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Collins Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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Collins Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.1M
Granted FY2020
21
Grants FY2020
5
States reached
$700k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2020.

Philanthropy$11MEducation$4.5MHealth$528kHousing & Shelter$235kArts & Culture$150kCommunity Improvement$100kAnimals$10kYouth Development$10kOther$0
02FY2020 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $97k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.9M
$97,980
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WEDU$700,000
Carnegie Mellon University$500,000
Haverford College$400,000
SJOGREN'S SYNDROME FOUNDATION$300,000
Community Foundation of Tampa Bay$200,000
Dunedin Fine Art Center$150,000
Habitat for Humanity$150,000
Pinellas Community Foundation$134,091
St Petersburg College Foundation In$100,000
211 Tampa Bay Cares Inc$100,000
MORTON PLANT MEASE HEALTH CARE FOUN$97,980
HOMELESS EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM$85,000
UNC Health Foundation$60,000
CLEARWATER FREE CLINIC$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA$42,000
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 (FY20–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%RANDOM ACTS OF FLOWERS TAMPA BAY: $10k → 12%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 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
University of Central Florida Foundation Inc

The ucf foundation encourages, stewards and celebrates charitable contributions from alumni and friends to support university of central florida (ucf).

Education
2
Usf Research Foundation Inc

To promote, encourage and enhance research activities at the university of south florida.

Education
3
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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4
University of South Florida Foundation Inc

University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…

Education
5
Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc

See schedule ocollaboratory is a community foundation with an evolved mission committed to coordinating the solving of southwest florida's major social problems by 2040. since our founding in 1976, we have been supporting local causes and…

Philanthropy
6
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
8
University of Florida Health Corporation

UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

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9
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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10
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Florida Community Health Centers Inc

Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.

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12
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dunedin Fine Art Center. 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

19 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. 19 of the 23 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DECHOMAI FOUNDATION INC: $11,006,240 · PhilanthropyDECHOMAI FOUNDATION INC+2 more: $334,091 · PhilanthropyLASELL UNIVERSITY: $2,759,168 · EducationLASELL UNIVERSITYCORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE: $400,000 · EducationCORPORATION OF HAVERFO…+3 more: $175,000 · EducationFLORIDA WEST COAST PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $700,000 · Arts & CultureDunedin Fine Art Center: $150,000 · Arts & CultureCarnegie Mellon University: $500,000 · OtherHabitat for Humanity: $150,000 · OtherMORTON PLANT MEASE HEALTH CARE FOUN: $97,980 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: $42,000 · Other+5 more: $48,000 · OtherSJOGREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 · HealthClearwater Free Clinic Inc: $50,000 · Health211 Tampa Bay Cares Inc: $100,000 · Community ImprovementHOMELESS EMERGENCY PROJECT INC: $85,000 · Housing & Shelter
Philanthropy$11,340,331Education$3,334,168Arts & Culture$850,000Other$837,980Health$350,000Community Improvement$100,000Housing & Shelter$85,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLASELL UNIVERSITY: $2,759,168 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetFLORIDA WEST COAST PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $700,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE: $400,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSJOGREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDunedin Fine Art Center: $150,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetPINELLAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $134,091 over 1y, 0.6% of budget211 Tampa Bay Cares Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetST PETERSBURG COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetHOMELESS EMERGENCY PROJECT INC: $85,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetClearwater Free Clinic Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE DOANE STUART SCHOOL: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSUNCOAST ANIMAL LEAGUE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGirl Scouts of West Central Florida Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDIRECTIONS FOR MENTAL HEALTH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Community Foundation …Pinellas Community Fo…Duke Energy FoundationRays Baseball Foundat…United Way Suncoast I…Vinik Family Foundati…Senior Citizens Servi…The Ruth & J O Stone …Copperhead Charities …Allegany Franciscan M…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Endowment Fo…
Community Foundation of Tampa Bay IncFL25.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Pinellas Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Rays Baseball Foundation Inc · United Way Suncoast Inc · Vinik Family Foundation · Senior Citizens Services Inc · The Ruth & J O Stone Foundation · Copperhead Charities Inc · Allegany Franciscan Ministries Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment 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 Collins Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Collins Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Homeless Emergency Project Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Lasell University: 4% of income from government
  • Directions for Mental Health Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Collins Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Collins Charitable Foundation Inc 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 23 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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