Louisiana · Nonprofit
Colloqate Design
Colloqate Design (Louisiana) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,972,369 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($1,025,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $183k
What Colloqate Design does
Mission
A justice practice focused on expanding community access to and building power through design of social and cultural spaces.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program and a significant change in how it conducts a program.
During the year the organization undertook several new program services not previously reported: Jane Place HQ - Completed a 5,000 sq ft new construction project for the Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative comprising three units of affordable housing Jane Places headquarters and community gathering space. PCC Opportunity Center - Served as community engagement partner on the Portland Community College Opportunity Center a workforce training facility anchoring Northeast Portlands Cully neighborhood working alongside Bora Architecture & Interiors lead architect AB Cultural Drivers and PLACE Studio landscape architecture. Nature in Neighborhoods - Collaborated on community engagement and participatory design for Metros Nature in Neighborhoods Community Choice Grants a participatory budgeting pilot that resulted in 14 park and nature restoration projects being approved for funding across 6 districts. De Rose Community Bridge - Provided design and engagement support to De Rose Community Bridge and Holistic Wellness a culturally specific nonprofit serving immigrants refugees and unhoused individuals in Portland and Beaverton. Lone Fir Cemetery Block 14 - Began community engagement work on the historic Chinese American burial ground at Lone Fir Cemetery which held nearly 3,000 ancestors before being cleared by Multnomah County in the 1950s. Early engagement gathered community input on ancestor-honoring practices to inform a reparative design approach. York Urban…
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
During the year the organization concluded or significantly changed several program services: City of St. Louis Workhouse Project - Concluded engagement work reimagining a former city jail and surrounding land in St. Louis which helped build the communitys vision for repurposing the empty workhouse site for community use. Reunion Project - Concluded work on building improvements to community spaces including ideas for improving parks and nature spaces. Nuestra Voz Campus New Orleans - Concluded concept design services for the proposed Nuestra Voz campus a collective effort grounded in Design Justice to center justice in future programming and development. Launch Charter School Project New York City - Concluded collaboration with ARO and Scape providing Design Justice concept design for the Launch Charter School project including groundsetting Design Justice training for the project team. Prospect Collaboration New Orleans - Concluded graphic design and preliminary site plan work in support of three art installations: Keith and Chandras piece in the Lower 9th Ward kai lumumba barrows piece in Mid-City and the Intertribal Collectives piece in Treme including a series of maps.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Storia: Cultural Futures - Mellon CID - Colloqate will work to design and construction cost to execute the Claiborne Innovation District Project that was started back in 2017. The remainder of the funds will be used for capacity building and organizational support for cultural institutions on the ground in New Orleans and potentially Portland.
$272,998 spent$275,000 earned by the program26% of program spendingMeyer Memorial Trust funds Colloqates environmental justice work - Colloqate Design assisting with build power with frontline communities goal. Separately Meyer is providing generous support for Colloqates CDA O Community Design Advocates & Organizers Training Program curriculum with a paid program launch planned for 2026.
$227,448 spent$227,706 earned by the program21% of program spendingColloqate is working with the City of Olympia to complete ground level landscaping create a festival street along with library activation spaces and create connections to a building site. These efforts include Building relationships and networks within the community and offer assistance into other growth opportunities.
$143,631 spent$165,255 earned by the program14% of program spendingJane Place HQ - A 5,000 sf new build for the Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability initiative. 3 units of affordable housing Jane Place Headquarters and community space.
$66,948 spent$88,387 earned by the program6% of program spendingFreedom To Grow is designed as a transformative justice center that supports the reintegration of returning citizens. It focuses on empowerment through education vocational training and community engagement.
$1,660 spent0% of program spendingPCC Opportunity Center - The Portland Community College PCC Opportunity Center is a workforce training center in Portland OR that will be an anchor for the community in Northeast Portlands racially diverse Cully neighborhood. Bora Architecture & Interiors Lead Architect AB Cultural Drivers Community Engagement Partner Amara Perez Community Engagement Partner PLACE Studio Landscape Architecture
$112,279 spent$124,094 earned by the program11% of program spendingNature In Neighbors collaborating with Colloqate Design on community engagement and participatory design projects most notably the Nature in Neighborhoods Community Choice Grants a participatory budgeting pilot with Metro regional government that resulted in 14 park and nature restoration projects across 6 districts being approved for funding.
