· Private foundation
Harry and Judith Collins 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
99% of Harry and Judith Collins Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Rancho Santa Fe Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year Harry and Judith Collins Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $182k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k10 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $48k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO | $100,000 |
| PROPEL FOUNDATION INC | $18,000 |
| MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT | $10,000 |
| RIDING EMPHASIZING INDIVIDUAL NEEDS AND STRENGTHS | $10,000 |
| RANCHO SANTA FE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION | $6,500 |
| AUTISM TREE PROJECT INC | $5,000 |
| TENDER LOVING CARE CANINE ASSISTANCE DOGS | $5,000 |
| SNOWMASS CHAPEL & COMMUNITY CENTER INC | $5,000 |
| BISHOP'S SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| ST BENEDICTS MONASTERY | $2,500 |
| COLORADO STATE UNIVERSTIY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| CALVERY ORPHAN OUTREACH MINISTRY | $2,000 |
| SEAN EDUARDO SANCHES SES TENNIS CENTER | $1,500 |
| JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $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 (FY18–21, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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.
5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2018, 2 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TSTHE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION2× · 2021–2022 · $1.0M · revenue -11%
- ZSZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO2× · 2018–2019 · $500k · revenue +28%
- CACHALLENGED ATHLETES INC2× · 2018–2021 · $17k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- QBQUAIL BOTANICAL GARDENS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $1.0M · revenue +12%
- PFPROPEL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $18k · revenue -55%
- RSRANCHO SANTA FE EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -62%
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 san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
To support and further the research, education and community service objectives of san diego state university.
Santa Barbara Education Foundation (SBEF) provides and supports programs that enrich the academic, artistic, and personal development of all students in the Santa Barbara Unified School District.
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
Conserving nature through science and discovery.
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
Provide counseling and scholarships to high school students which enables them to either become teachers in the san diego unified school district or to major in math and science fields.
The sacramento zoo inspires appreciation, respect and a connection with wildlife and nature through education, recreation and conservation.
To support the social, recreational, cultural and education programs and facilities, both on campus and in the community, and to advocate for student interests, provide leadership opportunities and participate in shared governance.
To improve the quality of life of communities throughout the city of San Diego through equitable investments in parks, greenspace, and recreational opportunities.Vison - Every San Diegan has access to quality recreational facilities as…
Mission: the mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community partnerships, and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as…
A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rancho Santa Fe Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 20 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 RANCHO SANTA FE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds QUAIL BOTANICAL GARDENS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds PROPEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds RANCHO SANTA FE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Riding Emphasizing Individual Needs & Strengths ↗
- Who funds MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds AUTISM TREE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Sean Eduardo Sanchez SES Tennis Center ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
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: Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Harry and Judith Collins Foundation 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.
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.
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