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The Colliswarner Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$148k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$890kEducation$503kPhilanthropy$395kPublic Benefit$288kArts & Culture$257kEnvironment$137kAnimals$100kInternational$85kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $120k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS NOVA$25,000
US AGAINST ALZHEIMER'S$25,000
VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION$25,000
VIRGINIA PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION$15,000
NAZARETH HOUSING INC$10,000
THE VIVA SCHOOL$10,000
VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY$10,000
EDUSTAR$7,500
YMCA OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD$5,000
SHERIFFS MEADOW FOUNDATION$5,000
GOLF MY FUTURE MY GAME$5,000
VIRGINIA PUBLIC ACCESS PROJECT$2,500
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF SOUTH RICHMOND$2,500
02The need
03

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 (FY17–22, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MV COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2k → 8%MV COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1k → 8%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES: $3k → 8%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2k → 8%THE CAMPAGNA CENTER: $3k → 9%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
VA
MD
DC
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.0M · 23 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

23 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
49

Total granted

$2.0M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+28%

Still filing today

91%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationFood & NutritionInternationalArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

  • VH
    Virginia Health Care Foundation
    2× · 2017–2018 · $505k · revenue +30%
  • TP
    The Potomac School
    4× · 2019–2022 · $200k · revenue +42%
  • U
    USAGAINSTALZHEIMER'S
    6× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • VN
    VIRGINIA NAVIGATOR
    one grant, 2021 · $200k
  • TS
    TALL SHIP PROVIDENCE FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $125k
  • REWILDgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +550%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
University of Virginia Foundation

To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…

Education
2
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
3
Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation

Vipc grows and diversifies virginia's economy by investing in and accelerating innovation commercialization and entrepreneurship.

Science & Tech
4
Virginia Community Action Partnership Inc

Virginia community action partnership (vacap) is the statewide membership association for virginia's thirty-one non-profit and public community action agencies. vacaps mission is to build the capacity and competencies of virginias…

Human Services
5
Federation of Virginia Food Banks

Facilitating statewide collaboration among Virginia's food banks, partners, and neighbors to improve nutrition security and empower strong, healthy communities.

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6
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…

Health
7
Vcu Investment Management Company

To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…

Education
8
Virginia Tech Applied Research Corporation

The mission of vt-arc is to extend the impact of the virginia tech research and innovation enterprise, delivering superior analytic and technology solutions to government and non-government customers.

Science & Tech
9
National College Advising Corps Inc

College advising corps (cac) is the nation's largest nonprofit service organization dedicated to advancing educational equity and expanding opportunity for all high school students. cac provides college enrollment and career guidance to…

Education
10
Virginia Foundation for Agriculture Innovation and Rural Sustainability

To assist rural virginians in developing and advancing their agricultural, economic and social interests to enhance their quality of life.

Environment
11
University of Virginia Law School Foundation

The university of virginia law school foundation's primary purpose is to receive, manage and expend funds for the benefit of the university of virginia school of law.

Education
12
Virginia Community Food Connections

Our mission is to ensure the availability, access, and affordability of locally produced food by connecting local farmers and all members of the community through programs, awareness, and advocacy.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Golf My Future Mygame. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr18%19%10–20yr14%34%20–35yr15%28%35–55yr15%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr18%24%10–20yr14%44%20–35yr15%7%35–55yr15%24%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/61
the rest of the field
13%
6,445/50,407

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.

04the grantee network

61 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. 61 of the 82 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/61
Grantees still filing
44/61
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Youth Invest Partners Inc — $255,000 · OtherYouth Invest Partners IncIndividual grant recipient — $200,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientVIRGINIA NAVIGATOR — $200,000 · OtherVIRGINIA NAVIGATORTALL SHIP PROVIDENCE FUND — $125,000 · OtherTALL SHIP PROVIDENCE FUNDTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $110,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NOVA INC — $70,000 · OtherINOVA HEALTH — $50,000 · OtherVILCAP INC — $50,000 · Other+45 more — $430,140 · Other+45 moreVirginia Health Care Foundation — $505,000 · HealthVirginia Health Care Foundat…USAGAINSTALZHEIMER'S — $200,000 · HealthUSAGAINSTALZHEIMER'SBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $100,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1DThe Potomac School — $200,000 · EducationThe Potomac S…THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSIT…Teach for America Inc — $40,000 · EducationTeach for Ame…VIRGINIA LATINO HIGHER EDUCATION NETWORK — $25,000 · EducationVIRGINIA LATI…DREAM PROJECT INC — $20,000 · EducationDREAM PROJECT…VA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT COLLEGES — $17,500 · Education+3 more — $20,000 · Education+3 moreTHE MENOKIN FOUNDATION — $142,500 · PhilanthropyGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $15,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF FAITH AND JUSTICE — $10,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $8,000 · PhilanthropyPRESIDENTIAL PRECINCT — $65,000 · InternationalFONKOZE USA INC — $50,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $25,000 · InternationalBROTHER'S BROTHER FOUNDATION — $20,000 · International+2 more — $10,000 · InternationalREWILD — $100,000 · AnimalsTHE WASHINGTON BALLET — $40,000 · Arts & CultureCITYDANCE ENSEMBLE INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureGOLF MY FUTURE MYGAME — $15,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES AND PUBLIC POLICY — $14,000 · Arts & CultureJAMESTOWN-YORKTOWN FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,490,140Health$805,000Education$372,500Philanthropy$175,500International$170,000Animals$100,000Arts & Culture$99,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVirginia Health Care Foundation — $505,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetYouth Invest Partners Inc — $255,000 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetThe Potomac School — $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUSAGAINSTALZHEIMER'S — $200,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetTHE MENOKIN FOUNDATION — $142,500 over 6y, 6.6% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $110,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetREWILD — $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NOVA INC — $70,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetPRESIDENTIAL PRECINCT — $65,000 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetVILCAP INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFONKOZE USA INC — $50,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetYMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc — $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON BALLET — $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetVIRGINIA LATINO HIGHER EDUCATION NETWORK — $25,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetTHE 30 DAY FUND INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROTHER'S BROTHER FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDREAM PROJECT INC — $20,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCITYDANCE ENSEMBLE INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetVA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT COLLEGES — $17,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetGOLF MY FUTURE MYGAME — $15,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetPROJECT GIVE BACK TO COMMUNITY — $15,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetVIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES AND PUBLIC POLICY — $14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNAZARETH HOUSING INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAMESTOWN-YORKTOWN FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEED MORE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA PENINSULA FOODBANK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREDERICKSBURG REGIONAL FOOD BANK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $8,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetACT FOR ALEXANDRIA — $7,640 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOLVE ME CFS INITIATIVE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Commonwealth Institute for — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArlington Food Assistance Center — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Dominion Energy Chari…Greater Washington Co…The Community Foundat…Act for AlexandriaThe Community Foundat…Washington Forrest Fo…Arlington Community F…Robins FoundationCharlottesville Area …Truist Foundation IncThe Ayco Charitable F…Williams Mullen Found…
Dominion Energy Charitable FoundationVA27.9× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · Act for Alexandria · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · Washington Forrest Foundation · Arlington Community Foundation · Robins Foundation · Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Williams Mullen 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 Colliswarner 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Sheriff's Meadow Foundation — 2% of income from government
  • Yellow Ribbon Fund Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 82 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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