North Carolina · Nonprofit
THE COLLIDER
THE COLLIDER (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $185,026 to it, the largest being The David and Lucile Packard Foundation ($180,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $59k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $185k
- Net assets
- $0
What The Collider does
Mission
To operate exclusively for educational, charitable, literary, and scientific purposes, for the purposes of encouraging the growth of public, private, academic, and nonprofit providers of climate services.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Program
During the first half of 2022, The Collider supported its members as the workforce continued to evolve to meet the nation's climate service's needs. Due to the changing work habits of members over the past two years due to covid-19, fewer members desired to have physical workspaces and meet in person. In addition, many members found that their networking needs were more on a national level (driven by national, rather than local customers). Therefore, The Collider agreed to work with its members to meet their identified unmet needs that were consistent with The Collider's mission and resources.as the needs of members contracted, the board reevaluated its financial ability to continue in existence and morphed into a wind-down mode with the ultimate objective being dissolution. In the wind-down process, the board negotiated a settlement of its unpaid rent liability by conveying its furniture, furniture, and tech systems to the landlord. The Collider received contributions to cover the wind-down costs. Following the closing of the asset transfer to the landlord, the board resigned and The Collider was dissolved in late december of 2022.
$224,210 spent$38,336 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $224,210.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2020 to 2021, from $549k to $177k (−68%).
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: 2021 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Mary Olson
Executive director
Board chair
Claire Callen
Chair
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $185k → $11.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 THE COLLIDER’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
THE COLLIDER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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: 2018 97% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
THE COLLIDER draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Government funding THE COLLIDER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5k on record.
- Department of Commerce$5k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like THE COLLIDER
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE COLLIDER: 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 THE COLLIDER?
- THE COLLIDER (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $185,026 to it, the largest being The David and Lucile Packard Foundation ($180,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE COLLIDER have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $185,026 in grants to THE COLLIDER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE COLLIDER?
- The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $180,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE COLLIDER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 3 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