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Collette 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.

$285k
Granted FY2025still arriving
107
Grants FY2025still arriving
31
States reached
$42k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$197kCommunity Improvement$138kPublic Safety & Disaster$115kHealth$110kHuman Services$95kInternational$75kYouth Development$33kEnvironment$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 107 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k95 grants · $57k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $228k
$100
Median grant
31
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Pack Shack$42,250
Social Enterprise Greenhouse$35,000
Boys and Girls Club of Pawtucket$30,100
Feed RI$18,750
Pawtucket Foundation$18,000
RI Community Food Bank$15,250
YMCA of Pawtucket RI$14,950
Individual grant recipient$12,500
Individual grant recipient$10,500
American Heart Association Eastern States$10,441
Tauck Family Foundation$10,000
McAuley House$10,000
World Central Kitchen$8,113
Individual grant recipient$7,500
Pawtucket Soup Kitchen$6,200
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%Compassionate Care ALS: $50 → 8%Long Island Cares: $500 → 7%The Pack Shack: $42k → 8%Project Linus: $500 → 8%Progresso Latino Inc: $15k → 14%NEADS: $100 → 11%YMCA of Pawtucket Inc: $12k → 7%NEADS: $50 → 11%Hebron Food Pantry: $500 → 11%Family Service of RI: $15k → 14%Crossroads RI: $5k → 14%The Elisha Project: $20k → 14%African Alliance of Rhode Island: $10k → 14%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

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VT
NH
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IL
MI
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OR
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IN
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
WV
MD
DE
AZ
NM
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AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
GA
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of Collette Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 64% of the giving stays in RI; by stated purpose, 61%.

Collette Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.1% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

34%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$307k · 21 repeat orgs$601k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 89 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
62

Total granted

$307k
$421k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+16%

Still filing today

57%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHealthAnimalsInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $48k · revenue +36%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +1%
  • PAWTUCKET SOUP KITCHEN
    3× · 2023–2025 · $10k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • NF
    Nature Foundation SA
    one grant, 2020 · $28k
  • DIRECT RELIEF
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +6%
  • EP
    ELISHA PROJECT
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -23%
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.

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Greater Boston Food Bank Inc

Our costs consist of acquiring, sorting and distributing food to 617 member agencies, transportation and logistics, and community outreach to 69 direct distribution sites such as gbfb mobile markets, and federal distributions for low…

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2
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
3
Connecticut Foodshare Inc

The mission of the connecticut foodshare is to deliver an informed and equitable response to hunger by mobilizing community partners, volunteers, and supporters.

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4
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
5
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
6
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
7
Philabundance

PHILABUNDANCE WAS FOUNDED IN 1984 WITH THE SIMPLE BELIEF THAT NO ONE SHOULD GO HUNGRY WHILE HEALTHY FOOD GOES TO WASTE. OUR MISSION IS TO DRIVE HUNGER FROM OUR COMMUNITIES TODAY AND TO END HUNGER FOR GOOD. We have a commitment to always…

Food & Nutrition
8
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
9
Feeding Westchester Inc

Driven by the belief that access to healthy food is a basic right for all people, feeding westchester leads hunger action programs and mobilizes the resources needed to eradicate hunger in westchester county.

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10
Community Food Bank of New Jersey Inc

We serve as a champion for addressing the root causes of hunger, delivering neighbor-centric solutions, and fostering collaborative partnerships across all sectors of society for New Jersey.

Food & Nutrition
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Island Harvest Ltd

The mission of island harvest is to end hunger and reduce food waste on long island.

Human Services
12
Food Bank Association of New York State

The mission of feeding new york state is to lead a unified effort for a hunger-free state of new york. the mission of food banking is to obtain food and deliver it to emergency food programs. feeding new york state works to end hunger by…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals On Wheels of Ri Inc; the most unlike its peers is Tauck Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

108 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. 108 of the 174 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)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
106/108
Grantees still filing
55/108
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

