· Private foundation
James M Collins Foundation
Its FY2019 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| WELLESLEY COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| CONTEMPORARY ARTS MUSEUM OF HOUSTON | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $19,600 |
| FAMILY PLACE | $15,000 |
| GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF DALLAS | $15,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $15,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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 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,…
How this is measured
62 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. 62 of the 116 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 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 Contemporary Arts Museum Houston ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization James M Collins Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James M Collins Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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