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Mary Sue Collins Foundation U/A Dated 1/28/2013

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$348k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2025
18
Organizations funded FY2024
6%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,531
Largest grant, FY2025
$94,031
Organizations funded a year
18 to 21
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$7.5M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Mary Sue Collins Foundation U/A Dated 1/28/2013 funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving18$299k6%
FY202418$271k6%
FY202320$217k0%
FY202220$245k5%
FY202119$241k0%
FY202020$210k5%
FY201921$203kn/a
80% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$789kHuman Services$382kInternational$239kReligion$56kAnimals$40kHousing & Shelter$38kFood & Nutrition$31kRecreation & Sports$31kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
UT
MO
VA
MD
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 14 grantees
All grantees of Mary Sue Collins Foundation U/A Dated 1/28/2013 by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Roanoke College$515,61970%
The Rescue Mission of Roanoke Inc$244,35071%
Childfund International USA$138,05770%
Local Office on Aging$107,51471%
United States Fund for Unicef$30,54470%
Oxfam-America Inc$30,54470%
National D-Day Memorial Foundation$30,54370%
Feeding Southwest Virginia$30,54370%
Best Friends Animal Society$30,54370%
Tri-River Habitat for Humanity Inc$30,543734%
Kimoyo Ltd$20,00056%
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc$20,00050%
Covenant House$7,37520%
Alley Cat Allies Inc$3,62510%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($446k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Mary Sue Collins Foundation U/A Dated 1/28/2013 supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRoanoke College: $515,619 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Rescue Mission of Roanoke Inc: $244,350 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetChildfund International USA: $138,057 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLocal Office on Aging: $107,514 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $30,544 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOxfam-America Inc: $30,544 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNational D-Day Memorial Foundation: $30,543 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding Southwest Virginia: $30,543 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBest Friends Animal Society: $30,543 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTri-River Habitat for Humanity Inc: $30,543 over 7y, 34% of budgetKimoyo Ltd: $20,000 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetCooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc: $20,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCovenant House: $7,375 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlley Cat Allies Inc: $3,625 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Mary Sue Collins Foundation U/A Dated 1/28/2013

How much does Mary Sue Collins Foundation U/A Dated 1/28/2013 give?
Mary Sue Collins Foundation U/A Dated 1/28/2013 reported 19 grants totaling $348,465 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 21 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Mary Sue Collins Foundation U/A Dated 1/28/2013 fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (41%), Human Services (20%), International (12%).
Who are Mary Sue Collins Foundation U/A Dated 1/28/2013's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Roanoke College ($516k), The Rescue Mission of Roanoke Inc ($244k), Childfund International USA ($138k).
Does Mary Sue Collins Foundation U/A Dated 1/28/2013 fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mary Sue Collins Foundation U/A Dated 1/28/2013 accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Mary Sue Collins Foundation U/A Dated 1/28/2013?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Mary Sue Collins Foundation U/A Dated 1/28/2013 based?
Mary Sue Collins Foundation U/A Dated 1/28/2013 is based in VA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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