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Collins Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$98k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$8k
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, FY2019 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$115kHuman Services$102kFood & Nutrition$85kHealth$61kAnimals$41kCrime & Legal$30kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kRecreation & Sports$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOMEAHEAD$7,500
BOULDER COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION IN$7,500
SUPPLIES FOR SUCCESS$7,500
CHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCACY PROGRAM$7,000
BOULDER FOOD RESCUE$6,000
LONGMONT MEALS ON WHEELS INC$6,000
ATTENTION INC$6,000
COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC$5,500
FORWARD STEPS FOUNDATION$5,000
HARVEST OF HOPE PANTRY$5,000
A PRECIOUS CHILD INC$5,000
COLORADO PET PANTRY$5,000
THERE WITH CARE$5,000
IGNITE ADAPTIVE SPORTS$5,000
LONGMONT HUMANE SOCIETY INC$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $108k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%A PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $5k → 5%RAY OF HOPE CANCER FOUNDATION: $6k → 12%SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $6k → 12%SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $5k → 12%RAY OF HOPE CANCER FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%TRU COMMUNITY CARE: $4k → 12%PARADOX SPORTS: $2k → 12%ATTENTION INC: $6k → 12%ATTENTION INC: $6k → 12%ATTENTION INC: $6k → 12%ATTENTION INC: $5k → 12%SAFEHOUSE PROG ALLIANCE FOR NON VIOLENC: $5k → 12%ATTENTION INC: $5k → 12%BRIDGE HOUSE: $10k → 12%ATTENTION INC: $4k → 12%BRIDGE HOUSE: $5k → 12%ATTENTION INC: $4k → 12%BRIDGE HOUSE: $5k → 12%THERE WITH CARE: $6k → 12%THERE WITH CARE: $5k → 12%VIA MOBILITY SERVICES: $4k → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$412k · 29 repeat orgs$123k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
22

Total granted

$412k
$90k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+15%

Still filing today

93%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesAnimalsFood & NutritionHealthArts & CultureEducationOther
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

  • AI
    ATTENTION INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $35k · revenue +105%
  • BE
    BOULDER EMERGENCY SQUAD INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $25k · revenue +10%
  • TT
    TINY TIM CENTER INC DBA TLC LEARNING CENTER
    5× · 2020–2024 · $24k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • GG
    GROWING GARDENS OF BOULDER COUNTY
    one grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue +24%
  • VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECTgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue +39%
  • IH
    I Have A Dream Foundation Of Boulder County
    one grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue 0%
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
Boulder Carshare

To provide and promote alternatives to individual car ownership, thereby reducing the environmental and social impacts associated with motor vehicle use.

Environment
2
Boulder Bike Sharing

Promote health, quality of life and preservation of the environment in boulder, colorado by building and operating a comprehensive city-wide bike sharing

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3
Meals On Wheels of Boulder Inc

The mission of meals on wheels is to provide nutritious meals to residents of the community who need and want their services, regardless of age or income.

Food & Nutrition
4
Colorado Food Cluster Inc

Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.

Food & Nutrition
5
Emergency Family Assistance Association

Efaa helps those in our community whose immediate needs for food, shelter, and other basic necessities cannot adequately be met by other means, and supports their efforts toward financial stability and self sufficiency.

Human Services
6
Homeward Pikes Peak

Homeward Pikes Peak empowers individuals and families to access stable housing, increase mental health, recovery, and economic stability.

Housing & Shelter
7
Colorado Homeless Families Inc

CHF assists working families in their quest to go from homelessness to self-sufficiency for life.

Housing & Shelter
8
Boulder Watershed Collective

The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…

Environment
9
Boulder County Aids Project

Bcap's mission is to provide support, advocacy and education to those in our community who are living with or affected by hiv, and to serve as an outreach and information center to prevent the further transmission of hiv.

Health
10
Colorado Animal Rescue Inc

C.A.R.E's mission is practicing excellence in the animal care, education, and advocacy to connect pets to their people.

Animals
11
Boulder County Injured and Fallen Officer Foundation
Public Safety & Disaster
12
Streets Hope

Street's Hope provides direct services to human trafficking survivors in Colorado. Services including housing assisstance, housing support and a range of behavioral health services.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boulder Shelter for the Homeless Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mother House Dba Haven Ridge. 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

