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.

Where is Donald W Collier Charitable Trust II based?

Donald W Collier Charitable Trust II is based in IL.

Donald W Collier Charitable Trust II

Donald W Collier Charitable Trust II at a glance

· Private foundation

Donald W Collier Charitable Trust II

Q: 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.

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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$15k

Largest

01What it funds

0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$295kEnvironment$139kHealth$112kHuman Services$37kRecreation & Sports$32kCrime & Legal$23kEducation$16kInternational$12kOther$0

02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k39 grants · $36k
$10k–50k1 grant · $15k

$278

Median grant

States reached

$1.9M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
Individual grant recipient	$1,000
Goodman Theatre	$1,000
Sharp Healthcare Foundation	$1,000
Mammoth Hospital Foundation	$1,000
The Ryr-1 Foundation	$1,000
Individual grant recipient	$1,000
Mesa Arts Center Foundation	$500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$689k · 84 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

84 repeat relationships: 36 still active in FY2025, 48 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$689k

$43k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%

+25%

Still filing today

58%

52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHealthEnvironmentInternationalEducationHuman ServicesOther

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

MI
MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM
9× · 2017–2025 · $149k · revenue +84%
Earth Island Institute Inc
8× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +271%
TA
THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
9× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +45%

Funded once

NR
Northstar Reach Fun Camp
one grant, 2017 · $12k
CC
Carvin Cares
one grant, 2021 · $2k
CO
Center on Halstedgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +61%

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.

American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture

United States Naval Institute

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.

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American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech

University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

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…

Science & Tech

Society for Neuroscience

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…

Health

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

American Geophysical Union

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…

Science & Tech

The Adler Planetarium

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…

Arts & Culture

Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture

Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy

Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

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…

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Internet Society Foundation

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…

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Theatre Group Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

82 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. 82 of the 142 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

80/82

Grantees still filing

61/82

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$254,001Arts & Culture$211,704Environment$113,188Education$73,500Health$44,440Crime & Legal$24,200Human Services$14,468

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

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.

Jewish Community Foundation of Greater PhoenixAZ15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Donald W Collier Charitable Trust II funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Donald W Collier Charitable Trust II. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

19report 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home