· Private foundation
Paul & Mary Collins Trust
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY | $7,575 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA | $3,643 |
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY | $3,225 |
| DORDT UNIVERSITY | $3,100 |
| NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE | $3,043 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS | $3,025 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA | $1,700 |
| MORNINGSIDE COLLEGE | $1,650 |
| SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES & TECH | $1,393 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA | $1,393 |
| ILLINOIS COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY | $1,393 |
| COLORADO CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $900 |
| IOWA LAKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $750 |
| DMACC | $750 |
| NORTHERN STATE UNIVERSITY | $750 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 61% of your 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 +26% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
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
- DUDORDT UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $31k · revenue +66%
- NCNORTHWESTERN COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $22k · revenue +26%
- MUMORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- TCTOURO COLLEGE OF MEDICINEone grant, 2019 · $2k
- WIWESTERN IOWA TECH COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2018 · $1k
- DMDES MOINES AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
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…
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.
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…
The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
Excelsior University provides educational opportunity to adult learners with an emphasis on those historically underrepresented in higher education. The University meets students where they are - academically and geographically, offering…
We are a Catholic, co-educational, liberal arts university founded in 1843 by the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Dubuque, Iowa. Clarke educates students at the post-secondary level in the liberal arts and sciences, the…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Upper Iowa University and the most unlike its peers is Baylor University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 74 years old; the field is 38. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 55 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 DORDT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS ↗
- Who funds MORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Grand Canyon University ↗
- Who funds Illinois College of Optometry ↗
- Who funds Colorado Christian University ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DRAKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST AMBROSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of Indianapolis ↗
- Who funds Buena Vista University ↗
- Who funds The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago ↗
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: 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
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 Paul & Mary Collins Trust 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.
- Pacific University — 5% 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.