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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.

$181k
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$236kEnvironment$219kHealth$195kYouth Development$175kHuman Services$112kArts & Culture$84kPhilanthropy$51kFood & Nutrition$46kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k26 grants · $84k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $97k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $3k → 10%Treetops Collective: $5k → 11%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $1k → 10%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $500 → 10%TREETOPS COLLECTIVE: $2k → 11%STARR COMMONWEALTH: $5k → 14%STARR COMMONWEALTH: $5k → 14%STARR COMMONWEALTH: $4k → 14%STARR COMMONWEALTH: $1k → 14%TABLE TENNIS CONNECTIONS: $3k → 11%FIRST DAY SHOE FUND: $2k → 12%MATTHEWS HOUSE: $10k → 11%MATTHEWS HOUSE: $10k → 11%MATTHEWS HOUSE: $8k → 11%MATTHEWS HOUSE: $8k → 11%MATTHEWS HOUSE: $5k → 11%HOMEWARD ALLIANCE: $2k → 11%FAMILY HOUSING NETWORK: $2k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
MA
IA
OH
CA
CO
VA
DC
AL
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 49 repeat orgs$259k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +38% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
50

Total granted

$1.1M
$180k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+38%

Still filing today

61%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHuman ServicesCivil RightsHealthFood & NutritionEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • NK
    National Kidney Foundation of Michigan Inc
    7× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +93%
  • RM
    ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $70k · revenue +38%
  • DP
    DETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA
    4× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • MC
    MI CLINICIANS FOR CLIMATE ACTION
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • BH
    BEAUMONTOAKWOOD HEALTHCARE FOUNDAT
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • BS
    BOY SCOUTS-MICHIGAN CROSSROADS COUN
    one grant, 2022 · $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.

04Its field

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.

1
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
2
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
3
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
4
Project Drawdown

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;…

Education
5
Friends of the Earth

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…

Environment
6
Michigan Enviromental Council

Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.

Environment
7
Fresh Energy

Shape and drive bold policy solutions to achieve equitable carbon-neutral economies.

Environment
8
Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition
9
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
10
Conservation Law Foundation Inc

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,…

Environment
11
Coalition to Protect Michigan 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…

Environment
12
Environmental Initiative

Catalyze collaboration across perspectives, power, and systems for social equity and environmental health.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project Self-Sufficiency of Northern Colorado; 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.
04the grantee network

57 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. 57 of the 116 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/57
Grantees still filing
44/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GIRLSCOUTS OF SE MI: $58,000 · OtherGIRLSCOUTS OF SE MICOMMUNITY FDN OF SE MI: $40,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FDN OF SE MICOMMUNITY FDN OF N COLORADO: $31,100 · OtherVISTA MARIA: $30,000 · OtherGARFIELD ELEMENTARY: $30,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS - DETROIT: $30,000 · OtherFIRST STEP: $28,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $27,000 · OtherTHE HENRY FORD: $24,000 · Other+73 more: $390,105 · Other+73 moreECOLOGY CENTER: $51,000 · EnvironmentECOLOGY CENTERKalamazoo Nature Center: $30,000 · EnvironmentKalamazoo Nature…INTERNATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE ALLIANCE: $24,280 · EnvironmentINTERNATIONAL WI…EARTHJUSTICE: $23,450 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICENATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $22,750 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCE…OCEAN CONSERVANCY: $14,750 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONSERVANC…CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $9,000 · EnvironmentOCEANA INC: $8,000 · Environment+2 more: $4,500 · EnvironmentNational Kidney Foundation of Michigan Inc: $80,000 · HealthNational Kidne…ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $70,000 · HealthROCKY MOUNTAIN…THE GUIDANCE CENTER: $10,500 · HealthTHE GUIDANCE C…+2 more: $6,000 · HealthALMA COLLEGE: $100,000 · EducationALMA COLL…BOOK TRUST: $10,000 · EducationBOOK TRUS…STEM GREENHOUSE INC: $5,000 · EducationTHE MATTHEWS HOUSE: $40,000 · Human ServicesSTARR COMMONWEALTH: $15,100 · Human ServicesTreetops Collective: $7,000 · Human ServicesPaws With A Cause: $4,000 · Human ServicesNEUROPONG: $3,000 · Human Services+4 more: $6,500 · Human ServicesDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA: $60,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $9,250 · Civil RightsFREE SPEECH FOR PEOPLE INC: $8,000 · Civil RightsALIANZA NORCO: $7,000 · Civil RightsLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC: $1,500 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $1,500 · Civil Rights
Other$688,205Environment$187,730Health$166,500Education$115,000Human Services$75,600Arts & Culture$65,000Civil Rights$27,250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALMA COLLEGE: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation of Michigan Inc: $80,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $70,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA: $60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetECOLOGY CENTER: $51,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTHE MATTHEWS HOUSE: $40,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetVISTA MARIA: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKalamazoo Nature Center: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE ALLIANCE: $24,280 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $23,450 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $22,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - DETROIT: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSTARR COMMONWEALTH: $15,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $14,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GUIDANCE CENTER: $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOOK TRUST: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFISH & LOAVES: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCOUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS: $9,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $9,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLoveland Youth Gardeners: $8,500 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetOCEANA INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFREE SPEECH FOR PEOPLE INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENCY OF NORTHERN COLORADO: $7,600 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTreetops Collective: $7,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetALIANZA NORCO: $7,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetRIPPLE EFFECTS COMMUNITY INCLUSION CENTER: $7,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN COLORADO: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREEF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEM GREENHOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $4,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPaws With A Cause: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL POLICY INC: $3,150 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOUR KITCHEN TABLE: $3,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSROADS SAFEHOUSE INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOMEWARD ALLIANCE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGENEROUS HANDS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSOUTHWEST MICHIGAN LAND CONSERVENCY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFIRST DAY SHOE FUND: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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 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 BOOK TRUST ↗
  • Who funds FISH & LOAVES ↗
  • Who funds COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS 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.

United Way of Larimer…Otter Cares Foundatio…Woodward Governor Cha…Colorado Gives Founda…Community Foundation …Anschutz Family Found…Consumers Energy Foun…Grapevine giving foun…The Food Bank for Lar…Nebraska Community Fo…United Way for Southe…El Pomar Foundation
United Way of Larimer CountyCO24× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Colina Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Colina Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Sea Turtle Conservancy: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Colina Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Colina 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.

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 116 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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