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Collins Family 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.

$170k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2025
15
Organizations funded FY2024
7%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$111,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 22
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$420k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Collins Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
Arts & CultureHousing & ShelterEducationInternationalCrime & LegalEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving15$165k13%
FY202415$123k7%
FY202319$126k47%
FY202222$118k55%
FY202112$258k33%
FY20206$92k33%
FY201717$50kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$555kScience & Tech$205kArts & Culture$61kPhilanthropy$29kHuman Services$25kFood & Nutrition$25kHealth$14kPublic Safety & Disaster$11kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
DE
TN
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 24 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($686k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Collins Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetInstitute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation: $55,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Delaware: $45,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPrinceton Mobile Food Pantry Inc a Nj Nonprofit Corporation: $20,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetArts Council of Princeton: $19,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWomanspace Inc: $14,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMcCarter Theatre Company: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGet Lit - Words Ignite Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPresent Day Club: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLove146 Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHospice Foundation of America Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPortledge School: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRetreat Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Apostles' House: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAli Forney Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHigh Point Volunteer Fire Company: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBarnegat Light First Aid Squad Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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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 Burke Foundation IncNJ15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Burke Foundation Inc · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Verizon Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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.

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How do I get to Collins Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Collins Family 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.

About Collins Family Foundation

How much does Collins Family Foundation give?
Collins Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $169,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Collins Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (59%), Science & Tech (22%), Arts & Culture (6%).
Who are Collins Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation ($55k), University of Delaware ($45k), Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation ($20k).
Does Collins Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Collins Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Collins Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Burke Foundation Inc, Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc, Community Foundation of New Jersey.
Where is Collins Family Foundation based?
Collins Family Foundation is based in NJ.

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 49 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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