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The Collins Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it funds
0161% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$6kEnvironment$4kRecreation & Sports$3kHuman Services$250Other$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TESPTO$1,000
Society for the Protection of NH Forests$325
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.

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 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
Massachusetts Land Conservation Trust

Conservation and preservation of land.

Environment
2
East Quabbin Land Trust Inc

To foster the sustainable use of our natural and historic resources for the benefit of all generations through the conservation and stewardship of the farmlands, woodlands, and water in our region of massachusetts.

Environment
3
Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc

Sudbury valley trustees, inc. ("the organization") works to protect natural areas and farmland for wildlife and people in the 36 communities that surround the sudbury, assabet, and concord rivers. the organization cares for some of the…

Environment
4
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
5
Aspetuck Land Trust

Founded in 1966, Aspetuck Land Trust is a non-profit membership ogranization whose mission is to protect land forever and connect people to the natural world.

Environment
6
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition
7
Wildlands Trust Inc

The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…

Environment
8
Preserve Rhode Island

Preserve ri's vision is a future where historic preservation creates positive change, making our diverse cultures, the environment, and the economy better for the people who live, visit and work in rhode island. preserve ri's mission is to…

Arts & Culture
9
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
10
Bartlett Arboretum Association Inc

To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.

Environment
11
Essex Land Trust Inc

Land conservation and management

Environment
12
Greater Worcester Land Trust

The greater worcester land trust promotes the protection, stewardship and appreciation of open space to enhance the quality of life and functioning of natural systems in worcester and the region.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Reservations; the most unlike its peers is Puritan Lawn Memorial Park Education 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.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONAmerican Battlefield Trust: $500 · Arts & CultureAmerican Battlefield Trust+1 more: $100 · Arts & CultureESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION: $2,500 · EnvironmentESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIAT…THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $1,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONSBLACK WARRIOR RIVERKEEPER INC: $250 · EnvironmentBLACK WARRIOR RIVERKEEPER INCPURITAN LAWN MEMORIAL PARK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · EducationPURITAN LAWN MEMORIA…TESPTO: $1,000 · OtherTESPTOSociety for the Protection of NH Forests: $325 · OtherSociety fo…AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM INC: $250 · Human ServicesSoutheast Land Trust of New Hampshire: $250 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$5,600Environment$3,750Education$2,500Other$1,325Human Services$250Philanthropy$250

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPURITAN LAWN MEMORIAL PARK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Battlefield Trust: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM INC: $250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSoutheast Land Trust of New Hampshire: $250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBLACK WARRIOR RIVERKEEPER INC: $250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetIPSWICH MUSEUM INC: $100 over 2y, 0.1% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Essex County Greenbelt Association: 8% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.

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 11 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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