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Porter and Lauren Collins Foundation at a glance

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Porter and Lauren Collins 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.

$21k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$127kRecreation & Sports$80kArts & Culture$15kHealth$3kInternational$2kPhilanthropy$761Other$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,825
Median grant
6
States reached
$475k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SALISBURY SCHOOL$10,000
THE KINKAID SCHOOL$6,400
LITTLE CHILDREN OF THE WORLD$1,825
THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI$1,500
ISLAND HEALTH PROJECT$1,000
THE GLADSTONE FOUNDATION$246
02The need
03

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 40% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE GLADSTONE FOUNDATION: $246 → 10%PENNY'S FLIGHT: $3k → 6%ISLAND HEALTH PROJECT: $1k → 7%JEFFERSON AWARDS FOUNDATION: $2k → 17%HOUSTON ART ALLIANCE: $5k → 16%THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI: $2k → 14%SALISBURY SCHOOL: $10k → 9%THE NATIONAL ROWING FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $15k → 14%LITTLE CHILDREN OF THE WORLD: $2k → 13%WALSH PARK: $300 → 7%CRUTCHES4KIDSORG: $500 → 17%THE KINKAID SCHOOL: $6k → 16%THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI: $2k → 14%SALISBURY SCHOOL: $10k → 9%THE NATIONAL ROWING FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $15k → 14%NY HARBOR FOUNDATION: $515 → 17%THE KINKAID SCHOOL: $5k → 16%THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI: $1k → 14%SALISBURY SCHOOL: $10k → 9%THE NATIONAL ROWING FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $15k → 14%THE KINKAID SCHOOL: $3k → 16%THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI: $1k → 14%SALISBURY SCHOOL: $10k → 9%THE NATIONAL ROWING FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $12k → 14%THE KINKAID SCHOOL: $300 → 16%THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI: $1k → 14%SALISBURY SCHOOL: $5k → 9%THE NATIONAL ROWING FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $250 → 14%THE ARC OF GREATER HOUSTON: $500 → 16%THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI: $1k → 14%SALISBURY SCHOOL: $5k → 9%THE NATIONAL ROWING FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%HOUSTON AREA PARKINSON SOCIETY: $1k → 16%THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI: $500 → 14%SALISBURY SCHOOL: $5k → 9%THE NATIONAL ROWING FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%THE NATIONAL ROWING FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

WA
NY
CT
RI
CA
VA
DC
GA
TX
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$157k · 4 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
9

Total granted

$157k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
0%

Still filing today

100%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • NR
    NATIONAL ROWING FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +34%
  • SS
    SALISBURY SCHOOL INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $55k · revenue +60%
  • TK
    The Kinkaid School Inc
    4× · 2021–2025 · $14k · revenue +85%

Funded once

  • HA
    Houston Arts Alliance
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +18%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • JA
    JEFFERSON AWARDS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
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.

1
Handicap International

Handicap international dba humanity & inclusion (hi) works with people with disabilities and people living in situations of vulnerability, including poverty, exclusion, conflict, and disaster.

International
2
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
3
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
4
Health Care Without Harm

The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…

Environment
5
St John's School

See Schedule OSt. John's School is an independent, co-educational day school presenting a 13-year sequence of college preparatory training. A non-profit institution, it was founded in 1946 to provide the community with a school of exacting…

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6
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.

Education
7
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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8
Harvard-Westlake School

Harvard-westlake strives to be a diverse and inclusive community united by the joyful pursuit of educational excellence, living and learning with integrity, and purpose beyond ourselves.

Education
9
United States Naval Institute

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.

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10
University of New Haven

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…

Education
11
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
12
The Awty International School

See Schedule OThe purpose of Awty International School (Awty) is to create an environment where students experience excellence every day to make their mark on the world alongside their community, in a spirit of curiosity, courage and…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Vision Inc; the most unlike its peers is Island Health Project Inc. 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

13 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. 13 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL ROWING FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 · Recreation & SportsNATIONAL ROWING FOUNDATION INCSALISBURY SCHOOL INC: $55,000 · EducationSALISBURY SCHOOL INCThe Kinkaid School Inc: $14,200 · EducationThe Kinkaid School Inc+1 more: $246 · EducationBROWN UNIVERSITY: $57,347 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSITYTHE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI: $7,500 · Arts & CultureHouston Arts Alliance: $5,000 · Arts & CultureIndividual grant recipient: $2,596 · OtherJEFFERSON AWARDS FOUNDATION: $2,051 · OtherLITTLE CHILDREN OF THE WORLD INC: $1,825 · OtherHouston Area Parkinson Society: $1,030 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherNY HARBOR FOUNDATION: $515 · OtherThe Arc of Harris County: $500 · Other+1 more: $300 · OtherISLAND HEALTH PROJECT INC: $1,000 · HealthCRUTCHES 4 KIDS INC: $500 · HealthWORLD VISION INC: $500 · International
Recreation & Sports$80,000Education$69,446Community Improvement$57,347Arts & Culture$12,500Other$9,817Health$1,500International$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL ROWING FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $57,347 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSALISBURY SCHOOL INC: $55,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Kinkaid School Inc: $14,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI: $7,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Arts Alliance: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE CHILDREN OF THE WORLD INC: $1,825 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Area Parkinson Society: $1,030 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Arc of Harris County: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCRUTCHES 4 KIDS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA11.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Porter and Lauren Collins Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Porter and Lauren Collins Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Porter and Lauren Collins Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Porter and Lauren Collins Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 18 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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