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The Vicky Collins Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Vicky Collins Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$135k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$1.3MCrime & Legal$274kHuman Services$248kYouth Development$15kFood & Nutrition$5kPhilanthropy$2k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEIGHBOURHOOD HEALTH$75,000
DOORWAYS$20,000
SCAN OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA$15,000
VHC HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
REAL FOOD FOR KIDS$5,000
ASPIRE AFTERSCHOOL LEARNING$5,000
ARLINGTON COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION$2,500
ARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,500
NORTHERN VIRGINIA ALLIANCE LEAGUE$1,000
TOWER VILLAS HOLIDAY GIFT$100
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%ASPIRE AFTERSCHOOL LEARNING: $5k → 7%ASPIRE AFTERSCHOOL LEARNING: $3k → 7%ASPIRE AFTERSCHOOL LEARNING: $3k → 7%ASPIRE AFTERSCHOOL LEARNING: $3k → 7%ASPIRE AFTERSCHOOL LEARNING: $3k → 7%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.
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 7 repeat orgs$93k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against -27% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
1

Total granted

$1.8M
$250

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
-27%

Still filing today

86%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k 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
Youth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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

  • DF
    DOORWAYS FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $38k · revenue +31%
  • PS
    POSTPARTUM SUPPORT VIRGINIA INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $17k · revenue +175%
  • AA
    ASPIRE AFTERSCHOOL LEARNING
    5× · 2021–2025 · $15k · revenue +92%

Funded once

  • TP
    THE PETER B TEELEY CHILDRENS CHARITIES FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $250 · revenue -27%
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
Virginia Press Foundation Virginia Local News Project
Civil Rights
2
Arlington Food Assistance Center

To provide dignified access to free groceries for qualified families in Arlington, VA and surrounding counties.

Food & Nutrition
3
Alliance for Children Inc

Comprehensive network for children

—
4
Northern Virginia Health Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Arlington Partners Charitable Foundation Inc
—
6
Virginia Congress of Parents and Teachers

Education/Charitable

—
7
Northern Virginia Family Services Inc

The mission of northern virginia family service (nvfs) is "to empower individuals and families to improve their quality of life, and to promote community cooperation and support in responding to family needs." nvfs was established in 1924…

Human Services
8
Clothesline for Arlington Kids

Our mission is to provide free clothing for school-aged children from low-income families in a dignified setting - through community donations partner support and purchased essentials - so they can feel comfortable and confident to learn…

Education
9
Urban Baby Beginnings dba Ubb

To provide community support, workforce development, and advocacy for birthing and postpartum families.

Human Services
10
Arlington Eye Clinic Inc
Health
11
Arlington Unitarian Cooperative Preschool

Arlington Unitarian Cooperative Preschool is a child-centered cooperative preschool with the mission of developing and encouraging the social intellectual and physical development of the children in its care. It is a half-day program…

Human Services
12
The Virginia and Alfred Harrell Foundation
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Doorways for Women and Families Inc; the most unlike its peers is Real Food for Kids. 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

10 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. 10 of the 14 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
4/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arlington Pediatric Center Inc: $1,225,507 · OtherArlington Pediatric Center IncSCAN OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC: $271,000 · OtherSCAN OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INCDOORWAYS: $208,500 · OtherDOORWAYSNEIGHBOURHOOD HEALTH: $75,000 · Other+5 more: $52,100 · OtherPOSTPARTUM SUPPORT VIRGINIA INC: $17,000 · PhilanthropyARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,500 · PhilanthropyASPIRE AFTERSCHOOL LEARNING: $15,000 · Human ServicesReal Food for Kids: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE PETER B TEELEY CHILDRENS CHARITIES FOUNDATION INC: $250 · Youth Development
Other$1,832,107Philanthropy$18,500Human Services$15,000Youth Development$5,250

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetArlington Pediatric Center Inc: $1,225,507 over 8y, 89% of budgetSCAN OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC: $271,000 over 9y, 13% of budgetDOORWAYS FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC: $38,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPOSTPARTUM SUPPORT VIRGINIA INC: $17,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetASPIRE AFTERSCHOOL LEARNING: $15,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetReal Food for Kids: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetARLINGTON COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetNORTHERN VIRGINIA ALLIANCE LEAGUE: $1,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PETER B TEELEY CHILDRENS CHARITIES FOUNDATION INC: $250 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.

Washington Forrest Fo…Arlington Community F…The Morris and Gwendo…Greater Washington Co…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Washington Forrest FoundationVA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Washington Forrest Foundation · Arlington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Vicky Collins Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Vicky Collins Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 Vicky Collins Charitable Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Vicky Collins Charitable Foundation Inc 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 14 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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