· Private foundation
Allen and Gretchen McCombs Family Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
50% of Allen and Gretchen McCombs Family Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to The Chino Hills Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Allen and Gretchen McCombs Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $44k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k5 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PIPELINE BAPTIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| ONTARIO CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
| CHINO POLICE OFFICER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CHINO VALLEY FIRE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CHINO VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| ISAIAHS ROCK | $5,000 |
| NEW BEGINNINGS MINISTRY | $3,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $761k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
20 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2021, 16 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CCCHINO CULTURAL FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2023 · $721k · revenue +122% · 32% of their budget
- ICINLAND CHRISTIAN HOME INC2× · 2017–2018 · $27k · revenue +57%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE STANFORD DAILY FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2019 · $21k · revenue +68%
Funded once
UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORDone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +13%- HSHARTFORD SCHOOL OF MUSICone grant, 2017 · $40k
- CVCHINO VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT FAMILYone grant, 2018 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Encourage ideals of service
Community involvement
Support the athletic programs at chino high school
Business membership promotion and economic development for businesses in the cities of chino and chino hills through various community events
To provide financial support for the enhancement of the academic, co curricular and extra curricular learning opportunities for students at chico high school.
California Chins's mission is to accept, care for, and adopt out chinchillas while educating the public about the joys of keeping chinchillas as pets.
Provide young people in the community an opportunity to learn about science and history in the chino valley and the world around us, with hands on experience during the year.
The Chino Valley Education Foundation was created to serve the Chino Valley Unified School District's community by supporting students, teachers & families. We run programs including the Hungry Kids Project, Homeless Assistance, food…
To provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world.
To operate the chico history museum in chico, ca and in the process conserve, research and display the history of chico by communicating the history for the education and enjoyment of the community and preserve the relationship of the…
To build a culture of philanthropy by harnessing the expertise and passion of our alumni, parents, and friends to raise private support for the education, practical research, and public service that transforms the lives of our students,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Chino Hills Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CHINO CULTURAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHINO HILLS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds INLAND CHRISTIAN HOME INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE STANFORD DAILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ONTARIO CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST AMENDMENT COALITION ↗
- Who funds CHINO COMMUNITY CHILDRENS THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Boys Republic ↗
- Who funds CHINO VALLEY FIRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHINO POLICE OFFICERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHINO COMMUNITY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds CHINO NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CHINO FAIR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA PRESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARING FOR THE HILLS INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Howard and Nikki Applebaum Foundation Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Allen and Gretchen McCombs Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- University of Hartford — 1% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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