· Private foundation
The Lois M Collier Charitable Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $500k
- $250k+6 grants · $33M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMM FOUNDATION OF PB & MARTIN CNT | $15,361,836 |
| CITY HARVEST | $11,300,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN INDIANA | $2,550,000 |
| BRYN MAWR COLLEGE | $2,000,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE | $1,030,927 |
| DOE FUND | $500,000 |
| CITY MEALS ON WHEELS | $175,000 |
| EQUINE RESCUE RESOURCES INC | $125,000 |
| AMER SOC FOR PREV OF CRUELTY TO ANI | $100,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF JACKSONVILLE | $50,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC | $50,000 |
| HEART OF THE FOOTHILLS ANIMAL RESCU | $25,000 |
| IRREVERENT WARRIORS | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
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.
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 +27% since the first grant, against -21% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 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, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19M 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
CITY HARVEST INC5× · 2020–2024 · $16M · revenue +3%- BMBRYN MAWR COLLEGE5× · 2020–2024 · $8.0M · revenue +34%
THE DOE FUND INC5× · 2020–2024 · $700k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- HNHICKORY NUT GORGE OUTREACH INCone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -21%
- GHGENESIS HEALTH FOUNDATION DBA BROOKone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
New york common pantry reduces hunger while promoting dignity, health and self-sufficiency.
The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…
Fern seeks to make the food system more sustainable and equitable through powerful journalism and storytelling.
Lantern community services' mission is to champion the independence and well-being of people who are impacted by or threatened with homelessness.
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
Urban triage transforms culture, institutions, and communities to ensure a humane future.
See schedule oto promote housing stability and economic mobility among vulnerable families and individuals of new york city through the provision of homelessness prevention services, emergency family shelter, supportive housing, and urgent…
Since 1972, under 21, d.b.a. covenant house new york (chny) has been working with one of new york city's most vulnerable populations - youth experiencing homelessness, age 16-24, and their dependent children. chny provides young people…
Cases' mission is to increase public safety through innovative services that reduce crime and incarceration, improve behavioral health, promote recovery and rehabilitation, and create opportunities for success in the community. we believe…
Ywca is dedicated to empowering women and promoting peace, health, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.
The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Doe Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 17 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
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 CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds BRYN MAWR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE ↗
- Who funds THE DOE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds EQUINE RESCUE RESOURCE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF JACKSONVILLEINC ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
- Who funds IRREVERENT WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds HEART OF THE FOOTHILLS ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds HICKORY NUT GORGE OUTREACH 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.
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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 Lois M Collier Charitable Trust 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.
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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