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· Private foundation
The Collins Family Foundation Inc
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$8k
Granted FY2020
30
Grants
3
Communities
$600
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2020 · 30 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$240
Median grant
3
States reached
$70k
Total assets
Largest grants
- KLRN Public TV$600
- San Antonio Food Bank$550
- Partners in Health$550
- Edgewood ISD Foundation$500
- Missouri State Univ Swim Team$500
- San Antonio Symphony$500
- Texas Public Radio$400
- Stacie Lee Belew Scholarship Fund$400
- Friends of Big Bend Natl Park$350
- McNay Art Musuem$300
- Headwaters at Incarnate Word$250
- Native Plant Society of Texas$250
- Carver Cultural Center$250
- San Antonio Museum of Art$250
- KRTU Radio$240
02The need
02
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $200) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
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.
1
Museum of South Texas History
To preserve and present the borderland heritage of south texas and northeastern mexico.
Arts & Culture
2
Glasstire
Glasstire is an online magazine for visual art in Texas.
Arts & Culture
3
San Antonio Report
Publishing a local online news source. We believe a well informed and connected community is essential to making San Antonio a better place to live, work and play.
Arts & Culture
4
Houston Museum of Natural Science
The Houston Museum of Natural Science (HMNS) serves as a valuable resources for the Houston community, offering extensive collections, exciting interactive exhibits, immersive environments, engaging films, compelling traveling exhibitions,…
Arts & Culture
5
Texas State Aquarium Association
The texas state aquarium's mission is engaging people with animals, inspiring appreciation for our seas, and supporting wildlife conservation. its vision is to be a global leader in fostering support for the conservation of the gulf of…
Animals
6
Texas Association of Museums
To strengthen the Texas museum community by collaborations, professional development and advocacy
Arts & Culture
7
The McCombs School of Business
To provide support to The University of Texas McCombs School of Business.
Education
8
Taos Art Museum
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9
Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
10
Tennis Officials of San Antonio Association
Recreation & Sports
11
TexArts Association for Visual &
TexARTS is an arts education and performance destination that builds character, professionalism, and careers. Its mission is to cultivate a thriving arts community by exposing all people to the visual and performing arts.
Arts & Culture
12
San Antonio Regional Hospital
Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of the people we serve.
Health
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Witte Museum and the most unlike its peers is Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network
12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$5,855Arts & Culture$1,050Philanthropy$350Environment$250Crime & Legal$250Human Services$200Education$200
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 San Antonio Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Texas Public Radio ↗
- Who funds Friends of Big Bend Natl Park ↗
- Who funds Native Plant Society of Texas ↗
- Who funds Headwaters at Incarnate Word ↗
- Who funds San Antonio Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds Witte Museum ↗
- Who funds Southwest School of Art ↗
- Who funds House of Neighborly Service ↗
- Who funds Texas Tribune ↗
- Who funds San Antonio Public Library Foundation ↗
- Who funds Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center ↗
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.
San Antonio Area FoundationTX20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · William & Salome McAllen Scanlan · Jack and Doris Smothers and Bud Smothers · Hixon Family Foundation · Marcia & Otto Koehler Foundation · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · Muriel F Siebert Foundation Inc · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable · John L Santikos Charitable 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 organisation The Collins Family Foundation Inc 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Headwaters at Incarnate Word.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~37 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.4× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 465515608 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Headwaters at Incarnate Word, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 37 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 0% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to The Collins Family Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to The Collins Family Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The camps
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By state
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State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines