Minnesota · 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.
- $640k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $45,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $15M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations The Collins Companies Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 60% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $281k 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 | 14 | $640k | 36% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $470k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $365k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $732k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $236k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $451k | 52% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $261k | 58% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $307k | 80% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Headwaters Charitable Trust | $439,450 | 5 | 24% |
| Lutheran Home at Kane | $346,778 | 4 | 2% |
| Pennsylvania Environmental Council Inc | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Almanor Basin Food Pantry | $119,000 | 7 | 72% |
| Trail Association of the McKean Elk Divide | $118,000 | 1 | 62% |
| Rotary Club of Lakeview Oregon Foundatio | $100,000 | 1 | 60% |
| Lake County Food Share Inc | $95,000 | 6 | 11% |
| Kane Area Revitalization Enterprise | $94,675 | 4 | 69% |
| Ruth M Smith Center | $90,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kane Volunteer Fire Department | $88,985 | 3 | 33% |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Collins Companies Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
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
How this is measured
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About The Collins Companies Foundation
- How much does The Collins Companies Foundation give?
- The Collins Companies Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $639,975 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Collins Companies Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (21%), Recreation & Sports (18%), Human Services (18%).
- Who are The Collins Companies Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Headwaters Charitable Trust ($439k), Lutheran Home at Kane ($347k), Pennsylvania Environmental Council Inc ($150k).
- Does The Collins Companies Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Collins Companies 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 Collins Companies Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Northwest Charitable Foundation, The Ford Family Foundation, Community Foundation of the Northern Alleghenies.
- Where is The Collins Companies Foundation based?
- The Collins Companies Foundation is based in MN.
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