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The Collins Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Collins Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$8k
Granted FY2020
30
Grants FY2020
3
States reached
$600
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2020 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$240
Median grant
3
States reached
$70k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$600
San Antonio Food Bank$550
Partners in Health$550
Individual grant recipient$500
Missouri State Univ Swim Team$500
Edgewood ISD Foundation$500
Stacie Lee Belew Scholarship Fund$400
Texas Public Radio$400
Friends of Big Bend Natl Park$350
Individual grant recipient$300
San Antonio Museum of Art$250
Carver Cultural Center$250
Native Plant Society of Texas$250
Headwaters at Incarnate Word$250
Individual grant recipient$240
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $200) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%House of Neighborly Service: $200 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
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
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
2
San Antonio Automobile Dealers Association Foundation Inc
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3
San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts

The mission of the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts shall be to establish and maintain a museum in order to house and exhibit a permanent collection of art as well as to provide space for traveling exhibitions, for the purpose of the…

Arts & Culture
4
Tennis Officials of San Antonio Association
Recreation & Sports
5
San Anto Cultural Arts

To foster human and community development through community-based arts.

Arts & Culture
6
Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
7
Glasstire

Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture
8
San Antonio Medical Foundation

The mission of the san antonio medical foundation is to improvehealth care, advance biomedical science, and enhance communitywell-being by providing leadership & active stewardship of our landand other assets.

Health
9
San Antonio River Foundation

Through its outreach, whether through educational field trips or public art, the san antonio river foundation's goal is to inspire stewardship and broader public conservation of the 240 miles of the san antonio river and its native…

Environment
10
Greater Satx

The mission of greater:satx is to lead the developemnt and diversification of san antonio regional economy through the recruitment and expansion of qualify employers and job producing investments.

—
11
Arboretum San Antonio

Arboretum San Antonio (ASA), a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2021, is building a world-class arboretum on the former Republic Golf Course in the heart of San Antonios historic Southside. The first in San Antonio and the…

Environment
12
Site Santa Fe

Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Witte Museum; the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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

17 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. 17 of the 30 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/17
Grantees still filing
15/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $600 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK: $550 · OtherSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANKMissouri State Univ Swim Team: $500 · OtherMissouri State Univ Swim TeamEdgewood ISD Foundation: $500 · OtherEdgewood ISD FoundationIndividual grant recipient: $500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientStacie Lee Belew Scholarship Fund: $400 · OtherStacie Lee Belew Scholarship FundIndividual grant recipient: $300 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCarver Cultural Center: $250 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $240 · OtherSOUTHWEST SCHOOL OF ART: $200 · OtherRivard Report (now San Antonio Report): $200 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $190 · OtherTEXAS TRIBUNE INC: $200 · Other+6 more: $675 · Other+6 moreTEXAS PUBLIC RADIO: $400 · Arts & CultureTEXAS PUBLIC R…SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART: $250 · Arts & CultureSAN ANTONIO MU…Witte Museum: $200 · Arts & CultureWitte MuseumSAN ANTONIO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $100 · Arts & CultureSAN ANTONIO PU…GUADALUPE CULTURAL ARTS CENTER: $100 · Arts & CultureGUADALUPE CULT…PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $550 · HealthNative Plant Society of Texas: $250 · EnvironmentWILDFLOWER DONOR INC: $200 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK: $350 · PhilanthropyHeadwaters at Incarnate Word Inc: $250 · Crime & LegalHouse of Neighborly Service of San Antonio Texas: $200 · Human Services
Other$5,305Arts & Culture$1,050Health$550Environment$450Philanthropy$350Crime & Legal$250Human Services$200

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK: $550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS PUBLIC RADIO: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK: $350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNative Plant Society of Texas: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHeadwaters at Incarnate Word Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHouse of Neighborly Service of San Antonio Texas: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWitte Museum: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILDFLOWER DONOR INC: $200 over 1y, 97% of budgetSOUTHWEST SCHOOL OF ART: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS TRIBUNE INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN ANTONIO METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAY SI: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN ANTONIO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUADALUPE CULTURAL ARTS CENTER: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

San Antonio Area Foun…Elizabeth Huth Coates…Nancy Smith Hurd Foun…Faye L & William L Co…John L Santikos Chari…The Williamson Founda…Hixon Family Foundati…The Charles Butt Foun…Marcia & Otto Koehler…The Texas Cavaliers C…Pryor Myra Stafford C…Betty Stieren Kelso F…
San Antonio Area FoundationTX21.7× affinity8 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 Foundation of 1992 · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · The Williamson Foundation · Hixon Family Foundation · The Charles Butt Foundation · Marcia & Otto Koehler Foundation · The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 30 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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