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The Carol and James Collins Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
62
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$185k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$2.1MYouth Development$1.7MHuman Services$965kArts & Culture$903kHealth$378kPhilanthropy$312kEmployment$205kCommunity Improvement$187kOther$0
02FY2025 · 62 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k43 grants · $1.4M
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $605k
$30,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Los Angeles$185,000
Collins & Katz Family YMCA$162,000
Para Los Ninos$57,500
Discovery Cube Los Angeles$50,000
The Change Reaction$50,000
Heart of Los Angeles Youth$50,000
Ready to Succeed$50,000
First Graduate$45,500
Alliance College-Ready Public Schools$45,000
LA Promise Fund$42,500
The 30 Birds Foundation$42,500
Student Health Services Fund dba The LA trust for Children's Health$42,000
Boys & Girls Club of the LA Harbor$41,000
Bob Baker Marionette Theater$40,000
Get Lit-Words Ignite Inc$40,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $874k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Challenged Athletes Foundation: $10k → 11%Providers Association for Home Health & Hospices Agencies: $3k → 14%Decorative Arts Society: $5k → 10%SBCS Corporation: $6k → 11%T Silent P Inc: $5k → 11%Decorative Arts Society: $3k → 10%Challenged Athletes Foundation: $2k → 11%Decorative Arts Society: $3k → 10%Magdalena Ecke Family YMCA: $3k → 11%Decorative Arts Society: $3k → 10%The M3ND Project: $30k → 10%The M3nd Project: $30k → 10%The M3nd Project: $30k → 10%YMCA of Metro Los Angeles: $50k → 14%YMCA of Metro Los Angeles: $2k → 14%YMCA of Metro Los Angeles: $500 → 14%Para Los Ninos: $58k → 14%Para Los Ninos: $45k → 14%Para Los Ninos: $35k → 14%Para Los Ninos: $30k → 14%Para Los Ninos: $30k → 14%Para Los Ninos: $5k → 14%The Change Reaction: $50k → 14%Proyecto Pastoral: $40k → 14%Proyecto Pastoral: $40k → 14%Proyecto Pastoral: $40k → 14%Proyecto Pastoral: $30k → 14%Our Children LA: $18k → 14%Our Community LA: $14k → 14%Our Community LA: $10k → 14%Our Children LA (now known as Our Community LA): $10k → 14%United Friends of the Children: $40k → 14%United Friends of the Children: $30k → 14%United Friends of the Children: $30k → 14%United Friends of the Children: $30k → 14%One Voice: $25k → 14%One Voice: $25k → 14%One Voice: $25k → 14%United Friends of the Children: $1k → 14%Los Angeles Youth Network: $30k → 14%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.
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.3M · 78 repeat orgs$857k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

78 repeat relationships: 48 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

78
43

Total granted

$6.3M
$541k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+3%

Still filing today

78%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $316k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureCivil RightsHealthOther
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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELES
    5× · 2021–2025 · $271k · revenue +60%
  • PL
    PARA LOS NINOS
    5× · 2021–2025 · $203k · revenue +18%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LOS ANGELES HARBOR
    5× · 2020–2025 · $171k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • YM
    Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angelesgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $52k · revenue +96%
  • PC
    Positive Coaching Alliance (merged organization with Coaching Corps)
    one grant, 2022 · $35k
  • EF
    Educators for Excellence-Los Angeles (E4E-LA)
    one grant, 2022 · $35k
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
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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2
La's Best

La's best provides free supervised before and after-school activities to over 15,000 children at 200 schools in los angeles unified school district (lausd).

Education
3
Los Angeles Conservation Corps

The la conservation corps creates equitable opportunities for young people to build resilience in themselves, their communities and the environment through a program of work, education and support.

