Rhode Island · Nonprofit
Colage
Colage (Rhode Island) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $510,682 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($349,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $452k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $511k
- Net assets
- $125k
What Colage does
Mission
None
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
COLAGE provides forums, gatherings, and targeted programming for youth who have one or more LGBTQ+ parents with our largest annual program being Family Week. Family Week is a partnership with Family Equality to provide programming for over 500 families and their children for one week in Provincetown, MA. In 2023 , the event was held from July 23rd-28th. For COLAGE, the program serves as an incubator space to build and develop programs that are then brought to other local communities around the U.S. both virtually and in person. Additionally, for the first time, COLAGE held Atlanta Family Weekend, the first in what we hope will be regional LGBTQ+ family events we host throughout the country.COLAGE conducts educational programming to support people who have one or more LGBTQ+ parents. The core of this work is social justice that is facilitated through meetings, programs, and workshops. COLAGE is committed to empowering the next generation of changemakers andoperates a robust Youth Leadership program. The Youth Action Board is an ongoing leadership group of young people who provide input as well as production of outreach material. COLAGE also provides training through summits,…
$231,157 spent$29,231 earned by the program100% of program spendingEducational Programs and Youth LeadershipCOLAGE conducts educational programming to support people who have one or more LGBTQ+ parents. The core of this work is social justice that is facilitated through meetings, programs, and workshops. COLAGE is commited to empowering the next generation of change makers and operates a robust Youth Leadership program. The Youth Action Board is an ongoing leadership group of young people who provide input as well as production of outreach material. COLAGE also provides training through summits, mentoring, and opportunities to practice faciliaation skills in preparation for events like Family Week and other gatherings.
Other activities that support the organization's mission.
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $231,157.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $43k to $146k (+239%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
94% of Colage’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $31k → $185k.
5 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Colage’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Colage leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
26% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Colage.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 77% · 2021 61% · 2022 98% · 2023 90% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
0% of Colage's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 29% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
Colage draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Rhode Island, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $68k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Colage runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,798 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,798 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Colage
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Rhode Island
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Colage?
- Colage (Rhode Island) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $510,682 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($349,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Colage have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $510,682 in grants to Colage, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Colage?
- THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $349,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Colage find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 17 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing