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The Collins Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k112 grants · $3.2M
- $50k–250k72 grants · $6.4M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHWEST HEALTH FOUNDATION FUND II | $360,000 |
| NETWORK FOR OREGON AFFORDABLE HOUSING SUITE 245 | $250,000 |
| ALBINA VISION TRUST INC | $250,000 |
| SELF ENHANCEMENT INC | $250,000 |
| LATINO NETWORK | $203,000 |
| FOUNDATIONS FOR A BETTER OREGON | $200,000 |
| APANO COMMUNITIES UNITED FUND | $200,000 |
| MICRO ENTERPRISE SERVICES OF OREGON | $200,000 |
| CONSTRUCTING HOPE PRE-APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM | $200,000 |
| REGIONAL ARTS & CULTURE COUNCIL | $200,000 |
| NORTHWEST HEALTH FOUNDATION FUND II | $180,000 |
| OPEN SCHOOL INC | $150,000 |
| OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| TALENT MAKER CITY | $150,000 |
| HEART OF OREGON CORPS INC | $150,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $9.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 16% of The Collins Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in OR; read by stated purpose it is 81% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
543 repeat relationships — 142 still active in FY2024, 401 since wound down; 43 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- NHNORTHWEST HEALTH FOUNDATION FUND II7× · 2018–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +96%
Latino Network7× · 2018–2024 · $792k · revenue +256%
THE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION6× · 2018–2023 · $615k · revenue +139%
Funded once
- GGRANTSone grant, 2017 · $10M
- FFFOUNDATIONS FOR A BETTER OREGON (CHALKBOARD PROJECT)one grant, 2018 · $252k
- SESELF ENHANCEMENT INCone grant, 2018 · $185k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…
Promote economic and social fairness by working in coalition open a broad range of issues and activities in the public arena
Next up amplifies the voice of diverse youth to achieve a more just oregon
Welcome Home is a diverse coalition in the Portland metropolitan region that uses its collective resources to create healthy communities by ensuring everyone has an affordable and stable home. We use community education and collaboration…
Oregon Self Advocacy Coalition supports local self advocacy groups in engaging communities to advocate for the rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to participate, belong, and contribute as valued community…
To support public policies that will help oregon's economy and create new family supporting jobs in oregon.
Advocate for policies that protect and promote healthy and health equity for all people in oregon and provide learning, collaboration and leadership opportunities for public health professionals and the broader community.
To accelerate inclusive economic prosperity in lane county, oregon
Develop educational network to communicate historical and scientific information empasizing natural and cultural resources to pacific northwest.
Portland Harbor Community Coalition (PHCC) organizes frontline groups and individuals to heal the water, land, and air in and around the Wa'lmaomt (Willamette River) federal Superfund area, polluted from over a century of heavy industrial…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Native American Youth and Family Center and the most unlike its peers is Painted Sky Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
845 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 845 of the 972 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 SEEDING JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATIONS FOR A BETTER OREGON ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HEALTH FOUNDATION FUND II ↗
- Who funds THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAUSA OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds Latino Network ↗
- Who funds BLACK UNITED FUND OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds THE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds ALBINA VISION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds MICRO ENTERPRISE SERVICES OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds APANO COMMUNITIES UNITED FUND ↗
- Who funds CAPACES LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds REAP INC ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND OPPORTUNITIES INDUST CENTER ↗
- Who funds RURAL ORGANIZING PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST NATIVE CHAMBER ↗
- Who funds COALITION OF COMMUNITIES OF COLOR ↗
- Who funds JOIN ↗
- Who funds HACIENDA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE OREGON ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds OPEN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SELF ENHANCEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PORTLAND METROPOLITAN AREA ↗
- Who funds IMAGINE BLACK FUTURES ↗
- Who funds AYCO ↗
- Who funds Verde Inc ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Oregon Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRO CULTURAL OF WASHINGTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WESTERN STATES CENTER ↗
- Who funds EQUITABLE GIVING CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds WARM SPRINGS COMMUNITY ACTION TEAM ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRATION COUNSELING SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds EL PROGRAMA HISPANO CATOLICO ↗
- Who funds ADELANTE MUJERES ↗
- Who funds BIENESTAR INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Meyer Memorial Trust · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Autzen Foundation · Seeding Justice · Ronald W Naito Md Foundation · James F & Marion L Miller Foundation · The Jackson Foundation · Juan Young Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Careoregon Inc · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Roundhouse 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 organization The Collins Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Lomakatsi Restoration Project — 100% of income from government
- Elso Inc — 100% of income from government
- Pueblo Unido Pdx — 100% of income from government
- Community Alliance of Tenants — 100% of income from government
- Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center — 100% of income from government
- Wallowa Resources Inc — 100% of income from government
- Ayco — 89% of income from government
- Philippine American Chamber of Commerce of Oregon — 86% of income from government
- Horizon Project Inc — 84% of income from government
- Albina Head Start Inc — 81% of income from government
- On-the-Move Community Integration — 81% of income from government
- Northwest Health Foundation Fund Ii — 81% of income from government
- Salemkeizer Coalition for Equality — 77% of income from government
- Haven From Domestic Violence — 77% of income from government
- African Family Holistic Health Organization — 76% of income from government
- Lines for Life — 70% of income from government
- The Harbor Inc — 66% of income from government
- Call to Safety — 61% of income from government
- Transponder — 58% of income from government
- Hiv Alliance — 54% of income from government
- Artists Repertory Theatre — 48% of income from government
- Hacienda Community Development Corporation — 48% of income from government
- Reap Inc — 46% of income from government
- Oregon Tradeswomen Inc — 46% of income from government
- De Rose Community Bridge and Holistic Wellness — 44% of income from government
