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· Private foundation
COLLINS FISHER FOUNDATION
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$221k
Granted FY2021
17
Grants
6
Communities
$150k
Largest
01What you fund
0183% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2021.
Arts & Culture$550kPhilanthropy$298kEducation$63kHuman Services$21kPublic Safety & Disaster$8kOther$196k
02FY2021 · 17 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k14 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
$4,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
- AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE$150,000
- SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION$10,000
- BAYLOR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION$10,000
- UPLIFT EDUCATION$8,500
- THE FAMILY PLACE$8,000
- BEHIND EVERY DOOR$6,600
- THE HOCKADAY SCHOOL$5,500
- THE THOMAS DYE SCHOOL$5,000
- SOUTHWEST MEDICAL FOUNDATION$4,000
- SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY$3,000
- YALE CLUB OF DALLAS$3,000
- CIRCLE OF CHILDREN PRESCHOOL$3,000
- HARVARD UNIVERSITY$1,000
- SAINT ALBANS SCHOOL$1,000
- WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL$1,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY19–21, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 21 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else
21 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2021, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
21
8
Total granted
$1.1M
$9k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+35%
+223%
Still filing today
33%
25%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationPhilanthropyArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterHuman ServicesOther
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
- AFAMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE5× · 2017–2021 · $550k · revenue +20%
COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS4× · 2017–2020 · $297k · revenue +63%- UEUPLIFT EDUCATION5× · 2017–2021 · $26k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- DCDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERone grant, 2017 · $3k
- TCTHE CARY COUNCILone grant, 2017 · $3k
- SASALVATION ARMYone grant, 2020 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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The McCombs School of Business
To provide support to The University of Texas McCombs School of Business.
Education
2
San Francisco Friends School
Educating, inspiring, & nurturing girls & boys in the tradition of quaker learning.
Education
3
The University of Texas Law School
Provide support to the University of Texas School of Law.
Education
4
Wake Forest University
Wake Forest University is an institution of higher education dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. It operates Wake Forest College, a graduate school of arts and sciences, a…
Education
5
University of Dallas
The university of dallas is dedicated to the pursuit of wisdom, of truth, and of virtue as the proper and primary ends of education. the university seeks to educate its students so they may develop the intellectual and moral virtues,…
Education
6
Bosque School
Bosque School is a coeducational college preparatory school creating transformative learning experiences that empower a diverse community of students to lead lives of intellectual curiosity, personal integrity, and compassionate…
Education
7
Washington University
The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)
Education
8
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest College is a National Residential Liberal Arts College, accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.
Education
9
San Francisco University High School
San francisco university high school welcomes students (continued on schedule o)
Education
10
Washington School Principals Education
Support k-12 education for pupils and professional development to principals in wa state.
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Furman University
Furman university is an institution of higher education providing distinctive undergraduate education emphasizing an engaged approach combining classroom learning with real world experiences and self-discovery.
Education
12
The Collegiate School
See schedule o to create a diverse and inclusive community of learners committed to a challenging and supportive educational experience that will foster the intellectual, moral, emotional, and physical development of each student.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jefferson Scholars Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hockaday School. 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, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Arts & Culture$550,000Philanthropy$297,500Other$195,890Education$63,400Human Services$21,250Public Safety & Disaster$7,500
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 AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds UPLIFT EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds THE HOCKADAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY PLACE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation COLLINS FISHER 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~3 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 526072925 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 0% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Collins Fisher Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Collins Fisher Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines