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Collins Family Heritage 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.

$59k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Animals$66kPublic Safety & Disaster$54kFood & Nutrition$49kHealth$40kEducation$23kScience & Tech$16kInternational$13kPhilanthropy$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
$2,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC$15,000
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY$15,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED$10,000
CHICAGO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$5,000
NAMI SARASOTA AND MANATEE COUNTIES INC$3,000
PETS FOR PATRIOTS INC$2,000
SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC$2,000
HOOVES WITH HEART INC$2,000
CHILDREN FIRST$2,000
CHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC$2,000
MISSION OF OUR LADY OF MERCY$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 (FY22–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $4k → 10%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $2k → 10%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $2k → 10%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $1k → 10%CENTER OF ANNA MARIA ISLAND: $5k → 10%NAMI SARASOTA AND MANATEE COUNTIES INC: $3k → 9%NAMI SARASOTA AND MANATEE COUNTIES INC: $2k → 9%NAMI SARASOTA AND MANATEE COUNTIES INC: $3k → 9%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.
$338k · 25 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
7

Total granted

$338k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+37%

Still filing today

80%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHealthHuman ServicesInternationalFood & NutritionCrime & LegalOther
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
    6× · 2020–2025 · $56k · revenue +21%
  • GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY
    7× · 2019–2025 · $49k · revenue +78%
  • Chicago Zoological Society
    7× · 2019–2025 · $33k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • AM
    ANNA MARIA ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +57%
  • OM
    ONE MISSION DISASTER RESPONSE
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
  • AT
    Addison Trail High School
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
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
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…

Animals
2
Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals
3
Paws Chicago

Paws chicago is a national leader in the no kill animal welfare movement, helping more than 23,842 homeless and at-risk pets each year through comprehensive spay/neuter, medical, and adoption programs.

Animals
4
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
5
Arizona Humane Society

We save the most vulnerable animals and enrich the lives of pets and people.

Animals
6
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
7
Washington Humane Society

The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…

Animals
8
Friends for Animals of Metro Detroit

The friends are dedicated to the rescue, protection, and adoption of companion animals in need while inspiring the human-animal bond. we meet our mission by:-saving 100% of healthy and treatable animals.-providing high-quality animal care…

Animals
9
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
10
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Tampa Bay Florida Inc

Spca tampa bay is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that operates pinellas county's only nonprofit for-all animal shelter assisting all animals in need, regardless of species or circumstance, at its 10-acre campus in largo. (continued on…

Animals
11
Lincoln Park Zoological Society

Lincoln park zoo is dedicated to connecting people with nature by providing a free, family-oriented wildlife experience in the heart of chicago and by advancing the highest quality of animal care, horticulture, education, science and…

Animals
12
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc; the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. 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

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 33 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
20/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $49,000 · Food & NutritionGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEP…ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC: $30,000 · Food & NutritionALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INCMONTINI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $22,000 · OtherMONTINI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIO…MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC: $16,000 · OtherMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INCHOOVES WITH HEART INC: $11,000 · OtherHOOVES WITH HEART INCNAMI Chicago: $8,500 · OtherNAMI ChicagoHARVEST TABERNACLE OF SARASOTA INC: $4,000 · OtherCHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC: $7,000 · OtherCHILD PROTECTION CENTER INCChildren First Inc: $6,000 · OtherChildren First IncA WALK ON WATER INC: $5,500 · OtherA WALK ON WATER INC+7 more: $13,000 · Other+7 moreChicago Zoological Society: $32,500 · AnimalsChicago Zoological S…WEST SUBURBAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $12,100 · AnimalsWEST SUBURBAN HUMANE…PETS FOR PATRIOTS INC: $11,500 · AnimalsPETS FOR PATRIOTS IN…ANIMALS DESERVING OF PROPER TREATMENT: $7,000 · AnimalsANIMALS DESERVING OF…HINSDALE HUMANE SOCIETY: $3,000 · AnimalsWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $55,500 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHE…RefuSHE Inc: $9,000 · InternationalRefuSHE IncSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $9,000 · Human ServicesNAMI SARASOTA AND MANATEE COUNTIES INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesSARASOTA FIREFIGHTER BENEVOLENT FUND INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesANNA MARIA ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER: $5,000 · Human ServicesAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $15,000 · HealthRESILIENT RETREAT INC: $2,000 · HealthGIFT OF HOPE ORGAN & TISSUE DONOR NETWORK: $2,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $1,000 · HealthTHE DUPAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $12,200 · Philanthropy
Food & Nutrition$79,000Other$93,000Animals$66,100International$64,500Human Services$28,000Health$20,000Philanthropy$12,200

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $55,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $49,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Zoological Society: $32,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DUPAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $12,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWEST SUBURBAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $12,100 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPETS FOR PATRIOTS INC: $11,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetRefuSHE Inc: $9,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI Chicago: $8,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNAMI SARASOTA AND MANATEE COUNTIES INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC: $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetANIMALS DESERVING OF PROPER TREATMENT: $7,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSARASOTA FIREFIGHTER BENEVOLENT FUND INC: $6,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetChildren First Inc: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetA WALK ON WATER INC: $5,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetANNA MARIA ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHINSDALE HUMANE SOCIETY: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRESILIENT RETREAT INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGIFT OF HOPE ORGAN & TISSUE DONOR NETWORK: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBy The Hand Club For Kids: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS 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 Community Foundat…William G and Marie S…Gulf Coast Community …AbbVie FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…The Chicago Community…Paypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co IncFL15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · William G and Marie Selby Foundation Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Chicago Community Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Family Heritage Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Collins Family Heritage Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Children First Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Child Protection Center Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Mote Marine Laboratory Inc: 4% of income from government
  • All Faiths Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Resilient Retreat Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.

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 33 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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