· Private foundation
The Collier 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $106k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $177k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUNSET INTERNATIONAL BIBLE INSTITUTION | $127,197 |
| LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| KWO MINISTRIES | $40,000 |
| SUNSET CHURCH OF CHRIST | $20,500 |
| GREENLAWN CHURCH OF CHRIST | $13,125 |
| HOME MISSION | $12,000 |
| NEW MEXICO CHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S HOME | $10,000 |
| IN SEARCH OF THE LORD'S WAY | $10,000 |
| MOUNTAIN VIEW CHURCH OF CHRIST | $7,700 |
| DENTON CHURCH OF CHRIST | $5,000 |
| WORLD BIBLE SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| MELONIE PARK CHURCH | $2,500 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $1,000 |
| HILLSIDE CHRISTAIN CHURCH | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 51% of The Collier Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 81% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 84% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- KMKWO MINISTRIES6× · 2020–2025 · $103k · revenue +17%
- LCLUBBOCK CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY3× · 2022–2025 · $61k · revenue +18%
- HHomeMission3× · 2021–2025 · $32k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- MRMISSION ROAD CHURCH OF CHRISTone grant, 2023 · $20k
- HMHOME MINISTRIESone grant, 2020 · $11k
- PCPAYDAY co GARY ASHBYone grant, 2021 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Evangelistic preaching the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Missionary and support of missionaries at home and abroad. Praying and counseling with Gods people both at home and in the field. Benevolence to needy.
Education, Humanitarian, Community outreach and evangelism ministry. Provide Orphan Care, Train Youth in Career Paths, Train Pastors and Others in Bible School, Prison Ministry, Provide Elementary School for about 300 Children
To provide a hot meal to families struggling to feed their children
Supporting and encouraging families worldwide to serve and share Jesus through work, worship, and the Word.
Publishing, writing, sales & distribution of Christian Books; speaking throughout the US and foreign countries on Christian subjects. Attending orphanages, Christian schools and Bible colleges in the US and foreign countries assisting in…
Community outreach and church services
The purpose of this company is to provide food to homeless and indigent families in our area.
To proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ throughout the world. Taking His love to the orphans, widows and children being trafficked by providing homes, feeding, education, clothing and care.
World of Opportunity is an evangelical ministry that supports missionaries in the United States and around the world as they bring the Word of the Lord into peoples lives. The missionaries supported by World of Opportunity share the Gospel…
The promotion of the gospel of Jesus christ through international evangelism through the establishment of churches, support organizations, and missionaries.
Teaching and Spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Reaching Out To The Nations' mission is to both preach and demonstrate the love of Go through its projects and programs which include preaching, food distribution, widow and orphan assistance and leadership training.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Mexico Christian Childrens Home and the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 34 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 KWO MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS HOME ↗
- Who funds HomeMission ↗
- Who funds WORLD BIBLE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds IN SEARCH OF THE LORD'S WAY INC ↗
- Who funds Bread of Life Corporation ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME OF LUBBOCK AND FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Collier 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.
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.