Minnesota · Private foundation
Paul & Mary Collins Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $37k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,393
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,575
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $885k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Paul & Mary Collins Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 19 | $36k | 21% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $35k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $43k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $43k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $39k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $36k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $42k | 16% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $34k | 25% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dordt University | $31,170 | 9 | 0% |
| Northwestern College | $22,403 | 9 | 0% |
| University of Sioux Falls | $16,675 | 7 | 0% |
| Morningside University | $11,045 | 6 | 0% |
| Augustana University Association | $8,660 | 7 | 0% |
| Grand Canyon University | $5,375 | 3 | 0% |
| Illinois College of Optometry | $5,153 | 4 | 0% |
| Colorado Christian University | $4,175 | 3 | 0% |
| Pacific University | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Drake University | $2,710 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dordt University | $31,170 | 9 | 0% |
| Northwestern College | $22,403 | 9 | 0% |
| University of Sioux Falls | $16,675 | 7 | 0% |
| Morningside University | $11,045 | 6 | 0% |
| Augustana University Association | $8,660 | 7 | 0% |
| Grand Canyon University | $5,375 | 3 | 0% |
| Illinois College of Optometry | $5,153 | 4 | 0% |
| Colorado Christian University | $4,175 | 3 | 0% |
| Pacific University | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Drake University | $2,710 | 2 | 0% |
| St Ambrose University | $2,050 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Indianapolis | $1,650 | 2 | 0% |
| Buena Vista University | $1,400 | 2 | 0% |
| The Western Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church in America | $910 | 1 | n/a |
| Briar Cliff University | $875 | 1 | 0% |
| Baylor University | $610 | 1 | 0% |
| Concordia University St Paul | $550 | 1 | 0% |
| Upper Iowa University | $525 | 1 | 0% |
| Bethel University | $450 | 1 | 0% |
| Creighton University | $50 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($225k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Paul & Mary Collins Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: La Amundson Ohana Foundation · Louis J Elbert Trust · Bernice E Peterson Scholarship Trust · Joseph J Sinek Scholarship Trust · Mahana-Cong Church Scholar Found · Willard E and Ella P Thompson Educational Fund · Roy J Carver Charitable Trust · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Baird Foundation Inc · James J & Mildred M Postma Scholarship Fund · Meyerhoff Charitable Trust
How this is measured
About Paul & Mary Collins Trust
- How much does Paul & Mary Collins Trust give?
- Paul & Mary Collins Trust reported 20 grants totaling $36,615 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Paul & Mary Collins Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (99%), Religion (1%).
- Who are Paul & Mary Collins Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Dordt University ($31k), Northwestern College ($22k), University of Sioux Falls ($17k).
- Does Paul & Mary Collins Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Paul & Mary Collins Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Paul & Mary Collins Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include La Amundson Ohana Foundation, Louis J Elbert Trust, Bernice E Peterson Scholarship Trust.
- Where is Paul & Mary Collins Trust based?
- Paul & Mary Collins Trust is based in MN.
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