· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k5 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ONTARIO CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
| PIPELINE BAPTIST CHURCH | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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,…
How this is measured
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Allen and Gretchen McCombs Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Allen and Gretchen McCombs Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- University of Hartford: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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