Don & May Wilkins Charitable Trust
Fort Collins, CO · EIN 84-6336318. Reported 117 grants totalling $2,067,630 to 55 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Don & May Wilkins Charitable Trust did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $2,895. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,019 and $6,990; the smallest was $19 and the largest $301,089. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City of Fort Collins | Fort Collins, CO | $870,677 | 7 | 4 | 2024 |
| UC Health Foundation | Fort Collins, CO | $301,089 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Discovery Science Center | Fort Collins, CO | $157,736 | 4 | 2 | 2024 |
| No Barriers USA | Fort Collins, CO | $132,756 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Childrens Speech & Reading Center | Fort Collins, CO | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Fort Collins Museum of Discovery | Fort Collins, CO | $88,751 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sava Center | Fort Collins, CO | $52,391 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Friends of the Gardens on Spring Cr | Fort Collins, CO | $42,605 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Carnegie Center for Creativity | Fort Collins, CO | $27,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| CASA of Larimer County | Fort Collins, CO | $23,738 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Avenir Museum of Design at Csu | Fort Collins, CO | $19,976 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Respite Care Inc | Fort Collins, CO | $19,670 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Foothills Gateway | Fort Collins, CO | $16,960 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Fort Collins Habitat for Humanity | Fort Collins, CO | $16,576 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Larimer County Humane Society | Loveland, CO | $15,833 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ram Strength Lubick Foundation | Fort Collins, CO | $15,314 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Northern Colorado Health | Loveland, CO | $14,647 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Animal Friends Alliance | Fort Collins, CO | $13,988 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Poudre River Library Trust | Fort Collins, CO | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pathways Hospice | Fort Collins, CO | $12,184 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Realities for Children | Fort Collins, CO | $10,751 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Hearts & Horses Therapeutic Center | Loveland, CO | $9,969 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Crossroads Safehouse | Fort Collins, CO | $9,859 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Uchealth Northern Colorado Foundati | Fort Collins, CO | $9,699 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Historic Larimer County | Fort Collins, CO | $9,244 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Matthews House | Fort Collins, CO | $8,490 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ft Collins Municipal Railway | Fort Collins, CO | $7,538 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The Jacob Center | Fort Collins, CO | $7,234 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Alliance for Suicide Prevention | Fort Collins, CO | $5,538 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Disabled Resource Services | Fort Collins, CO | $5,074 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Family Housing Network | Fort Collins, CO | $4,290 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Live the Victory Inc | Fort Collins, CO | $3,895 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Imdsa | Trenton, OH | $3,849 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Habitat for Humanity | Fort Collins, CO | $3,118 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Family Housing Network of Fort Coll | Fort Collins, CO | $2,400 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Larimer County | Fort Collins, CO | $2,018 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Larimer County Food Bank | Fort Collins, CO | $1,350 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Center for Family Outreach | Fort Collins, CO | $1,161 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Protect the Game | Fort Collins, CO | $957 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Work of Life Lutheran Church | Fort Collins, CO | $840 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Dads Liquid Therapy | Fort Collins, CO | $803 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Global Leaders Inc | Fort Collins, CO | $695 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Colorado Youth Outdoors | Fort Collins, CO | $599 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Complete Equestrian Vaulters | Fort Collins, CO | $532 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Complete Equestrian Vaulting | Fort Collins, CO | $493 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The True Blue Foundation | Timnath, CO | $449 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Ascent Classical Academy of Norther | Windsor, CO | $368 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hope Lives | Fort Collins, CO | $347 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| VFW Warriors | Fort Collins, CO | $347 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Baby Foundation | Loveland, CO | $327 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mckee Wellness Foundation | Loveland, CO | $307 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Csu Athletics | Fort Collins, CO | $264 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| My Happy Place | Mason City, IA | $227 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| FFA Severance | Severance, CO | $188 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Fort Collins Breakfast Rotary Club | Fort Collins, CO | $19 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
28 of 55 (51%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 62%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- City of Fort Collins
SUPPORT OF MUNICIPAL PROGRAMS - Childrens Speech & Reading Center
SUPPORT OF CHILDREN SPEECH THERAPY - Fort Collins Museum of Discovery
SUPPORT OF SCIENCE MUSEUM - Discovery Science Center
SUPPORT OF SCIENCE CENTER - No Barriers USA
SUPPORT OF YOUTH PROGRAMS - Sava Center
SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIM CENTER SUPPORT
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 51 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 27 | $596,711 | $3,500 |
| 2022 | 29 | $483,641 | $2,884 |
| 2023 | 29 | $462,023 | $2,738 |
| 2024 | 32 | $525,255 | $2,913 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 100% of this one's giving went to organizations in Colorado. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,895. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Colorado.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Don & May Wilkins Charitable Trust's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 1312 S College Ave, Fort Collins, CO, 80524. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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