· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k39 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Musical Instrument Museum | $15,000 |
| Wheelchair Foundation | $9,708 |
| Earth Island Institute | $5,000 |
| Disabled Sports Eastern Sierra | $3,000 |
| Chicago Symphony Orchestra | $2,637 |
| Save th Family Arizona | $2,300 |
| Feldman Family Foundation | $1,236 |
| Phoenix Childrens Hospital | $1,000 |
| Goodman Theatre | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| The Ryr-1 Foundation | $1,000 |
| Mammoth Hospital Foundation | $1,000 |
| Sharp Healthcare Foundation | $1,000 |
| MDA Wings Over Wall Street | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
85 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 49 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MIMUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM9× · 2017–2025 · $149k · revenue +84%
Earth Island Institute Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +271%- BNBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $28k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- NRNorthstar Reach Fun Campone grant, 2017 · $12k
- CCCarvin Caresone grant, 2021 · $2k
- OAODYSEA AQUARIUM FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +4%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…
Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Agu's mission is to advance and support an inclusive community of earth and space scientists and partners dedicated to discovery and solutions to societal challenges. agu seeks to catalyze discovery and solutions to scientific and societal…
The adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Theatre Group Inc and the most unlike its peers is Feldman Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 31% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
82 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 82 of the 143 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds JOHN HOWARD ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ACCESS MAMMOTH ↗
- Who funds THE ACCESS FUND ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE WASTESHED ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds The Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation) ↗
- Who funds SCOTTSDALE LEAGUE FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds PEACE OVER VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds SCOTTSDALE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Hospice of the Valley ↗
- Who funds THE CAUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAMMOTH LAKES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Chest Foundation ↗
- Who funds Chicago Architecture Foundation ↗
- Who funds Pumping Station One NFP ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds CHOSA INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC WHALE FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Donald W Collier Charitable Trust II 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.
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc — 3% of income from government
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 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.