Rhode Island · Private foundation
The Collis Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2024
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 19
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $87M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 21% of the organizations The Collis Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $460k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 22 | $2.5M | 32% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $2.0M | 21% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $1.9M | 47% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $933k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $1.1M | 29% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $1.1M | 18% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $630k | 38% |
| FY2017 | 12 | $613k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pencils of Promise Incorporated | $3,250,000 | 7 | 18% |
| Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra & Music School | $1,000,000 | 1 | 15% |
| San Miguel Education Center | $890,309 | 8 | 10% |
| The Benjamin Private School Inc | $355,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Amos House | $300,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Rhode Island Community Food Bank Association | $300,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Lord's Place Inc | $300,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Wake Forest University | $250,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Global Lyme Alliance Inc | $221,900 | 4 | 5% |
| Bryant University | $200,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Collis Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Banknewport Charitable Foundation Inc · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Gilbane Family Foundation · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · Mary D Chafee Fund Co Mark Chafee · Ress Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Collis Foundation
- How much does The Collis Foundation give?
- The Collis Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $2,460,309 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Collis Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (44%), Health (18%), Arts & Culture (10%).
- Who are The Collis Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Pencils of Promise Incorporated ($3.3M), Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra & Music School ($1.0M), San Miguel Education Center ($890k).
- Does The Collis Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Collis Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Collis Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Rhode Island Community Foundation, United Way of Rhode Island Inc, Citizens Charitable Foundation.
- Where is The Collis Foundation based?
- The Collis Foundation is based in RI.
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