· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $330k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WOMAN FOR HEALTHY RURAL LIVING | $40,000 |
| LIFELINE PUPPY RESCUE | $40,000 |
| HANDS IN OUTREACH | $25,000 |
| WAYPOINT ADVENTURES | $25,000 |
| LIFE RING SECULAR RECOVERY | $20,000 |
| BLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST | $20,000 |
| SECOND WIND FUND | $20,000 |
| TENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN | $20,000 |
| THORNE NATURE EXPERIENCE | $20,000 |
| BAGS OF FUN | $15,000 |
| ELEVATE YOUTH | $15,000 |
| BOSTON SCORES | $15,000 |
| DOC WAYNE | $15,000 |
| GOOD SPORTS | $10,000 |
| SOJOURNER HOUSE | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 96% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against -12% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
- WAWAYPOINT ADVENTURE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $85k · revenue +154%
- BHBLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST4× · 2021–2024 · $80k · revenue +14%
- HIHANDS IN OUTREACH INC3× · 2022–2024 · $75k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- RARise Against Suicideone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -12%
- LALOAVES AND FISHESone grant, 2020 · $25k
- RRISEone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
See Schedule O regarding Organization's mission.AIM is bridging the gap between research and access to care for youth struggling with their mental health by finding, funding and implementing evidence-based treatments, empowering youth to…
VIVE addresses the health equity and wellness needs of many of Colorados low-income youth, who face significant health disparities and often lack access to engaging physical activity and health education.
Rise Above The Disorder is a non-profit centered on making mental health care accessible and affordable to everyone. Our cause was founded in 2012 as a team of volunteers helping people find local therapists and crowd-funding the cost of…
Horizons for Youth mission is to transform children's lives by providing targeted resources, rooted in education, in a trusting partnership with their families and communities.
The mission of connor's climb foundation is to provide suicide prevention education by raising awareness, reducing stigma, and equipping youth, educators, and the community at large with tools and resources focused on the vulnerable age…
A leader in social and emotional development, community engagement, and positive youth development, Youth Guidance has strategically created programs to address community needs across four delivery areas: Community & Afterschool Programs…
Positive tracks equips ages 12-25 with the skills and resources to build and lead their own athletic challenges to champion causes they care about most, so young people can change the world.
The mission of youth homes is to help every youth feel safe, have a sense of belonging, and find a place to call home.
Exalt youth serves youth involved in the criminal justice system, moving them away from incarceration towards re-engagement with education and meaningful job opportunities. our students come from some of the most economically depressed…
With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…
Provide Emergency Housing, Supportive Services and Opportunitites to Youth Experiencing Homelessness.
Create youth interactions that strengthen resilience and leadership and help prevent mental health crisis.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Good Sports Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lifeline Pet Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 26 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 WOMEN FOR HEALTHY RURAL LIVING ↗
- Who funds WAYPOINT ADVENTURE INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST ↗
- Who funds HANDS IN OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds THORNE ECOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds America Scores New England DBA Boston Scores ↗
- Who funds Elevate Youth Inc ↗
- Who funds SECOND WIND FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ANGEL HEART ↗
- Who funds LIFELINE PET RESCUE ↗
- Who funds GOOD SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds Rise Against Suicide ↗
- Who funds DOC WAYNE INC ↗
- Who funds Safe Passage ↗
- Who funds THE JED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ONE LOVE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF YEARDLEY LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER HOUSE 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: 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
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 Comeau 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- America Scores New England Dba Boston Scores — 30% of income from government
- Doc Wayne Inc — 15% of income from government
- Sojourner House Inc — 11% of income from government
- Artists for Humanity Inc — 2% 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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