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The Carol and Jim Collins Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Carol and Jim Collins Family Foundation Inc

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.

$14k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$2k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

International$28kHealth$24kFood & Nutrition$2kHuman Services$2kHousing & Shelter$2kEducation$1kYouth Development$850Crime & Legal$700Other$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
5
States reached
$367k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION$2,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA$1,500
USA FOR UNHCR$1,000
LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION$1,000
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL$1,000
Individual grant recipient$600
FINCA INTERNATIONAL$500
PARKINSONS FOUNDATION$500
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESOURCE CENTER$500
NAMI BUFFALO AND WESTERN NEW YORK$500
WOMEN HELPING WOMEN$500
JOURNEY'S END REFUGEE SERVICES$500
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY$500
ACLU FOUNDATION$500
UNICEF USA$500
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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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 36% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $2k → 6%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $500 → 6%FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER OF ERIE COUNTY: $200 → 13%FEEDMORE WNY FOUNDATION: $700 → 13%FEEDMORE WNY FOUNDATION: $500 → 13%FEEDMORE WNY FOUNDATION: $500 → 13%FEEDMORE WNY FOUNDATION: $300 → 13%FEEDMORE WNY FOUNDATION: $300 → 13%FEEDMORE WNY FOUNDATION: $300 → 13%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

NY
MA
OH
CA
CO
AR
DC
GA
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$68k · 26 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
16

Total granted

$68k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+20%

Still filing today

69%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
HealthInternationalEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • NA
    NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +35%
  • FI
    FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +157%
  • AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • OT
    ODYSSEY TEEN CAMP INC
    one grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue +7%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $500
  • SERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $500 · revenue +20%
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
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
2
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
3
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A global nonprofit biomedical research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
4
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

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5
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
6
International Biomedical Research Alliance

Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.

Health
7
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
8
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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9
Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health
10
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
11
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
12
Parenteral Drug Association Inc

To develop scientifically sound, practical technical information and resources to advance science and regulation for the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industry through the expertise of our global membership.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amnesty International of the Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation. 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

35 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. 35 of the 52 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
21/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION: $11,500 · OtherNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRE…HEIFER INTERNATIONAL: $2,550 · OtherHEIFER INTERNATIONALWOMEN HELPING WOMEN: $2,050 · OtherWOMEN HELPING WOMENHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $1,700 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $1,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,300 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,250 · OtherNATIONAL MS SOCIETY: $1,200 · Other+19 more: $7,575 · Other+19 moreFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $9,000 · InternationalFINCA INTERNATIONAL INCAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $7,700 · InternationalAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INCGRAMEEN FOUNDATION USA: $3,600 · InternationalGRAMEEN FOUNDATION USAUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $3,500 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,800 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCUnited States Association for UNHCR: $1,000 · International+1 more: $800 · InternationalPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $3,800 · HealthPARKINSON'S FO…THE FAMILIESCN2A FOUNDATION INC: $2,050 · HealthTHE FAMILIESCN…PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENT…ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,400 · HealthALZHEIMER'S FO…NAMI BUFFALO & WESTERN NEW YORK: $500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESOURCE CENTER INC: $500 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $500 · Health+1 more: $100 · HealthMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Human ServicesMARC LUSTGA…FEEDMORE WNY FOUNDATION INC: $2,600 · Human ServicesFEEDMORE WN…+1 more: $200 · Human ServicesSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC: $500 · EducationAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $300 · EducationRESULTS EDUCATIONAL FUND INC: $250 · Education+1 more: $25 · EducationODYSSEY TEEN CAMP INC: $500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF EDEN: $350 · Youth DevelopmentROBERT H JACKSON CENTER INC: $500 · Arts & Culture
Other$30,625International$27,400Health$10,350Human Services$7,800Education$1,075Youth Development$850Arts & Culture$500

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION: $11,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $7,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $3,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGRAMEEN FOUNDATION USA: $3,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDMORE WNY FOUNDATION INC: $2,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN HELPING WOMEN: $2,050 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FAMILIESCN2A FOUNDATION INC: $2,050 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEVA FOUNDATION: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROBERT H JACKSON CENTER INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetODYSSEY TEEN CAMP INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAMI BUFFALO & WESTERN NEW YORK: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESOURCE CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF EDEN: $350 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRESULTS EDUCATIONAL FUND INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA LAKE ASSOCIATION INC: $225 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY JUSTICE CENTER OF ERIE COUNTY INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEden Community Foundation: $150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMADONNA OF THE STREETS INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJERICHO ROAD MINISTRIES INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EDEN LIBRARY: $25 over 1y, 1.4% 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.

Mother Cabrini Health…Community Foundation …The Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…Morgan Stanley Global…Charities Aid Foundat…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …
Mother Cabrini Health Foundation IncNY15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.
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    How do I get to The Carol and Jim Collins Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Carol and Jim Collins Family Foundation Inc 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 52 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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