Employment
4
Tomorrow's Leadership Collaborative Charter School

The mission of tlc is to educate diverse students through a rigorous, standards-based, collegepreparatory program to become conscientious, caring, and responsible 21st century citizens. tlc is grounded in an inclusive vision of teaching…

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5
Stem Advantage

Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…

Youth Development
6
Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences

Crossroads is an independent school for approximately 1,200 students.

Education
7
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
8
Alternative Schools Inc

To help each child reach his/her full potential by cultivating an active village of parents, community members, and stakeholders involved in providing an individual, personal, and conceptual learning environment for each student.

Education
9
University of California Student Association

The University of California Student Association (UCSA) is a coalition of students and student governments that aims to provide a collective voice for all students through advocacy and direct action. UCSA participates in the shared…

Education
10
The Archer School for Girls Inc

The archer school for girls is an educational community that supports and challenges young women to discover their passions and realize their true potential by a) providing a rigorous, integrated college preparatory curriculum that fosters…

Education
11
Los Angeles Academy of Arts and Enterprise

To prepare students for leadership in the arts and business; where creativity, academic knowledge and financial literacy are essential for success. we are providing an education that integrates the four lenses of learning: academics, arts,…

Education
12
Partnership for Los Angeles Schools

We transform schools to revolutionize school systems, empowering all students with a high-quality education. the partnership's goals are to 1) dramatically accelerate achievement for students in the district's highest need and historically…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Para Los Ninos; the most unlike its peers is Providers Association for Home Health & Hospice Ag. 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

