 · $70k · revenue +25%
- DPDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA4× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- BHBEAUMONTOAKWOOD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATone grant, 2018 · $10k
- BSBOY SCOUTS-MICHIGAN CROSSROADS COUNone grant, 2022 · $10k
- CACHILD AND YOUNG ADULT RESOURCEone grant, 2023 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
Shape and drive bold policy solutions to achieve equitable carbon-neutral economies.
Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…
The coalition to protect michigan resources's mission is to be a strong voice for the equitable co-management of michigan's fisheries, with both the great lakes and inland lakes and streams, to insure that conservation principles remain in…
Catalyze collaboration across perspectives, power, and systems for social equity and environmental health.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project Self-Sufficiency of Northern Colorado and the most unlike its peers is Neuropong. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
57 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 57 of the 116 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ALMA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds National Kidney Foundation of Michigan Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds ECOLOGY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE MATTHEWS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds VISTA MARIA ↗
- Who funds Kalamazoo Nature Center ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - DETROIT ↗
- Who funds STARR COMMONWEALTH ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE GUIDANCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FISH & LOAVES ↗
- Who funds BOOK TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: United Way of Larimer County · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · Woodward Governor Charitable Trust · Colorado Gives Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · Anschutz Family Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Grapevine giving foundation · The Food Bank for Larimer County · Nebraska Community Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · El Pomar Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Colina Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Sea Turtle Conservancy — 1% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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