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The Frank & Tracy Collins Charitable Fou

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$71k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 65% of THE FRANK & TRACY COLLINS CHARITABLE FOU’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$435k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DUKE UNIVERSITY$50,000
FRIENDS OF ZARA'S CENTER INC$20,000
THRIVE COOPERATIVE CENTER FOR WELLNESS$1,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–19, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOPE HOMES FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 13%HOPE HOMES FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 13%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
OH
CT
CA
NC
DC
AL
FL

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$691k · 8 repeat orgs$203k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +126% since the first grant, against -37% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
18

Total granted

$691k
$202k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+126%
-37%

Still filing today

50%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Civil RightsArts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $155k · revenue +3%
  • MC
    MID-FAIRFIELD CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $130k · revenue +126%
  • HH
    HOPE HOMES FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $30k · revenue +505%

Funded once

  • YU
    YALE UNIVERSITY PARENTS FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $35k
  • SW
    SAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $32k · revenue -23%
  • AM
    ACADEMY MUSEUM
    one grant, 2018 · $25k

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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
The Center for Medical Technology Policy Inc

To develop a health care system where patients, clinicians, health care policymakers, and payers have the evidence they need to make informed health decisions.

3
Western University of Health Sciences

To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.

4
The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation

The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.

5
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
6
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
7
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
8
American Bar Endowment

To make distributions to 501(c)(3) organizations including, in pact, to advance legal study and research and to promote the administration of justice and uniformity of judicial decision throughout the u.s.

Crime & Legal
9
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
10
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
12
City of Hope National Medical Center

City of Hope National Medical Center's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naacp Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hot Tubes Development Cycling Team Inc. 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

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 29 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $250,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIAMID-FAIRFIELD CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER INC — $130,000 · OtherMID-FAIRFIELD CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER INCFRIENDS OF ZARA'S CENTER INC — $40,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF ZARA'S CENTER INCYALE UNIVERSITY PARENTS FUND — $35,000 · OtherSAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $31,960 · OtherYALE PARENT'S FUND — $30,000 · OtherHOPE HOMES — $30,000 · OtherACADEMY MUSEUM — $25,000 · Other+13 more — $91,050 · Other+13 moreDUKE UNIVERSITY — $155,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $15,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTE…THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC — $100,600 · PhilanthropyTHE MIAMI F…HOPE HOMES FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesWESTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC — $26,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $5,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $5,000 · Civil Rights
Other$663,010Education$170,000Philanthropy$100,600Human Services$30,000Public Safety & Disaster$26,000Arts & Culture$10,000Civil Rights$10,000

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 budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $155,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMID-FAIRFIELD CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER INC — $130,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC — $100,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $31,960 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHOPE HOMES FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetWESTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC — $26,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOT TUBES DEVELOPMENT CYCLING TEAM INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds MID-FAIRFIELD CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER INC
  • Who funds THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds SAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds HOPE HOMES FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds WESTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds THE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC
  • Who funds HOT TUBES DEVELOPMENT CYCLING TEAM INC
  • Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE
  • Who funds THE THRIVE COOPERATIVE CENTER FOR WELLNESS 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amazonsmile 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 Frank & Tracy Collins Charitable Fou 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 30%
  • Mid-Fairfield Child Guidance Center Inc30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 29 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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