· Private foundation
Collins Charitable 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $230k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER | $25,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE | $25,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $25,000 |
| BEEBE MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CLEAR SPACE THEATRE | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE | $20,000 |
| CHILDRENS BEACH HOUSE | $15,000 |
| PATHWAYS TO SUCCESS | $10,000 |
| CAMDEN COALITION OF HEALTHCARE | $10,000 |
| JOSHUA M FREEMAN FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND | $10,000 |
| FIRST TEE - DELAWARE | $10,000 |
| REHOBOTH BEACH BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $10,000 |
| REHOBOTH BEACH VOL FIRE DEPT | $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 (FY20–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +38% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- CRCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $150k · revenue +92%
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE5× · 2020–2024 · $130k · revenue +29%- FBFOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE-CEEEone grant, 2020 · $40k
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS OF LEWES & REHOBOTH INCone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +14%
- RBREHOBOTH BEACH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPTone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
Public library
The organization develops, facilitates, and oversees the implementation of collaborative efforts aimed at transforming the delivery of health care services in delaware.
The delaware center for justice, inc. seeks to ensure an effective, efficient, and equitable system of justice in delaware through advocacy, direct services, research and public education.
Our mission is to advance housing opportunities, end homelessness, and promote thriving communities for all.
The delaware hiv consortium is dedicated to providing leadership to eliminate hiv in delaware by supporting and providing optimal hiv care and prevention services.
The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.
Provide health care services to the medically underserved, uninsured, and under insured residents of sussex county of delaware.
To eliminate the spread and stigma of hiv/aids, improve the lives of those living with hiv/aids, and promote community health through comprehensive and culturally-sensitive services, education programs and advocacy.
Coastal hospice promotes dignity and quality of life for patients and families who face life-limiting conditions.
The arc of delaware promotes and protects the human rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and actively supports full inclusion and participation in the community through advocacy and services to individuals and…
The Selbyville Public Library provides free access to information and library materials to residents and visitors to Sussex County in the State of Delaware.
To guide, serve and support delaware physicians, promoting the practice and profession of medicine to enhance the health of our communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rehoboth Beach Historical Society and the most unlike its peers is Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 40 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 COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds BEEBE MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S BEACH HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds PREVENTION POINT PHILADELPHIA INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS TO SUCCESS INC ↗
- Who funds SUSSEX COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds REHOBOTH BEACH HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE REHOBOTH BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE FOR BROKEN WINGS ↗
- Who funds Camden Coalition Inc ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF LEWES & REHOBOTH INC ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARCH STREET CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE INLAND BAYS INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER COUNTY FOOD HUB ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOSHUA M FREEMAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 350ORG ↗
- Who funds GRASS ROOTS RESCUE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds REHOBOTH BEACH MAIN STREET INC ↗
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: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc · Longwood Foundation Inc · Welfare Foundation Inc · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Franklin P and Arthur W Perdue Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Verizon 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 Collins Charitable 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Pathways to Success Inc — 95% of income from government
- Center for the Inland Bays Inc — 59% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Food Bank of Delaware Inc — 26% of income from government
- Sussex County Habitat for Humanity — 23% of income from government
- Joshua M Freeman Foundation — 20% of income from government
- Rehoboth Beach Historical Society — 10% of income from government
- Maryland Academy of Sciences — 9% of income from government
- Rehoboth Beach Main Street Inc — 7% of income from government
- Children's Beach House Inc — 5% of income from government
- Beebe Medical Foundation — 2% 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.