Massachusetts · Private foundation
Comeau Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $339k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2024
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 16
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $6.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 31% of the organizations Comeau Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 18 | $339k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $330k | 31% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $355k | 56% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $100k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $25k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women for Healthy Rural Living | $140,000 | 4 | 12% |
| Waypoint Adventure Inc | $85,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Blue Hill Heritage Trust | $80,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Hands in Outreach Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Thorne Ecological Institute | $70,000 | 4 | 1% |
| America Scores New England DBA Boston Scores | $60,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Second Wind Fund Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Project Angel Heart | $50,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Elevate Youth Inc | $50,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Lifeline Pet Rescue | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 18 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women for Healthy Rural Living | $140,000 | 4 | 12% |
| Waypoint Adventure Inc | $85,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Blue Hill Heritage Trust | $80,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Hands in Outreach Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Thorne Ecological Institute | $70,000 | 4 | 1% |
| America Scores New England DBA Boston Scores | $60,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Second Wind Fund Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Project Angel Heart | $50,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Elevate Youth Inc | $50,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Lifeline Pet Rescue | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Good Sports Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Doc Wayne Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Rise Against Suicide | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| The Jed Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Safe Passage | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Artists for Humanity Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The One Love Foundation in Honor of Yeardley Love Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sojourner House Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($299k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Comeau Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
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About Comeau Family Foundation
- How much does Comeau Family Foundation give?
- Comeau Family Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $339,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 16 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Comeau Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (35%), Youth Development (15%), Environment (13%).
- Who are Comeau Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Women for Healthy Rural Living ($140k), Waypoint Adventure Inc ($85k), Blue Hill Heritage Trust ($80k).
- Does Comeau Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Comeau Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Comeau Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc), Colorado Gives Foundation.
- Where is Comeau Family Foundation based?
- Comeau Family Foundation is based in MA.
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