Minnesota · Nonprofit
COLLIDER FOUNDATION
COLLIDER FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $624,863 to it, the largest being EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION ($250,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $416k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $625k
- Net assets
- $325k
What Collider Foundation does
Mission
Collider Foundation activates, connects, and empowers entrepreneurs in rochester, minnesota. We believe in a community with zero barriers to entrepreneurship for anyone with a strong business idea and the passion to see it grow.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Colliders education centers around the delivery of two cohort-based programs, co.starters and a community incubator. Co.starters helps early age entrepreneurs create insights, relationships, and tools to turn their ideas into action. The community incubator helps participants refine their business model into a viable product or service, enhancing their business potential through dedicated workshops, mentorship, networking, and other support to advance their business. Thirty-five local entrepreneurs graduated from their programming in 2025.
$160,451 spent$154,689 earned by the program53% of program spendingColliders coworking service offers a community-based workspace for entrepreneurs, freelancers, remote workers, and service providers to promote ideas, growth, and innovation. In 2025, collider continued offering affordable membership options to lower barriers for new entrepreneurs and launched a dedicated coworking marketing campaign--supported in part by the rochester downtown alliance marketing matching grant--to grow membership and deepen community engagement in the downtown workspace.
$75,132 spent$119,169 earned by the program25% of program spendingColliders startup support service provides free, confidential, personalized support to help entrepreneurs figure out steps to start their business, find resources and co-create plans for business growth, and create individualized milestones. In 2025, this work supported 110 community entrepreneurs through approximately 230 hours of 1:1 guidance, 64% of which were women-owned businesses and 22% latino entrepreneurs.
$65,201 spent$113,418 earned by the program22% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $300,784.
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 2021 to 2022, from $155k to $259k (+67%).
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
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $36k → $99k.
4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 40% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
44% 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 75% 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 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
COLLIDER FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,668 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,668 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like COLLIDER FOUNDATION
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 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COLLIDER FOUNDATION?
- COLLIDER FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $624,863 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 10 organizations giving $624,863 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.
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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 10 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing