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Collins McDonald Trust Fund at a glance

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Collins McDonald Trust Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$655k
Granted FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$2.5MHealth$540kPublic Safety & Disaster$465kPublic Benefit$153kRecreation & Sports$150kCrime & Legal$35kCommunity Improvement$30kArts & Culture$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $71k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $284k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $300k
$11,400
Median grant
1
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAKE DISTRICT HOSPITAL - LHD$200,000
ROTARY CLUB OF LAKEVIEW OREGON$100,000
Individual grant recipient$11,400
Individual grant recipient$11,400
Individual grant recipient$11,400
Individual grant recipient$11,400
Individual grant recipient$11,400
Individual grant recipient$11,400
Individual grant recipient$11,400
Individual grant recipient$11,400
Individual grant recipient$11,400
Individual grant recipient$11,400
Individual grant recipient$11,400
Individual grant recipient$11,400
Individual grant recipient$11,400
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 20%. 0% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 20%LAKE COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT: $35k → 8%SILVER LAKE FIRE DEPARTMENT: $100k → 17%LAKE COUNTY K9 PROGRAM: $30k → 8%GRANTS: $411k → 17%GRANTS: $350k → 17%SCHOLARSHIPS: $346k → 17%LAKE HEALTH DISTRICT: $340k → 17%SCHOLARSHIPS: $291k → 17%SCHOLARSHIPS: $258k → 17%SCHOLARSHIPS: $253k → 17%GRANTS: $252k → 17%SCHOLARSHIPS: $234k → 17%LAKEVIEW DISASTER UNIT: $205k → 17%LAKE DISTRICT HOSPITAL - LHD: $200k → 17%FRIENDS OF LAKE COUNTY FAIR & ROUND UP: $153k → 17%GRANTS: $147k → 17%GRANTS: $127k → 17%ROTARY CLUB OF LAKEVIEW OREGON: $100k → 17%THOMAS CREEKWESTSIDE RURAL FIRE: $90k → 17%SCHOLARSHIPS: $51k → 17%GRANTS: $45k → 17%LAKE COUNTY LIBRARY ENDOWMENT FUND: $35k → 17%LAKEVIEW COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP: $30k → 17%CAMP COTTONWOOD: $25k → 17%FREMONT HIGHLANDERS SKI CLUB: $25k → 17%WESTSIDE GRANGE #854: $24k → 17%LAKE COUNTY EXTENSION: $20k → 17%NORTH LAKE COUNTY EMERGENCY: $20k → 17%REBEKAH PATZKE: $11k → 17%ELIZABETH PATIA: $11k → 17%LAURA PATLA: $11k → 17%NOAH ROTH: $11k → 17%BENNY ALVES: $11k → 17%KARLEE VICKERMAN: $11k → 17%KAIDEN WARDEN: $11k → 17%RILEY STUBBS: $11k → 17%SAVANNAH GREENFIELD: $11k → 17%RILEY NEWBILL: $11k → 17%LUKE PAOLONE: $11k → 17%MADISON DUARTE: $11k → 17%BRANDON MARKUS: $11k → 17%ADRIAN STUBBS: $11k → 17%KENNA STRATTON: $11k → 17%SHELBEY THORP: $11k → 17%HANNAH MAIELUA: $11k → 17%JILIAN RUDOLF: $11k → 17%NATALIA LAMAS-VOTTA: $11k → 17%PAISLEY DISASTER UNIT: $50k → 17%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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 40 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

40 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
40

Total granted

$3.5M
$1.4M

Still filing today

0%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $393k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementHealthEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    6× · 2017–2022 · $1.4M
  • G
    GRANTS
    6× · 2017–2022 · $1.3M
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2023–2025 · $32k

Funded once

  • LH
    LAKE HEALTH DISTRICT
    one grant, 2023 · $340k
  • LD
    LAKEVIEW DISASTER UNIT INC
    one grant, 2023 · $205k · revenue -97% · 95% of their budget
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE LAKE COUNTY FAIR & ROUNDUP
    one grant, 2023 · $153k
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
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 93 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
3/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $1,432,512 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGRANTS: $1,332,234 · OtherGRANTSLAKE HEALTH DISTRICT: $340,000 · OtherLAKE HEALTH DISTRICTLAKE DISTRICT HOSPITAL - LHD: $200,000 · Other+84 more: $1,733,574 · Other+84 moreLAKEVIEW DISASTER UNIT INC: $205,200 · HealthLAKEVIEW COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP: $30,000 · Community ImprovementFriends of Lakeview Community Pool: $4,900 · Community ImprovementFREMONT HIGHLANDERS SKI CLUB: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsLAKE COUNTY RESOURCE INITIATIVE: $1,600 · Environment
Other$5,038,320Health$205,200Community Improvement$34,900Recreation & Sports$25,000Environment$1,600

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLAKEVIEW DISASTER UNIT INC: $205,200 over 1y, 95% of budgetPAISLEY DISASTER UNIT: $50,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetLAKEVIEW COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP: $30,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetFREMONT HIGHLANDERS SKI CLUB: $25,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetFriends of Lakeview Community Pool: $4,900 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetLAKE COUNTY RESOURCE INITIATIVE: $1,600 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.

  • Who funds LAKEVIEW DISASTER UNIT INC ↗
  • Who funds PAISLEY DISASTER UNIT ↗
  • Who funds LAKEVIEW COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds FREMONT HIGHLANDERS SKI CLUB ↗

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 Ford Family Found…The Oregon Community …
The Ford Family FoundationOR13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ford Family Foundation · The Oregon Community 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 McDonald Trust Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Collins McDonald Trust Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 48%
  • Lake County Resource Initiative: 48% of income from government
  • Lakeview Community Partnership: 41% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Collins McDonald Trust Fund?

Find your warmest path to Collins McDonald Trust Fund 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.

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 93 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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