· Private foundation
James M Collins Foundation
Its FY2019 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k34 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $329k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $185k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FROST SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $75,000 |
| THE PARK SCHOOL | $60,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $50,000 |
| PHILLIPS ACADEMY | $40,000 |
| PBS | $39,750 |
| UT SOUTHWESTERN | $35,150 |
| ST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $27,500 |
| FRIENDS OF FLORENCE | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | $24,000 |
| CONTEMPORARY ARTS MUSEUM OF HOUSTON | $20,000 |
| WELLESLEY COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $19,600 |
| UNITED WAY | $15,000 |
| GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF DALLAS | $15,000 |
| FAMILY PLACE | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–19, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% 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 +63% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
58 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2019, 15 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k 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
- UOUniversity of Miami3× · 2017–2019 · $190k · revenue +96%
- FOFriends of Florence3× · 2017–2019 · $159k · revenue +7%
- GIGoodwill Industries of Dallas Inc3× · 2017–2019 · $125k · revenue +135%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $32k
- UEUPLIFT EDUCATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +75%
- AAASPEN ART MUSEUMone grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue -49%
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
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,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mission Getting to Next Inc. 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 48 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
62 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. 62 of the 116 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 University of Miami ↗
- Who funds Friends of Florence ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds Goodwill Industries of Dallas Inc ↗
- Who funds PARK SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Contemporary Arts Museum Houston ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON VOICE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds UPLIFT EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Amigos de las Americas ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF THE AMERICAS ↗
- Who funds The Family Place ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LifeFlight of Maine LLC ↗
- Who funds ISLESBORO COMMUNITY FUND ↗
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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · The Perot Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Harry Bass Foundation · Theodore and Beulah Beasley Foundation Inc · The Addy Foundation · Ruth C and Charles S Sharp Foundation Inc · Palace Head Foundation Inc · The Jockey Hollow 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 James M 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Handel and Haydn Society — 2% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% 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.