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The Colliswarner Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY$10,000
NAZARETH HOUSING INC$10,000
THE VIVA SCHOOL$10,000
EDUSTAR$7,500
YMCA OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD$5,000
SHERIFFS MEADOW FOUNDATION$5,000
GOLF MY FUTURE MY GAME$5,000
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF SOUTH RICHMOND$2,500
VIRGINIA PUBLIC ACCESS PROJECT$2,500
02The need
03

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 (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. Its 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%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2k → 8%THE CAMPAGNA CENTER: $3k → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
VA
MD
DC
TX
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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%
How this is measured

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

04Its 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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

61 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. 61 of the 82 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/61
Grantees still filing
44/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's 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
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 82 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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