How much does Joanne and Frank Collins Charitable Foundation give?

Joanne and Frank Collins Charitable Foundation reported 49 grants totaling $23,830 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 42 and 64 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Joanne and Frank Collins Charitable Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (34%), Health (15%), Arts & Culture (13%).

Who are Joanne and Frank Collins Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Tatler Historic Preservation Foundation ($7k), University at Buffalo Foundation Inc ($6k), Artpark & Company Inc ($3k).

Does Joanne and Frank Collins Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Joanne and Frank Collins Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Joanne and Frank Collins Charitable Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, Grigg-Lewis Foundation Inc, Tower Family Fund Inc.

Where is Joanne and Frank Collins Charitable Foundation based?

Joanne and Frank Collins Charitable Foundation is based in NY.

Joanne and Frank Collins Charitable Foundation

Joanne and Frank Collins Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Joanne and Frank Collins Charitable 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.

$24k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$7k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$49kHealth$22kArts & Culture$19kEducation$15kHuman Services$10kAnimals$7kFood & Nutrition$5kYouth Development$4kOther$0

02FY2025 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$300

Median grant

States reached

$453k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH	$6,800
TATLER HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC	$1,000
UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO FOUNDATION	$1,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL	$1,000
CALVARY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH	$1,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ROCHESTER NY INC	$510
CASWELL FOR KIDS INC	$500
NIAGARA GOSPEL RESCUE MISSION	$500
LOCKPORT FAMILY YMCA	$500
OPEN DOOR MISSION INC	$500
AQUARIUM OF NIAGARA	$500
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION	$500
ALGONQUIN CAMPERSHIP FUND	$500
COMMUNITY MISSIONS NIAGARA FALLS	$500
Individual grant recipient	$500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$135k · 72 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

72 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$135k

$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%

+14%

Still filing today

54%

55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthAnimalsArts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther

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

UA
University at Buffalo Foundation Inc
4× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +180%
ARTPARK & COMPANY INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $3k · revenue +398%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $2k · revenue +78%

Funded once

UO
UNIV OF BUFFALO COLLEGE ARTS A
one grant, 2022 · $2k
KALEIDA HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +35%
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2021 · $300

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.

Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

The Adirondack Council Inc

The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…

Environment

Nassau Suffolk Hospital Council Inc

& part iii, line 1: the mission of the nassau-suffolk hospital council, inc. (nshc) is to:- provide a forum for the exchange of ideas regarding the development of regional, state, and national health policy,- identify key policy issues…

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Thompson Park Conservancy Inc

Zoo new york, by example and action, provides knowledge and motivation for conserving nature in new york state through science-based natural and cultural experiences.

Arts & Culture

Rochester General Health System

Rochester general health system, provides patient care, senior housing, laboratory services, and community outreach to residents and other clients in monroe county, new york and several surrounding counties.

Health

New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment

Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Metro New York and Western New York; the most unlike its peers is Tatler Historic Preservation Foundation. 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

63 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. 63 of the 111 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

62/63

Grantees still filing

39/63

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$102,360Health$10,210Education$9,750Arts & Culture$7,680Animals$6,160Human Services$5,778Environment$2,350

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.

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.

Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo IncNY37.4× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Grigg-Lewis Foundation Inc · Tower Family Fund Inc · The Baird Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · ELSIE P AND LUCIUS B McCOWAN PRIVATE FOUNDATION · The Osc Charitable Foundation · E&W G Foundation · The John R Oishei Foundation · Buffalo-Erie Marathon Association Inc · East Hill Foundation

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 Joanne and Frank Collins Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joanne and Frank Collins Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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.

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