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Collins Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $98k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 47%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 20
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 47% of the organizations Collins Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $98k | 39% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $96k | 47% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $86k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $82k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $70k | 63% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $53k | 64% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $51k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attention Inc | $35,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Boulder Emergency Squad Inc | $25,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Tiny Tim Center Inc Dba Tlc Learning Center | $24,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Dental Aid | $21,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Bridge House | $20,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Wedontwaste Inc | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Ignite Adaptive Sports | $18,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Boulder Community Housing Corporation Inc | $17,500 | 3 | 4% |
| Child and Family Advocacy Program | $17,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Supplies for Success | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 53 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($20k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Collins Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation Boulder County · Colorado Gives Foundation · AEC Trust · The Denver Foundation · The Longmont Community Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Lynn & Helen N Clark Crt · The Edmund T & Eleanor Quick Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Ray Lanyon Fund · Rose Community Foundation · Duncan John G Tuw
How this is measured
About Collins Foundation
- How much does Collins Foundation give?
- Collins Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $98,450 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 20 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Collins Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (21%), Human Services (19%), Food & Nutrition (16%).
- Who are Collins Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Attention Inc ($35k), Boulder Emergency Squad Inc ($25k), Tiny Tim Center Inc Dba Tlc Learning Center ($24k).
- Does Collins Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Collins Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Collins Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation Boulder County, Colorado Gives Foundation, AEC Trust.
- Where is Collins Foundation based?
- Collins Foundation is based in MO.
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