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The Sue & Bob McCollum Family Foundation

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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$3.7MHealth$2.2MEducation$290kRecreation & Sports$208kInternational$170kArts & Culture$68kCrime & Legal$60kCivil Rights$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $300k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $146k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$15,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$7.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHURCH AT THE RED DOOR$1,000,000
MENLO PARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$90,000
UNITED STATES SKI TEAM FOUNDATION$56,000
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF THE BIG WOOD$45,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$30,000
SAMARITANS PURSE$30,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$25,000
CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INC$25,000
BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION$20,000
IN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC$20,000
FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE$20,000
PATHWAYS HOME HEALTH AND HOSPICE$15,000
ST LUKES WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC$10,000
EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER$10,000
MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE INC$10,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF THE BIG WOOD: $60k → 7%MENLO PARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $120k → 7%FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE: $20k → 5%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $1.0M → 14%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $25k → 14%SAMARITANS PURSE: $30k → 21%UNITED STATES SKI TEAM FOUNDATION: $56k → 5%IN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC: $20k → 14%PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF THE BIG WOOD: $60k → 7%MENLO PARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $120k → 7%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $500k → 14%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $25k → 14%SAMARITANS PURSE: $30k → 21%UNITED STATES SKI TEAM FOUNDATION: $56k → 5%IN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC: $20k → 14%PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF THE BIG WOOD: $60k → 7%MENLO PARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $120k → 7%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $500k → 14%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $25k → 14%SAMARITANS PURSE: $30k → 21%UNITED STATES SKI TEAM FOUNDATION: $30k → 5%IN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC: $20k → 14%PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF THE BIG WOOD: $60k → 7%MENLO PARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $120k → 7%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $20k → 14%SAMARITANS PURSE: $30k → 21%UNITED STATES SKI TEAM FOUNDATION: $30k → 5%IN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC: $20k → 14%PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF THE BIG WOOD: $45k → 7%MENLO PARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $90k → 7%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $15k → 14%SAMARITANS PURSE: $30k → 21%UNITED STATES SKI TEAM FOUNDATION: $26k → 5%PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF THE BIG WOOD: $40k → 7%MENLO PARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $80k → 7%CHURCH AT THE RED DOOR: $1.0M → 11%SAMARITANS PURSE: $20k → 21%CHURCH AT THE RED DOOR: $1.0M → 11%CHURCH AT THE RED DOOR: $60k → 11%CHURCH AT THE RED DOOR: $60k → 11%CHURCH AT THE RED DOOR: $60k → 11%CHURCH AT THE RED DOOR: $40k → 11%CHURCH AT THE RED DOOR: $15k → 11%HOOVER INSTITUTION -STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $30k → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $30k → 8%HOOVER INSTITUTION -STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $30k → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $30k → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $30k → 8%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

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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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.5M · 23 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
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Total granted

$6.5M
$43k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+29%

Still filing today

70%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionHealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther
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

  • US
    United States Ski Team Foundation
    6× · 2020–2025 · $208k · revenue +82%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $170k · revenue +106%
  • IT
    IN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $100k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • SU
    STANFORD UNIVERSITY - HOOVER INSTITUTION
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
  • SV
    SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC - SUN VALLEY MUSIC
    one grant, 2022 · $6k
  • MC
    MARINERS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +29%
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.

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Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
2
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
3
University of Northwestern - St Paul

See schedule o. founded in 1902, university of northwestern - st. paul is a nondenominational christian university that integrates the educational philosophy of "faith, learning and living" through two focuses: higher education and media.…

Education
4
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
5
Loma Linda University

Loma linda university, a seventh-day adventist christian health sciences institution, seeks to further the healing and teaching ministry of jesus christ "to make man whole" by: - educating ethical and proficient christian health…

Education
6
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
7
Pacific School of Religion

Pacific school of religion prepares a diverse cadre of spiritually rooted leaders with the vision, resilience, and skill to create a world where all can thrive. grounded in the rigorous study and faithful practice of progressive christian…

Education
8
The Institute On Religion and Public Life Inc

The institute on religion and public life is an interreligious, nonpartisan research and educational 501(c)(3) organization. the institute's mission is to articulate a governing consensus that supports: (see schedule o)- a religiously…

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9
Dominican University of California

Our institutional mission is to educate and prepare students to be ethical leaders and socially responsible global citizens who incorporate the dominican values of study, reflection, community and service into their lives.

Education
10
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
11
Southern Wesleyan University

Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.

Education
12
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Usga Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum 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

22 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. 22 of the 31 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
18/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHURCH AT THE RED DOOR: $2,235,000 · OtherCHURCH AT THE RED DOORREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $2,000,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANMENLO PARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $650,000 · OtherMENLO PARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHPRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF THE BIG WOOD: $330,000 · OtherPRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF THE BIG WOOD+11 more: $492,500 · Other+11 moreSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $170,000 · ReligionIN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC: $100,000 · ReligionPRIORITY LIVING INC: $50,000 · Religion+1 more: $10,000 · ReligionTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $150,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $115,000 · EducationNORTHRISE UNIVERSITY INITIATIVE: $20,000 · EducationUnited States Ski Team Foundation: $208,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $200 · Recreation & SportsST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 · HealthEisenhower Medical Center: $50,000 · HealthSUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC: $28,000 · Arts & CultureKQED INC: $27,500 · Arts & CultureSUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureFRESH LIFELINES FOR YOUTH INC: $60,000 · Youth Development
Other$5,707,500Religion$330,000Education$285,000Recreation & Sports$208,200Health$155,000Arts & Culture$61,500Youth Development$60,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited States Ski Team Foundation: $208,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $170,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $150,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $115,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetIN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC: $100,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPATHWAYS HOME HEALTH AND HOSPICE: $78,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFRESH LIFELINES FOR YOUTH INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE BIBLE: $50,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPRIORITY LIVING INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CHURCH MISSIONS: $45,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC: $28,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKQED INC: $27,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHRISE UNIVERSITY INITIATIVE: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPurpose Driven Connection DBA Pastor Ricks Daily Hope: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARINERS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUSGA FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds United States Ski Team Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds IN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds PATHWAYS HOME HEALTH AND HOSPICE ↗
  • Who funds FRESH LIFELINES FOR YOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds SUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE ↗
  • Who funds FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds PRIORITY LIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL CHURCH MISSIONS ↗
  • Who funds THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds KQED INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHRISE UNIVERSITY INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds Purpose Driven Connection DBA Pastor Ricks Daily Hope ↗
  • Who funds SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC ↗
  • Who funds MARINERS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Silicon Valley Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds USGA FOUNDATION ↗

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.

American Endowment FoundationOH15.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Servant Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Sue & Bob McCollum Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sue & Bob McCollum Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s 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 · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Sue & Bob McCollum Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Sue & Bob McCollum Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 31 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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