California · Private foundation
The Carol and James 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.
- $2.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 62
- Grants FY2025
- 67
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 28%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $185,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 69
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $31M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 28% of the organizations The Carol and James Collins Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $380k 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 | 62 | $2.0M | 23% |
| FY2024 | 67 | $1.5M | 28% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $412k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 69 | $1.4M | 33% |
| FY2021 | 61 | $1.2M | 56% |
| FY2020 | 42 | $610k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Los Angeles | $271,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Para Los Ninos | $202,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Los Angeles Harbor | $171,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Students Run America | $170,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Communities in Schools of Los Angeles Inc | $156,000 | 5 | 1% |
| United Friends of the Children | $156,000 | 5 | 1% |
| A Place Called Home | $151,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Proyecto Pastoral | $150,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Heart of Los Angeles Youth Inc | $145,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Ready to Succeed | $145,000 | 4 | 1% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Carol and James Collins Foundation 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.
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How this is measured
Compare The Carol and James Collins Foundation with peer funders
About The Carol and James Collins Foundation
- How much does The Carol and James Collins Foundation give?
- The Carol and James Collins Foundation reported 62 grants totaling $2,006,060 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 69 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Carol and James Collins Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (29%), Youth Development (23%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are The Carol and James Collins Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Los Angeles ($271k), Para Los Ninos ($203k), Boys & Girls Clubs of Los Angeles Harbor ($171k).
- Does The Carol and James Collins Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Carol and James Collins Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Carol and James Collins Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ralph M Parsons Foundation, The Annenberg Foundation, California Community Foundation.
- Where is The Carol and James Collins Foundation based?
- The Carol and James Collins Foundation is based in CA.
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