- Reach Inc — 42% of income from government
- Neighborhood Partnerships Inc — 40% of income from government
- The Next Door Inc — 39% of income from government
- Educate Ya Inc — 38% of income from government
- Portland Opportunities Indust Center — 38% of income from government
- Portland Community Reinvestment Initiatives Inc — 36% of income from government
- Clackamas Women's Services — 33% of income from government
- Outside in — 33% of income from government
- Urban League of Portland Inc — 33% of income from government
- Adelante Mujeres — 31% of income from government
- Partners for a Hunger Free Oregon — 31% of income from government
- Relief Nursery Inc — 30% of income from government
- Transition Projects Inc — 29% of income from government
- Holla — 29% of income from government
- Samoa Pacific Development Corporation — 28% of income from government
- Heart of Oregon Corps Inc — 28% of income from government
- Friends of Zenger Farm — 28% of income from government
- Warm Springs Community Action Team — 28% of income from government
- Elevate Oregon — 28% of income from government
- The Wallace Medical Concern — 27% of income from government
- United Way of the Columbia-Willamette — 25% of income from government
- Oregon Community Warehouse Inc — 24% of income from government
- College Dreams Inc — 23% of income from government
- Native American Youth and Family Center — 23% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- New Avenues for Youth Inc — 20% of income from government
- Capaces Leadership Institute — 20% of income from government
- Immigration Counseling Service Inc — 20% of income from government
- Regional Accelerator & Innovation Network — 20% of income from government
- Kairospdx — 19% of income from government
- Reach Community Development Inc — 18% of income from government
- Euvalcree — 18% of income from government
- Asian Health & Service Center Inc — 18% of income from government
- Willamette Valley Law Project Dba Pcun Foundation — 18% of income from government
- African American Alliance for Homeownership — 17% of income from government
- The Uprise Collective — 17% of income from government
- Ne Steam Coalition — 17% of income from government
- Human Solutions Inc Dba Our Just Future — 17% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Corvallis Inc — 16% of income from government
- Latino Network — 15% of income from government
- Coalition of Communities of Color — 15% of income from government
- Ywca of Greater Portland — 15% of income from government
- Self Enhancement Inc — 14% of income from government
- Ecotrust — 14% of income from government
- El Programa Hispano Catolico — 13% of income from government
- Cascade Aids Project — 13% of income from government
- Beyond Toxics — 13% of income from government
- Voz Workers Rights Education Project — 12% of income from government
- Ethiopian and Eritrean Cultural and Resource Cente — 12% of income from government
- Latino Community Association — 11% of income from government
- Caritas Community Housing Corp — 11% of income from government
- Rural Development Initiatives Inc — 11% of income from government
- Proud Ground — 11% of income from government
- High Desert Museum — 11% of income from government
- Central City Concern — 10% of income from government
- Bradley Angle — 10% of income from government
- The Blueprint Foundation — 10% of income from government
- Literary Arts Inc — 10% of income from government
- Outgrowing Hunger — 9% of income from government
- Oregon Natural Desert Association — 9% of income from government
- Mosaic Community Health — 8% of income from government
- Familias en Accion — 8% of income from government
- Impact Nw — 8% of income from government
- Bienestar Inc — 8% of income from government
- La Clinica Del Valle Family Health Care Center Inc — 7% of income from government
- Rogue Climate — 7% of income from government
- Community Development Corporation of Oregon — 7% of income from government
- Community Alliance of Lane County — 7% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of the Columbia Willamette Inc — 7% of income from government
- Josephy Center for Arts and Culture — 7% of income from government
- Clackamas Volunteers in Medicine — 7% of income from government
- Farmworker Housing Development Corporation — 7% of income from government
- Oregon Recovers — 6% of income from government
- Nonprofit Association of Oregon — 6% of income from government
- Growing Gardens — 6% of income from government
- Miracle Theatre Group — 6% of income from government
- Portland Institute for Contemporary Art — 5% of income from government
- Free Geek — 5% of income from government
- Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon — 5% of income from government
- Open School Inc — 5% of income from government
- Together We Are Greater Than — 5% of income from government
- Marion-Polk Food Share Inc — 5% of income from government
- Friends of the Children-Portland — 5% of income from government
- Food for Lane County — 5% of income from government
- The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization — 4% of income from government
- Linfield University — 4% of income from government
- Portland Chinatown History Foundation — 4% of income from government
- Join — 4% of income from government
- Girls Inc of the Pacific Northwest — 4% of income from government
- Volunteers in Medicine Clinic of the Cascades — 3% of income from government
- The Rosewood Initiative — 3% of income from government
- Verde Inc — 3% of income from government
- Wallowa Land Trust — 3% of income from government
- The Oregon Community Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Constructing Hope Pre-Apprenticeship Program — 2% of income from government
- Tillamook County Community Action Resource Enterprises Inc — 2% of income from government
- Regional Arts & Culture Council — 1% of income from government
- Metroeast Community Media — 1% of income from government
- Rose Community Development Corporat — 1% of income from government
- Portland Community Media — 1% of income from government
- Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- All Ages Music Portland dba Friends of Noise — 1% of income from government
- Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Outside the Frame — 1% of income from government
- Black United Fund of Oregon — 1% of income from government
- Columbia Riverkeeper — 1% of income from government
- PassinArt - a Theater Company — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Public Broadcasting — 1% of income from government
- Womens Foundation of Oregon — 0% of income from government
- Oregon Black Pioneers Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Network for Oregon Affordable Housing — 0% of income from government
- The Campbell Institute — 0% of income from government
- Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc — 0% of income from government
- National Indian Child Welfare Association — 0% of income from government
- Basic Rights Education Fund — 0% of income from government
- Centro Cultural of Washington County — 0% of income from government
- Seeding Justice — 0% of income from government
- Portland State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
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 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.
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