· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| LAKE COUNTY FOOD SHARE | $45,000 |
| ALMANOR BASIN FOOD PANTRY | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 5% of The Collins Companies Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
27 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. 27 of the 57 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Collins Companies Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Collins Companies Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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