102 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 102 of the 137 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)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
98/102
Grantees still filing
66/102
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Collins & Katz Family YMCA: $191,500 · OtherCollins & Katz Family YMCALA County Department of Arts and Culture: $160,000 · OtherLA County Department of Arts and Cultu…A PLACE CALLED HOME: $151,500 · OtherA PLACE CALLED HOMEPF Bresee Foundation: $140,000 · OtherPF Bresee FoundationPS ARTS: $135,000 · OtherPS ARTSMAR VISTA FAMILY CENTER: $127,000 · OtherCITY YEAR INC: $90,000 · OtherStudent Health Services Fund dba The LA trust for Children's Health: $83,000 · Other+56 more: $1,389,545 · Other+56 moreREADY TO SUCCEED: $145,000 · EducationREADY TO SUCCEEDLA PROMISE FUND: $127,500 · EducationLA PROMISE FUND826LA: $121,000 · Education826LANEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $111,000 · EducationNEW VILLAGE CHARTER S…COLLEGE TRACK: $110,000 · EducationCOLLEGE TRACKALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $87,500 · EducationALLIANCE COLLEGE-READ…THE SEED SCHOOL OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY: $85,000 · EducationTHE SEED SCHOOL OF LO…LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $80,000 · EducationLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIV…ALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $80,000 · EducationALLIANCE COLLEGE-READ…CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE: $75,000 · EducationCHARLES R DREW UNIVER…POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE: $75,000 · EducationPOSITIVE COACHING ALL…Da Vinci Schools: $70,000 · EducationBRIGHT PROSPECT: $60,000 · Education+10 more: $144,500 · Education+10 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELES: $271,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS O…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LOS ANGELES HARBOR: $171,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS O…STUDENTS RUN AMERICA: $170,000 · Youth DevelopmentSTUDENTS RUN AMERICACOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LOS ANGELES INC: $156,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOO…HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $145,000 · Youth DevelopmentHEART OF LOS ANGELES…PEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC: $120,000 · Youth DevelopmentPEER HEALTH EXCHANGE…FIRST GRADUATE: $80,500 · Youth DevelopmentFIRST GRADUATEHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $70,000 · Youth DevelopmentHOMEBOY INDUSTRIESYOUNG STORYTELLERS: $50,000 · Youth Development+7 more: $67,500 · Youth DevelopmentPARA LOS NINOS: $202,500 · Human ServicesPARA LOS NINOSUNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $156,000 · Human ServicesUNITED FRIENDS…Proyecto Pastoral: $150,000 · Human ServicesProyecto Pasto…M3nd Project: $135,000 · Human ServicesM3nd ProjectOne Voice: $75,000 · Human ServicesOne VoiceYoung Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles: $52,000 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Ch…OUR COMMUNITY LA FKA OUR CHILDREN LA: $52,000 · Human ServicesOUR COMMUNITY …THE CHANGE REACTION: $50,000 · Human Services+7 more: $72,500 · Human Services+7 moreTHE UNUSUAL SUSPECTS THEATRE COMPANY: $125,000 · Arts & CultureTHE UNUSUAL …NEW EARTH ORGANIZATION: $121,000 · Arts & CultureNEW EARTH OR…GET LIT - WORDS IGNITE INC: $120,000 · Arts & CultureGET LIT - WO…SPIRIT SERIES INC: $113,060 · Arts & CultureSPIRIT SERIE…THE H E ART PROJECT dba ARTWORXLA: $105,000 · Arts & CultureTHE H E ART …DISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER OF LOS ANGELES: $90,000 · Arts & CultureDISCOVERY SC…A WINDOW BETWEEN WORLDS: $40,000 · Arts & CultureBOB BAKER MARIONETTE THEATER: $40,000 · Arts & CultureINNER CITY YOUTH ORCHRSTRA OF LOS ANGELES INC: $30,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $28,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $80,000 · PhilanthropySOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS: $75,500 · Philanthropy+2 more: $6,000 · PhilanthropyUNITE-LA INC: $130,000 · EmploymentBLACK COOPERATIVE IMPACT FUND: $7,000 · Employment
Other$2,467,545Education$1,371,500Youth Development$1,301,000Human Services$945,000Arts & Culture$812,060Philanthropy$161,500Employment$137,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELES: $271,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPARA LOS NINOS: $202,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LOS ANGELES HARBOR: $171,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSTUDENTS RUN AMERICA: $170,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LOS ANGELES INC: $156,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $156,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME: $151,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetProyecto Pastoral: $150,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $145,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetREADY TO SUCCEED: $145,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetPF Bresee Foundation: $140,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetPS ARTS: $135,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetM3nd Project: $135,000 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetUNITE-LA INC: $130,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetLA PROMISE FUND: $127,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMAR VISTA FAMILY CENTER: $127,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetTHE UNUSUAL SUSPECTS THEATRE COMPANY: $125,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetNEW EARTH ORGANIZATION: $121,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budget826LA: $121,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetPEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC: $120,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetGET LIT - WORDS IGNITE INC: $120,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetSPIRIT SERIES INC: $113,060 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetNEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $111,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetCOLLEGE TRACK: $110,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE H E ART PROJECT dba ARTWORXLA: $105,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetDISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER OF LOS ANGELES: $90,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $87,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE SEED SCHOOL OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY: $85,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFIRST GRADUATE: $80,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of West San Gabriel Valley: $76,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS: $75,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOne Voice: $75,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE: $75,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA RESTAURANT FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetDa Vinci Schools: $70,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $70,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRIGHT PROSPECT: $60,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP: $60,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOACHING CORPS: $55,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles: $52,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOUR COMMUNITY LA FKA OUR CHILDREN LA: $52,000 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetYOUNG STORYTELLERS: $50,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCASA OF LOS ANGELES: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% 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 Ralph M Parsons F…The Annenberg Foundat…California Community …Weingart FoundationThe Rose Hills Founda…The Ahmanson Foundati…Elbridge Stuart Found…Joseph Drown Foundati…The Green FoundationGreat Public Schools …The California Wellne…The California Endowm…
The Ralph M Parsons FoundationCA75.5× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · California Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · Joseph Drown Foundation · The Green Foundation · Great Public Schools Now · The California Wellness Foundation · The California Endowment

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 The Carol and James Collins Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Carol and James Collins Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
38report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 137 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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The camps
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