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Susanne Marcus Collins Foundation Inc at a glance

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Susanne Marcus Collins Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$557k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$175k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Health$555kArts & Culture$453kAnimals$320kEducation$279kCommunity Improvement$225kPhilanthropy$201kScience & Tech$158kHuman Services$150kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $487k
$50,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WAKE FOREST HEALTH SCIENCES$175,000
Individual grant recipient$111,519
CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON$100,000
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY$50,000
HAMILTON COLLEGE TRUSTEES$50,000
GUARDIAN ANGELS CAT RESCUE INC$40,000
LIFE AFTER HATE$20,000
CENTER FOR MAINE CONTEMPORARY ART$5,000
FIREHOUSE CENTER OF THE ARTS$5,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 59% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE: $10k → 8%GUARDIAN ANGELS CAT RESCUE INC: $80k → 8%FIREHOUSE CENTER OF THE ARTS: $5k → 10%TUNEFOOLERY MUSIC INC: $32k → 16%RESONANCE PROJECT FOUNDATION: $158k → 10%HAMILTON COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $50k → 16%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV UNIV INC: $19k → 17%PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $1k → 14%NETWORK FOR ANIMALS USA: $10k → 12%LIFE AFTER HATE: $20k → 5%S1- VISIONARY ARTIST'S PROJECT: $32k → 12%WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $175k → 15%BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $50k → 9%NATIONAL ABORTION HOTLINE: $100k → 6%CENTER FOR MAINE CONTEMPORARY ART: $5k → 11%FALMOUTH TOGETHER WE CAN INC: $225k → 8%GUARDIAN ANGELS CAT RESCUE INC: $80k → 8%FIREHOUSE CENTER OF THE ARTS: $5k → 10%CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON: $100k → 16%HAMILTON COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $25k → 16%CENTER FOR MAINE CONTEMPORARY ART: $5k → 11%GUARDIAN ANGELS CAT RESCUE INC: $50k → 8%FIREHOUSE CENTER OF THE ARTS: $5k → 10%CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON: $75k → 16%HAMILTON COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $10k → 16%CENTER FOR MAINE CONTEMPORARY ART: $5k → 11%GUARDIAN ANGELS CAT RESCUE INC: $40k → 8%FIREHOUSE CENTER OF THE ARTS: $5k → 10%CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON: $75k → 16%CENTER FOR MAINE CONTEMPORARY ART: $5k → 11%GUARDIAN ANGELS: $150k → 8%CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON: $50k → 16%CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON: $50k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $130k → 16%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

ME
WI
NY
MA
OR
CA
UT
MD
NC
DC
FL
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.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 6 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against -7% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
13

Total granted

$1.1M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
-7%

Still filing today

67%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsEducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • THE CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $350k · revenue +31%
  • GA
    GUARDIAN ANGELS CAT RESCUE INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $250k · revenue -13% · 57% of their budget
  • WF
    WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
    2× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • FT
    FALMOUTH TOGETHER WE CAN INC
    one grant, 2020 · $225k · revenue -7%
  • WF
    WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
    one grant, 2022 · $175k
  • WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $175k · revenue +23%
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
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
2
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
3
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
4
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
5
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
6
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
7
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
8
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
9
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
10
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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11
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
12
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Celebrity Series of Boston Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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

15 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. 15 of the 22 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
6/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON INC: $350,000 · OtherTHE CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON INCIndividual grant recipient: $199,589 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $175,000 · OtherWAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINETHE RESONANCE PROJECT FOUNDATION CO INTERNATIONAL SPACE FEDERATION: $157,500 · OtherTHE RESONANCE PROJECT FOUNDATION CO INTERNATIONAL SPACE FEDE…GUARDIAN ANGELS: $150,000 · OtherGUARDIAN ANGELSMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $130,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALNATIONAL ABORTION HOTLINE: $100,000 · OtherNATIONAL ABORTION HOTLINE+2 more: $51,500 · OtherWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES: $250,000 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY …WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $175,000 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITYTrustees of Hamilton College: $84,500 · EducationTrustees of Hamilton Co…GUARDIAN ANGELS CAT RESCUE INC: $250,000 · AnimalsGUARDIAN ANGEL…BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $50,000 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS A…+2 more: $20,000 · Animals+2 moreFALMOUTH TOGETHER WE CAN INC: $225,000 · Community ImprovementFALMOUTH T…TUNEFOOLERY MUSIC INC: $31,500 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART: $20,000 · Arts & CultureLife After Hate Inc: $20,000 · Civil RightsAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ: $19,454 · InternationalTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,313,589Education$509,500Animals$320,000Community Improvement$225,000Arts & Culture$51,500Civil Rights$20,000International$19,454Philanthropy$1,000

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 budgetTHE CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON INC: $350,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetGUARDIAN ANGELS CAT RESCUE INC: $250,000 over 4y, 57% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES: $250,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $175,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RESONANCE PROJECT FOUNDATION CO INTERNATIONAL SPACE FEDERATION: $157,500 over 1y, 20% of budgetTrustees of Hamilton College: $84,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTUNEFOOLERY MUSIC INC: $31,500 over 1y, 15% of budgetCENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART: $20,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetLife After Hate Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ: $19,454 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNetwork for Animals USA Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC7.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Susanne Marcus Collins Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Susanne Marcus Collins Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Falmouth Together We Can Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Tunefoolery Music Inc: 5% of income from government
  • The Celebrity Series of Boston Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.

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 22 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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