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The Andi Collins Foundation

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.

$128k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$42k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$207kCrime & Legal$68kHuman Services$19kPublic Benefit$19kFood & Nutrition$13kEmployment$10kRecreation & Sports$7kPhilanthropy$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $93k
$7,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$610k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN$41,524
ST MARGARETS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL$28,379
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$12,765
THE COLLEAGUES ORGANIZATION$10,000
WITH MY OWN TWO HANDS FOUNDATION$9,650
MARINE RAIDER FOUNDATION$7,595
MIRACLES FOR KIDS$7,000
ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$5,000
Individual grant recipient$2,860
A QUARTER BLUE$1,240
SAINT JOACHIM CATHOLIC SCHOOL$1,225
BEN CARLSON FOUNDATION$535
FRIENDS OF SEASHORE$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WITH MY OWN TWO HANDS FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%WITH MY OWN TWO HANDS FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$306k · 5 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
4

Total granted

$306k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+1%

Still filing today

40%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEnvironmentPublic BenefitRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalEducationOther

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

  • SM
    ST MARY'S SCHOOL
    3× · 2017–2022 · $110k
  • SM
    ST MARGARETS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL
    3× · 2022–2024 · $90k
  • CA
    COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN
    3× · 2022–2024 · $67k

Funded once

  • BC
    BIG CANYON COUNTRY CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY OF IRVINE
    one grant, 2021 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Surfing for Hope Foundation
Human Services
2
Blue Ocean Foundation
3
Sea Change Foundation
Human Services
4
Oceanworks Foundation
Environment
5
Two Fish Foundation
Religion
6
Boardriders Foundation
7
Oceanit Research Foundation
Science & Tech
8
Oceans for Youth Foundation
Science & Tech
9
Surf Point Foundation
Arts & Culture
10
Ocean Beach School District Foundation
Unclassified
11
Green Ocean Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Marine Megafauna Foundation

Save threatened marine life using pioneering research, education, and sustainable conservation solutions

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orange County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is A Quarter Blue. 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

6 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 6 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
2/6
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST MARY'S SCHOOL — $110,000 · OtherST MARY'S SCHOOLST MARGARETS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL — $90,399 · OtherST MARGARETS EPISCOPAL SCHOOLCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN — $66,895 · OtherCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES FOR CHILDRENSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK — $12,765 · Other+7 more — $29,620 · Other+7 moreWITH MY OWN TWO HANDS FOUNDATION — $19,150 · Human ServicesMARINE RAIDER FOUNDATION — $19,095 · Public BenefitMIRACLES FOR KIDS INC — $7,000 · Recreation & SportsORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION — $1,899 · EnvironmentA QUARTER BLUE — $1,240 · Crime & LegalFriends of Seashore — $500 · Education
Other$309,679Human Services$19,150Public Benefit$19,095Recreation & Sports$7,000Philanthropy$5,000Environment$1,899Crime & Legal$1,240Education$500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWITH MY OWN TWO HANDS FOUNDATION — $19,150 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetMARINE RAIDER FOUNDATION — $19,095 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMIRACLES FOR KIDS INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION — $1,899 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA QUARTER BLUE — $1,240 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 WITH MY OWN TWO HANDS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds MARINE RAIDER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds MIRACLES FOR KIDS INC
  • Who funds ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds A QUARTER BLUE

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.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE7.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 The Andi Collins Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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