· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| RIDING EMPHASIZING INDIVIDUAL NEEDS AND STRENGTHS | $10,000 |
| MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT | $10,000 |
| RANCHO SANTA FE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION | $6,500 |
| SNOWMASS CHAPEL & COMMUNITY CENTER INC | $5,000 |
| AUTISM TREE PROJECT INC | $5,000 |
| TENDER LOVING CARE CANINE ASSISTANCE DOGS | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 +35%
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Riding Emphasizing Individual Needs & Strengths ↗
- Who funds AUTISM TREE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Sean Eduardo Sanchez SES Tennis Center ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Harry and Judith Collins Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harry and Judith Collins Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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