· Private foundation
Combs Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k41 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSIC FOR MINORS | $11,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST | $6,000 |
| COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY | $6,000 |
| YOSEMITE CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation | $3,000 |
| Life Moves | $2,500 |
| SCHOLA CANTORUM | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Tahoe Fund | $1,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $1,000 |
| EL CAMINO HEALTH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $1,000 |
| KQED | $600 |
| GIFFORDS FOR GUN CONTROL | $600 |
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 (FY20–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
34 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MFMUSIC FOR MINORS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $59k · revenue +18%
- CSCOMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY OF MOUNTAIN VIEW LOS ALTOS AND LOS ALTOS HILLS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +18%
- YFYOSEMITE FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANKone grant, 2020 · $2k
- MMidPen2× · 2022–2023 · $1k
- IMIEEE MEINDL MEMORIAL FUNDone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
The Foundation envisions a thriving community created through meaningful philanthropy, inclusive communication, and the willingness to explore possibilities together.
Sierra watch secures conservation outcomes to protect the natural resources, mountain communities, and timeless values of the tahoe sierra.
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The santa fe community foundation inspires philanthropic generosity, strengthens nonprofits, and fosters positive change to build a more vibrant, healthy, and resilient region. the foundation's vision is a thriving northern new mexico,…
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
The Truckee Trails Foundation (TTF) is working towards a system of trails and bikeways in and around Truckee, California that will connect people and places, reduce our community's dependence on automobiles, and improve our physical,…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.
How this is measured
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 56 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 MUSIC FOR MINORS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY OF MOUNTAIN VIEW LOS ALTOS AND LOS ALTOS HILLS INC ↗
- Who funds The Schola Cantorum ↗
- Who funds YOSEMITE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIFEMOVES ↗
- Who funds TAHOE FUND ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVE TAHOE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds TRUCK OF LOVE ↗
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Corrigan-Walla Foundation · The George and Judy Marcus Family Foundation · The George and Judy Marcus Family Foundation II · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Combs Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Combs Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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