American Heart Association: $55,000 · OtherAmerican Heart AssociationNature Foundation SA: $27,689 · OtherNature Foundation SAIndividual grant recipient: $21,000 · OtherRI Hospital Foundation: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $18,000 · OtherTOURISM CARES INC: $20,000 · Other+115 more: $279,029 · Other+115 moreTHE PACK SHACK: $42,250 · Human ServicesTHE PACK SHACKELISHA PROJECT: $20,000 · Human ServicesELISHA PROJECTPROGRESO LATINO: $15,000 · Human ServicesPROGRESO LATINOFAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICE …YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PAWTUCKET INC: $11,530 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHR…AFRICAN ALLIANCE OF RHODE ISLAND (AARI): $10,000 · Human ServicesAFRICAN ALLIANC…CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $5,000 · Human Services+7 more: $1,800 · Human ServicesWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $48,113 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL …DIRECT RELIEF: $20,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEFMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $15,020 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS …AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC: $12,397 · InternationalAMIGOS OF COST…Children International: $10,000 · InternationalChildren Inter…Global Compact Network USA Inc: $7,500 · InternationalGlobal Compact…+3 more: $160 · InternationalSOCIAL ENTERPRISE GREENHOUSE: $62,000 · PhilanthropySOCIAL ENTE…CHIEF EXECUTIVES FOR CORPORATE PURPOSE INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyCHIEF EXECU…TAUCK FAMILY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTAUCK FAMIL…ONE TREE PLANTED INC: $5,492 · PhilanthropyONE TREE PL…+3 more: $1,750 · PhilanthropyFeed RI: $40,750 · Food & NutritionMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $6,832 · Food & NutritionEDESIA INC: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition+11 more: $1,165 · Food & NutritionPAWTUCKET FOUNDATION: $22,000 · Community ImprovementPAWTUCKET SOUP KITCHEN: $10,350 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSITY: $2,500 · Community ImprovementBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PAWTUCKET: $30,100 · Youth DevelopmentTHE ORANGE DUFFEL BAG INITIATIVE INC: $2,500 · Youth Development+3 more: $180 · Youth Development
Other$460,718Human Services$120,580International$113,190Philanthropy$94,242Food & Nutrition$53,747Community Improvement$34,850Youth Development$32,780

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOCIAL ENTERPRISE GREENHOUSE: $62,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $48,113 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFeed RI: $40,750 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPAWTUCKET FOUNDATION: $22,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELISHA PROJECT: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTOURISM CARES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $15,020 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROGRESO LATINO: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHIEF EXECUTIVES FOR CORPORATE PURPOSE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC: $12,397 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PAWTUCKET INC: $11,530 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $10,441 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAWTUCKET SOUP KITCHEN: $10,350 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetAFRICAN ALLIANCE OF RHODE ISLAND (AARI): $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetBLACKSTONE VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBlackstone Valley Community Health Care Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL PEARLS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJOURNEYS WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY: $10,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetTAUCK FAMILY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetChildren International: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMCAULEY CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDOWNTOWN PROVIDENCE PARKS NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetGlobal Compact Network USA Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE JONNYCAKE CENTER OF WESTERLY INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $6,832 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONE TREE PLANTED INC: $5,492 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAWTUCKET CENTRAL FALLS DEVELOPMENT CORP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBENTLEY UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDESIA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRSTWORKS: $4,050 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBREAKING BREAD USA: $3,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetGROUNDWORK RHODE ISLAND: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FORESTS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRYANT UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREGIS COLLEGE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLORIA GEMMA BREAST CANCER RESOURCE FOUNDATION: $1,894 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEWIS & CLARK FOUNDATION: $1,200 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNAMI Rhode Island: $765 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWEST YANCEY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPENSACOLA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $750 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetABERCROMBIE & KENT PHILANTHROPY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

The Rhode Island Comm…Bristol County Saving…Amica Companies Found…The Champlin Foundati…United Way of Rhode I…Citizens Charitable F…Ralph R Papitto & Bar…The Beacon FoundationCentreville Savings B…Alice I Sullivan Char…Pawtucket Red Sox Jam…Banknewport Charitabl…
The Rhode Island Community FoundationRI45.3× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · The Beacon Foundation · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Alice I Sullivan Charitablefoundation · Pawtucket Red Sox James J Skeffington Charitable Foundation · Banknewport Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Collette Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Collette Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • The Diaper Bank of Connecticut Inc: 49% of income from government
  • Food Bank of Delaware Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Salem Interfaith Hospitality Network: 25% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Regis College: 2% of income from government
  • Neads Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Bentley University: 1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
33report 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 Collette Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Collette 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 174 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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