Collat Family Foundation
At a glance
Key takeaways
- The foundation's grants span educational, cultural, community, health, youth, environmental and religious organisations, with no single field dominating and no stated common theme, so a clear written request explaining your organisation's purpose and goals is the approach it asks for.
- Its typical grant band is $10,000 to $100,000, with about 8 in 10 of its 56 grants falling in that range, and half its grants were $50,000 or less, so a request near that lower level suits its usual pattern, though its largest grant was $200,000.
- Its filing shows grants mainly in Alabama, Georgia and Illinois, but it states no geographic focus, so organisations elsewhere should not read that pattern as a rule about who may apply.
- It accepts applications, but the filing gives no deadlines, so the filing does not set a time for your request; 64% of its grant dollars went to organisations it had funded in an earlier filing, so it is worth knowing that much of its giving has gone to repeat recipients, while the filing does not say how it weighs new applicants.
Overview
Collat Family Foundation is a US private foundation based in Birmingham, AL.
What they fund
Profile based on the foundation's IRS Form 990-PF filings (TY2024, TY2023, TY2022) only: no website or other web source for the foundation was found. Every statement is checked against the filings. Sources read on 7 October 2026.
Priority Areas
Across the filings, the foundation's grants go to a varied group of charitable organisations. Recipients include educational and cultural bodies, community and social-service organisations, Jewish communal and religious organisations, health-related charities, youth organisations, and environmental organisations. The stated purpose for the grants is discretionary, rather than a named common programme or field. Its recorded giving therefore spans different kinds of organisation, with no single recipient type dominating the grants. The filings do not state a more specific common funding theme, eligible geography for applicants, or eligibility preference.
Geographic Focus
No geographic focus is stated; the filings show grants mainly in Alabama, Georgia and Illinois.
How to apply
Submit a written request stating the requesting entity's purpose and goals.
Application success factors
- Repeat giving: In its TY2024 filing, 64% of its grant dollars to organisations went to organisations it had also funded in its TY2022 or TY2023 filing.
- Grant size: Across its TY2022, TY2023 and TY2024 filings, half of its 56 grants to organisations were $50,000 or less.
Where grants go
From grants to organisations in the foundation’s filings for tax years 2022–2024.
Grant dollars by state
1 other state: <1%
- The largest single recipient received 10% of grant dollars to organisations.
- In tax year 2024, 64% of grant dollars went to organisations Collat Family Foundation had funded in earlier filings.
- No grants were paid directly to organisations outside the US.
- 13% of grant dollars went to intermediaries that regrant to other organisations.
Grants
How much do they typically give?
Share of 25 grants in tax year 2024 by size
Median $50,000 (tax year 2024)
The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:
- Birmingham Zoo · Discretionary$100,0002024 tax year
- UAB Athletics Department · Discretionary$100,0002024 tax year
- Atlanta Ronald McDonald House Charaties Inc · Discretionary$100,0002024 tax year
- Alabama Holocaust Education Center · Discretionary$100,0002024 tax year
- Israel ParaSport Center · Discretionary$100,0002024 tax year
- Boy Scouts of America · Discretionary$100,0002024 tax year
- United Way of Central Alabama · Discretionary$75,0002024 tax year
- Community Food Bank of Central Alabama · Discretionary$55,5002024 tax year
Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.
Officers and directors
- Susan W Collat — Vice President
- Charles A Collat Jr — Secretary and Treasurer
- Nancy C Goedecke — President
From the latest Form 990-PF filing
3 years of tax filings
| Year | Total expenses | Grants paid | Assets | Filing document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 tax year | $1,094,844 | $975,000 | $23,424,101 | Filing for 2022 tax year |
| 2023 tax year | $1,197,467 | $1,065,000 | $27,592,861 | Filing for 2023 tax year |
| 2024 tax year | $1,474,333 | $1,285,000 | $29,370,389 | Filing for 2024 tax year |
Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.
Sources
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- Birmingham, AL
Applying to Collat Family Foundation?
Hinchilla drafts your answers around this funder's priorities, using your organisation's own documents.
No credit card required
Contact
- (205) 790-1155
- Birmingham, AL