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Eve & Simon Colin 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.

$495k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$330k
Largest
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Animals$504kReligion$464kRecreation & Sports$330kArts & Culture$136kEducation$54kPhilanthropy$30kCivil Rights$5kHuman Services$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $143k
  • $250k+1 grant · $330k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$6.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
USDAN SUMMER CAMP FOR THE ARTS$330,000
ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER$92,750
TEATRO NUOVO$50,000
BROWN ANNUAL FUND$10,000
THE JEWISH RECONSTRUCTION SOCIETY OF NS$5,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY (WSHU RADIO)$2,500
MINNESOTA JCC$1,000
HARLEM ACADEMY$1,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 74% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%MINNESOTA JCC: $1k → 14%THE JEWISH RECONSTRUCTION SOCIETY OF NS: $5k → 6%USDAN SUMMER CAMP FOR THE ARTS: $330k → 7%HARLEM ACADEMY: $3k → 17%ARCHIPELAGO BOOKS: $30k → 20%WFUV PUBLIC RADIO: $3k → 28%WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $50k → 7%SHU-WSHU: $3k → 9%BROWN ANNUAL FUND: $10k → 14%HARLEM ACADEMY: $1k → 17%WFUV PUBLIC RADIO: $3k → 28%SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY (WSHU RADIO): $3k → 9%BROWN ANNUAL FUND: $10k → 14%ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS INC: $25k → 17%BROWN ANNUAL FUND: $10k → 14%ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS INC: $25k → 17%TEATRO NUOVO: $50k → 17%TEATRO NUOVO: $1k → 17%ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $295k → 17%ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $93k → 17%ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $67k → 17%ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $50k → 17%92ND STREET Y: $342k → 17%92ND STREET Y: $61k → 17%92ND STREET Y: $60k → 17%POETS & WRITERS: $1k → 17%POETS & WRITERS: $1k → 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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 8 repeat orgs$421k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +9% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
3

Total granted

$1.1M
$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+7%

Still filing today

75%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $339k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationAnimalsReligionOther
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

  • TY
    THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $464k · revenue +18%
  • TA
    THE ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +28%
  • HA
    HARLEM ACADEMY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $4k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • WU
    WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -1%
  • AB
    ARCHIPELAGO BOOKS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue +7%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
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
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
2
Women's Project & Productions Inc

Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…

Arts & Culture
3
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
4
Masters School

The masters school celebrates active participation, deep understanding, and meaningful connection. a community of diverse individuals, we gather to learn, to strive, to dare, to do - to be a power for good in the world.

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5
Odyssey Writing Workshops Charitable Trust

To provide education, feedback, educational resources, and instructional support to writers of fantasy, science fiction, and horror to help them improve their work.

Arts & Culture
6
Lycee Francais De New York

"citizens of culture and courage"committed to bilingual french and american education of the highest standard, our mission is to prepare students of many origins to be thinkers, innovators and leaders, at home in the world. we inspire and…

Education
7
The Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts Inc

To offer accessible, high-quality performing arts education that sparks personal growth and builds inclusive communities. its vision is to transform performing arts education in an inclusive community accessible to all.

—
8
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…

Arts & Culture
9
San Francisco Opera Association

We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.

Arts & Culture
10
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
11
International Academy of Fine Art

The florence acadamy of art was founed in 1991 by daniel graves (see schedule o for details).

International
12
Ithaca College

Our mission is to educate, engage, and empower through theory, practice, and performance.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Academy of American Poets Inc; the most unlike its peers is Teatro Nuovo Inc. 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

9 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. 9 of the 15 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $503,750 · AnimalsTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTERTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $463,630 · ReligionTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S …USDAN SUMMER CAMP FOR THE ARTS: $330,000 · OtherUSDAN SUMMER CAMP FOR THE A…BROWN ANNUAL FUND: $30,000 · OtherBROWN ANNUAL FUND+5 more: $16,000 · OtherTeatro Nuovo Inc: $51,000 · Arts & CultureTeatro Nu…THE ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ACADE…ARCHIPELAGO BOOKS INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureARCHIPELA…+1 more: $2,000 · Arts & CultureWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationHARLEM ACADEMY: $3,500 · Education
Animals$503,750Religion$463,630Other$376,000Arts & Culture$133,000Education$53,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $503,750 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $463,630 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTeatro Nuovo Inc: $51,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARCHIPELAGO BOOKS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetHARLEM ACADEMY: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOETS AND WRITERS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO7.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 Eve & Simon Colin Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Eve & Simon Colin Foundation 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 15 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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