$77,501 spent$86,315 earned by the program7% of program spendingMLK Library - The renovated MLK Library is a rehabilitation of the historic Mies Van De Rohe building in the heart of downtown. The library will center the collective legacy of Dr. King Marion Barry and the array of individuals that ensured the success of the civil rights movement and lead the way for present-day activists and organizers.
$29,644 spent$39,876 earned by the program3% of program spendingRemaking the campus: PSU selects Walker Macy to advance its Place Matters initiative The design team proposes a new welcome center colorful paint jobs bold signage and justice- oriented collaboration to transform the university campus and help revitalize downtown.
$14,642 spent$21,499 earned by the program1% of program spendingVarious Speaking Engagements
$0 spent$1,970 earned by the program0% of program spendingCBSE - The CENTER FOR BLACK STUDENT EXCELLENCE is a community-initiated effort to consider a Place an Approach and a Redesign of the Portland Public School System to address the problem of decades of underinvestment systemic racism lack of coordinated systems of support and discriminatory practices have resulted in an enduring opportunity and achievement gap for Black students in Portland.
$100 spent0% of program spendingJefferson High School Cultural Placemaking - facilitates a Design Justice-based community engagement process supporting a BIPOC-led team alongside LEVER Architecture and Bora with the project honoring Jeffersons history as an anchor in the Black community in North Portland intertwining race culture nature and the built environment fitting the cultural placemaking framing. Modernization aims to honor Jeffersons history as an anchor in the black community.
$1,888 spent$2,817 earned by the program0% of program spendingDe Rose Community Bridge - To assist with culturally specific and culturally responsive nonprofit serving immigrants refugees and houseless individuals in Portland and Beaverton Oregon.
$50,297 spent$43,374 earned by the program5% of program spendingLone Fir - Block 14 at Lone Fir Cemetery was historically a Chinese American burial ground holding nearly 3,000 ancestors until Multnomah County cleared it in the 1950s for a parking lot and maintenance building desecrating graves and severing the communitys connection to a sacred site central to ancestor-honoring traditions. Early community engagement surfaced personal everyday practices of honoring ancestors food fragrance photographs which are informing the projects approach to repair and reconnection.
$12,493 spent$14,263 earned by the program1% of program spendingThe York Urban Village project is a Colloqate collaboration with the York Collective envisioning housing health cultural and green spaces for Portlands Black community. It was presented as part of Our Rooted Futures, which unveiled the York Urban Village Exhibit and Guilds Lake Diorama featuring renderings dioramas and archival materials exploring themes of placemaking legacy co-optation and solidarity grounding the work in historical truths while imagining liberated futures. Its tied to the broader York Collective initiative named for York the enslaved member of the Lewis and Clark expedition with related educational and cultural programming in Portland.
$28,852 spent$25,264 earned by the program3% of program spendingThe 1803 Fund is a Portland Oregon organization founded in 2023 seeking to redevelop historically Black areas
$18,110 spent$21,200 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 16 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,058,491.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $385k to $1.4M (+261%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 2% · 2024 0% · 2025 0% · 2026 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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 5 funders, grant income rose $5k → $430k.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 Colloqate Design’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
Colloqate Design leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 79% · 2022 81% · 2023 35% — 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.
How long its funders stay
40% of Colloqate Design's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 38% 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
Colloqate Design draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $232k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Organizations like Colloqate Design
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 Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Dark Matter University · exempt
- Design As Protest · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Colloqate Design: 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. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Colloqate Design?
- Colloqate Design (Louisiana) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,972,369 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($1,025,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Colloqate Design have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,972,369 in grants to Colloqate Design, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Colloqate Design?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,025,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Colloqate Design find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds Colloqate Design →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2021–2026), and the filings of 8 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