· Private foundation
The Collins Companies 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $199k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $420k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PENNSYLVANIA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL | $150,000 |
| RUTH M SMITH CENTER | $90,000 |
| NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| KLAMATH FAMILY HEAD START | $60,000 |
| KANE AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT | $50,000 |
| ALMANOR BASIN FOOD PANTRY | $45,000 |
| LAKE COUNTY FOOD SHARE | $45,000 |
| SIERRA HOSPICE | $40,000 |
| KANE AREA FOOD PANTRY | $30,000 |
| KANE COMMUNITY CENTER | $28,975 |
| SOLID GROUND EQUINE ASSISTED ACTIVITIES AND THERAPY CENTER | $10,000 |
| KLAMATH LAKE COUNTIES FOOD BANK | $7,500 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF KLAMATH BASIN | $7,500 |
| KANE AREA REVITALIZATION ENTERPRISE | $6,000 |
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, $180k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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 5% of The Collins Companies 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.
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.
25 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 5 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, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $420k 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
- LHLUTHERAN HOME AT KANE4× · 2018–2022 · $347k · revenue +22%
- ABAlmanor Basin Food Pantry7× · 2017–2025 · $119k · revenue +5% · 72% of their budget
- KAKANE AREA REVITALIZATION ENTERPRISE4× · 2018–2025 · $95k · revenue +201% · 69% of their budget
Funded once
- TOTOWN OF LAKEVIEW OREGONone grant, 2022 · $200k
- NLNORTH LAKE COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $150k
- TATRAIL ASSOCIATION OF THE MCKEAN ELK DIVIDEone grant, 2024 · $118k · 62% of their budget
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.
Preserving the natural legacy of the upper klamath basin.
Build and maintain non-motorized recreational trails in and around Klamath County
The primary purposes for which Klamath Forest Alliance is organized is to act in the public interest by promoting sustainable ecosystems and communities.
Established to promote the conservation of the quality of the environment of the area in the watershed of Lake Kanasatka, including the conservation of the natural resources of the land, water, marshland, woodland and open spaces, as well…
KS Wilds mission is to protect and restore wild nature in the Klamath-Siskiyou region of southwest Oregon and northwest California.
The mission of the katawba valley land trust is to protect the natural resources, cultural resources, open lands, waters, and vistas of aesthetic value in the catawba river valley and surrounding areas.
The organization's mission is to promote new and existing business development in southern oregon.
Caring for the lands and people of the Kaniksu Region, today, tomorrow, and forever.
To create total community commitment for helping people in need by developing a campus and programs of holistic and collaborative services with the goal of self-sufficiency based upon effort and reward.
To assist in the recruitment of new business and industry and to work with existing business and industry to retain present levels and provide for future growth.
Our mission is to protect the rural nature of Wallowa County by working cooperatively with private landowners,indigenous people, local communities and governmental entities to conserve land.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Klamath Family Head Start and the most unlike its peers is Robotics Education & Competition Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 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. 27 of the 57 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 HEADWATERS CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN HOME AT KANE ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Almanor Basin Food Pantry ↗
- Who funds TRAIL ASSOCIATION OF THE MCKEAN ELK DIVIDE ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF LAKEVIEW OREGON FOUNDATIO ↗
- Who funds LAKE COUNTY FOOD SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds KANE AREA REVITALIZATION ENTERPRISE ↗
- Who funds RUTH M SMITH CENTER ↗
- Who funds KANE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE RURAL HEALTH CONSORTIA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KLAMATH FAMILY HEAD START ↗
- Who funds SOLID GROUND EAATC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA HOSPICE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS MEMORIAL PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds KLAMATH FALLS BMX ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF KLAMATH BASIN ↗
- Who funds KLAMATH LAKE COUNTIES FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Kane Area Community Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MCKEAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
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: Northwest Charitable Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · Community Foundation of the Northern Alleghenies · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Oregon Community Foundation · Kane Community Development Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Collins Companies 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Klamath Family Head Start — 98% of income from government
- United Way of the Columbia-Willamette — 25% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Playa — 5% of income from government
- Solid Ground Eaatc — 3% of income from government
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.
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