Illinois · Private foundation
Donald W Collier Charitable Trust II
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.
- $51k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 40
- Grants FY2025
- 50
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $278
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 49 to 65
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Donald W Collier Charitable Trust II funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 | 40 | $51k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 50 | $43k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $56k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 62 | $50k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 58 | $78k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 65 | $106k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 62 | $110k | 16% |
| FY2018 | 64 | $118k | 20% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Musical Instrument Museum | $149,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Earth Island Institute Inc | $105,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Art Institute of Chicago | $41,420 | 9 | 0% |
| Barrow Neurological Foundation | $28,190 | 7 | 0% |
| Chicago Symphony Orchestra | $27,892 | 9 | 0% |
| John Howard Association | $23,300 | 6 | 1% |
| Access Mammoth | $20,700 | 9 | 0% |
| The Access Fund | $16,956 | 9 | 0% |
| Chicago Theatre Group Inc | $11,886 | 9 | 0% |
| Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc | $9,580 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 84 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 58 recipients with no EIN on record ($162k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Donald W Collier Charitable Trust II supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 76 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Annenberg Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Donald W Collier Charitable Trust II with peer funders
About Donald W Collier Charitable Trust II
- How much does Donald W Collier Charitable Trust II give?
- Donald W Collier Charitable Trust II reported 40 grants totaling $50,775 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 49 and 65 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Donald W Collier Charitable Trust II fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (40%), Environment (19%), Health (15%).
- Who are Donald W Collier Charitable Trust II's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Musical Instrument Museum ($149k), Earth Island Institute Inc ($105k), The Art Institute of Chicago ($41k).
- Does Donald W Collier Charitable Trust II fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Donald W Collier Charitable Trust II accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Donald W Collier Charitable Trust II?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix, Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation.
- Where is Donald W Collier Charitable Trust II based?
- Donald W Collier Charitable Trust II is based in IL.
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