52 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. 52 of the 58 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/52
Grantees still filing
37/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ATTENTION INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesATTENTION INCBridge House: $20,000 · Human ServicesBridge HouseIGNITE ADAPTIVE SPORTS: $18,000 · Human ServicesIGNITE ADAPTIVE SPORTSRAY OF HOPE CANCER FOUNDATION: $11,000 · Human ServicesRAY OF HOPE CANCER FOUNDATIO…THERE WITH CARE: $11,000 · Human ServicesTHERE WITH CARESISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesSISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENT…Forward Steps Foundation: $10,000 · Human ServicesForward Steps FoundationSAFEHOUSE PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE FOR NONVIOLENCE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesA PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $5,000 · Human Services+3 more: $10,000 · Human Services+3 moreSUPPLIES FOR SUCCESS: $15,000 · OtherSUPPLIES FOR SUCCESSLONGMONT MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $12,000 · OtherLONGMONT MEALS ON WHEELS INCMOTHER HOUSE DBA HAVEN RIDGE: $12,000 · OtherMOTHER HOUSE DBA HAVEN RIDGEST BENEDICT HEALTH AND HEALING MINISTRY: $10,000 · OtherSAFE SHELTER OF ST VRAIN VALLEY: $8,000 · OtherBOULDER EMERGENCY SQUAD INC: $25,000 · OtherBOULDER EMERGENCY SQUAD INCBOULDER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $10,000 · OtherAUDIO INFORMATION NETWORK OF COLORA: $7,000 · OtherCHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCACY PROGRAM: $17,000 · OtherCHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCACY PROGRAMVOICES FOR CHILDREN INC: $12,500 · OtherVOICES FOR CHILDREN INCJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC: $12,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INCGROWING GARDENS OF BOULDER COUNTY: $7,500 · Other+11 more: $40,950 · Other+11 moreWEDONTWASTE INC: $20,000 · Food & NutritionWEDONTWASTE I…DENVER FOOD RESCUE: $12,500 · Food & NutritionDENVER FOOD R…COLORADO FRIENDSHIP INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionCOLORADO FRIE…COAL CREEK MEALS ON WHEELS: $5,500 · Food & NutritionCOAL CREEK ME…COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC: $5,500 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY FOO…BOULDER FOOD RESCUE: $5,000 · Food & NutritionBOULDER FOOD …HARVEST OF HOPE PANTRY: $5,000 · Food & NutritionHARVEST OF HO…LONGMONT HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $12,000 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BOULDER VALLEY INC: $10,000 · AnimalsCOLORADO PET PANTRY: $8,000 · AnimalsANIMAL RESCUE OF THE ROCKIES: $3,000 · AnimalsFRONT RANGE FREEDOM RESCUE INC: $3,000 · AnimalsGREENWOOD WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER: $3,000 · AnimalsBRIGHTER DAYS DOG RESCUE: $2,000 · AnimalsBoulder Community Housing Corporation Inc: $17,500 · Housing & ShelterBOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterHomeAhead: $7,500 · Housing & ShelterTINY TIM CENTER INC DBA TLC LEARNING CENTER: $24,000 · EducationI Have A Dream Foundation Of Boulder County: $6,000 · EducationTEACHING PEACE INC: $5,000 · EducationDENTAL AID: $21,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $5,000 · HealthRise Against Suicide: $5,000 · Health
Human Services$136,000Other$188,950Food & Nutrition$63,500Animals$41,000Housing & Shelter$40,000Education$35,000Health$31,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetATTENTION INC: $35,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBOULDER EMERGENCY SQUAD INC: $25,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetTINY TIM CENTER INC DBA TLC LEARNING CENTER: $24,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDENTAL AID: $21,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBridge House: $20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWEDONTWASTE INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetIGNITE ADAPTIVE SPORTS: $18,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBoulder Community Housing Corporation Inc: $17,500 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCACY PROGRAM: $17,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER FOOD RESCUE: $12,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN INC: $12,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetLONGMONT MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLONGMONT HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMOTHER HOUSE DBA HAVEN RIDGE: $12,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRAY OF HOPE CANCER FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHERE WITH CARE: $11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOULDER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $10,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BOULDER VALLEY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetForward Steps Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCOLORADO FRIENDSHIP INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCOLORADO PET PANTRY: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAFE SHELTER OF ST VRAIN VALLEY: $8,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGROWING GARDENS OF BOULDER COUNTY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHomeAhead: $7,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAUDIO INFORMATION NETWORK OF COLORA: $7,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetI Have A Dream Foundation Of Boulder County: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOAL CREEK MEALS ON WHEELS: $5,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEACHING PEACE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSAFEHOUSE PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE FOR NONVIOLENCE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRAVEHOODS: $5,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA BOULDER COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOULDER FOOD RESCUE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRise Against Suicide: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGROWE FOUNDATION: $4,450 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetVia Mobility Services: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRU COMMUNITY CARE: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTARA INSTITUTE OF THE PERFORMING ARTS: $3,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE OF THE ROCKIES: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPARADOX SPORTS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBRIGHTER DAYS DOG RESCUE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY CYCLES CO BOULDER COMMUNITY CYCLES: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 …Colorado Gives Founda…AEC TrustThe Denver FoundationThe Longmont Communit…Anschutz Family Found…Lynn & Helen N Clark …The Edmund T & Eleano…The Colorado Health F…Ray Lanyon FundRose Community Founda…Duncan John G Tuw
Community Foundation Boulder CountyCO65.7× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Collins Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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 58 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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