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Collier Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$55k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$8k
Largest
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 2024.

Human Services$99kReligion$53kInternational$50kHealth$25kHousing & Shelter$17kPhilanthropy$13kArts & Culture$5kAnimals$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
APPLEWOOD VALLEY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$8,000
UPLIFT INTERNATIONAL$5,000
SOUL DOG RESCUE$5,000
LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$5,000
EVERGREEN ROTARY FOUNDATION$5,000
CAFE DE LA CULTURE INC$5,000
BURLINGTON AREA SENIOR CITIZENS INC$4,000
JEFFCO HUMAN SERVICES FOUNDATION$3,000
JEFFCO ACTION CENTER FOR J-HELP PROGRAM$3,000
MEAN STREET MINISTRY$2,500
MOUNTAIR CHRISTIAN CHURCH$2,500
FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC$2,000
RALSTON HOUSE$2,000
SENIORS RESOURCE CENTER$2,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$1,000
02The need
03

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 (FY20–24, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $5k → 8%SENIORS RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 12%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $3k → 8%SENIORS RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 12%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $2k → 8%SENIORS RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 12%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $1k → 8%SENIORS RESOURCE CENTER: $2k → 12%SENIORS RESOURCE CENTER: $2k → 12%JEFFCO HUMAN SERVICES FOUNDATION: $3k → 7%JEFFCO HUMAN SERVICES FOUNDATION: $3k → 7%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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$272k · 14 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
2

Total granted

$272k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
0%

Still filing today

57%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthInternationalPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementAnimalsOther
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

  • LM
    LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +66%
  • MS
    MEAN STREET MINISTRY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +11%
  • FS
    FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $11k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • CD
    CAFE DE LA CULTURE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • SD
    SOUL DOG RESCUE
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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
Lutheran Social Services of Colorado

Rooted in the values of kindness, dignity and social justice, lfsrm strenghtens communities by providing support, guidance, and resource coordination to individuals and families throughout the rocky mountain region.

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2
Dogs Unbroken

Dog Rescue Dogs Unbroken supports Colorado dogs at higher risk for euthanasia evaluating their behavioral stability and applying training methods appropriate for their needs. The goal of helping each dog learn to make good choices in…

Animals
3
Summit Assistance Dogs

Summit assistance dogs is a nonprofit organization that creates life-changing partnerships by providing highly-trained mobility assistance dogs for people living with disabilities.

Human Services
4
Street Dog Hero

Serving dogs in need around the world and their communities through rescue, adoption, wellness, spay/neuter, and education. street dog hero envisions a world where all dogs are healthy, safe, cared for, and wanted.

Animals
5
Denver Rescue Mission

The denver rescue mission is changing lives in the name of christ by meeting people at their physical and spiritual points of need with the goal of returning them to society as productive, self-sufficient citizens.

Human Services
6
Colorado Springs All Breed Rescue

Since 1994, our mission has been to rescue, rehabilitate, and find forever families for dogs deemed unadoptable and facing euthanasia.

Animals
7
Freedom Ride Rescue

Freedom ride rescue is committed to saving dogs from overcrowded shelters and placing them in loving foster homes until they find their forever families. our mission is to create a no-kill state by rehabilitating and rehoming dogs while…

Animals
8
Pueblo Rescue Mission

Because of our love for God, we extend his mercy as we strive to empower and improve the lives of unsheltered adults in Pueblo, CO, through provisions of food, shelter and navigational support services.

—
9
Animal Rescue of the Rockies

Animal Care and Adoption - ARR's mission is to save the lives of homeless and abandoned dogs and cats. Our goal is reaching a no-kill society in the United States.

Animals
10
Lucky Day Animal Rescue of Colorado

Lucky Day Animal Rescue of Colorado LDAR serves the public as a 501c3 tax exempt, non-profit organization dedicated to the rescue of homeless and abandoned animals in Colorado and surrounding areas. We rescue, rehabilitate and find homes…

Animals
11
Living Grace Canine Ranch

Living Grace Canine Ranch is a Senior Dog Life Care Sanctuary. A 501(c)(3) charity dedicated to saving, serving, and valuing the lives of displaced, unadoptable and unwanted Texas senior canines. Our mission of mercy celebrates all breeds,…

Animals
12
Humane Society of the South Platte Valley Inc

HSSPV's mission is to be a leader in saving lives and serving communities by providing innovative care for animals, finding loving homes and reuniting families.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seniors' Resource Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Uplift Internationale. 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

9 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. 9 of the 16 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

APPLEWOOD VALLEY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $40,500 · OtherAPPLEWOOD VALLEY UNITED METHODIST CHURCHJEFFCO ACTION CENTER FOR J-HELP PROGRAM: $39,000 · OtherJEFFCO ACTION CENTER FOR J-HELP PROGRAMHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $17,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYBURLINGTON AREA SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $17,000 · OtherBURLINGTON AREA SENIOR CITIZENS INCIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMOUNTAIR CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $12,500 · OtherMOUNTAIR CHRISTIAN CHURCHCAFE DE LA CULTURE INC: $5,000 · OtherEvergreen Rotary Foundation Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesEvergreen Rotary Foundat…SENIORS' RESOURCE CENTER INC: $19,000 · Human ServicesSENIORS' RESOURCE CENTER…FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $10,500 · Human ServicesFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INCJEFFCO PROSPERITY PARTNERS: $6,000 · Human ServicesJEFFCO PROSPERITY PARTNE…LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthLUTHERAN M…UPLIFT INTERNATIONALE: $25,000 · InternationalUPLIFT INT…MEAN STREET MINISTRY: $12,500 · PhilanthropyRalston House: $7,500 · Community ImprovementSOUL DOG RESCUE: $5,000 · Animals
Other$146,000Human Services$60,500Health$25,000International$25,000Philanthropy$12,500Community Improvement$7,500Animals$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUPLIFT INTERNATIONALE: $25,000 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetEvergreen Rotary Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetSENIORS' RESOURCE CENTER INC: $19,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMEAN STREET MINISTRY: $12,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $10,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRalston House: $7,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJEFFCO PROSPERITY PARTNERS: $6,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSOUL DOG RESCUE: $5,000 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 LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UPLIFT INTERNATIONALE ↗
  • Who funds Evergreen Rotary Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds SENIORS' RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MEAN STREET MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
  • Who funds Ralston House ↗
  • Who funds JEFFCO PROSPERITY PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds SOUL DOG RESCUE ↗

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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO20.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Collier Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Collier Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 16 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.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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