Minnesota · Nonprofit
COLLIDER FOUNDATION
COLLIDER FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $608,863 to it, the largest being EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION ($250,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
COLLIDER FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,426 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,426 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Rochester Downtown Alliancelocal
- Cooperative Development Foundationportfolio match
- Mary T and James J Hill Library Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
5% of COLLIDER FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $36k → $99k.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 COLLIDER FOUNDATION’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
COLLIDER FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
45% 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 COLLIDER FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 51% — diversifying over time.
“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.
Where its funders are
COLLIDER FOUNDATION draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $275k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Rochester Downtown AlliancelocalMN · funds 48 organizations near you
- Cooperative Development Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mary T and James J Hill Library Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Amy and Chip Pearson Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Minnesota Council on Foundationsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Bush Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Target Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rooted Philanthropicportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Shavlik Family Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John and Denise Graves Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cargill Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- BCBSM Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like COLLIDER FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLLIDER FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds COLLIDER FOUNDATION?
- COLLIDER FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $608,863 to it, the largest being EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION ($250,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLLIDER FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $608,863 in grants to COLLIDER FOUNDATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLLIDER FOUNDATION?
- EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLLIDER FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 9funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing