· Private foundation
William L & Lesley H Collins Family Foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k30 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
- $250k+1 grant · $370k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $370,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| HACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| STRIVE | $5,000 |
| DWIGHT ENGLEWOOD SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| TOMORROW'S HOPE FOUNDATION (NY) | $2,500 |
| ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NY - GALA | $2,500 |
| ST MATTHEW'S HOUSE OF NAPLES FL | $2,000 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY COLLINS SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $2,000 |
| CITYMEALS ON WHEELS | $1,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $1,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 28% of William L & Lesley H Collins Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
53 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 14 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, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $431k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SJST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK7× · 2017–2023 · $2.7M · revenue +12%
- DSDWIGHT-ENGLEWOOD SCHOOL7× · 2018–2024 · $41k · revenue +33%
- SISTRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC5× · 2018–2024 · $25k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +34%
- SJST JOHN'S UNIV-M&K SIMONS SCHOLARone grant, 2023 · $10k
- SJST JOHN'S UNIV-REVBTRACEY SCHone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
How this is measured
36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 107 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds DWIGHT-ENGLEWOOD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds STRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds READ TO LEAD INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds SPARKYOUTH NYC INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds Guadalupe Center Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Mutual of America Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · American Express Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization William L & Lesley H Collins Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William L & Lesley H Collins Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Kowiachobee Animal Preserve Inc: 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
- Guadalupe Center Inc: 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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