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Comey Family Foundation at a glance

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Comey Family 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.

$14k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$34kHuman Services$24kArts & Culture$9kEducation$1kPhilanthropy$500
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$255k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN$5,000
LIBERTY YOUTH RANCH INC$5,000
ST JUDE'S CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL$2,500
ARTIS-NAPLES$1,600
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ASSISTING CHILDREN TODAY INC: $2k → 7%FOLDS OF HONOR: $1k → 15%ARTIS-NAPLES: $3k → 10%MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $500 → 11%SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 13%ST JUDE'S CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $3k → 17%WESTON THEATHER COMPANY: $1k → 9%ASSISTING CHILDREN TODAY INC: $1k → 7%ARTIS-NAPLES: $2k → 10%SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 13%ST JUDE'S CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $2k → 17%ARTIS-NAPLES: $2k → 10%SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 13%ST JUDE'S CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $1k → 17%ARTIS-NAPLES: $2k → 10%SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 13%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY: $500 → 10%SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $4k → 13%NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS INC: $1k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$64k · 5 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
4

Total granted

$64k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+19%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN
    5× · 2020–2025 · $24k · revenue +106%
  • LY
    LIBERTY YOUTH RANCH INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $24k · revenue +5%
  • AI
    ARTIS-NAPLES INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • FO
    FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +19%
  • NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +2%
  • WT
    WESTON THEATHER COMPANY
    one grant, 2024 · $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.

04Its field

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.

1
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
2
The Shriners' Hospital for Children

Shriners children's is committed to compassionate, high-quality care that improves children's lives, in a family-centered and collaborative environment. (continued on schedule o)

Health
3
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
4
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
5
Miami Children's Health System Inc

Nicklaus Children's Health System is the region's only healthcare system exclusively for children. Our mission is to inspire hope and promote lifelong health by providing the best care to every child. TO PERFORM THE FUNCTIONS OF, OR TO…

Health
6
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
7
Children's Health System of Texas

With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…

Health
8
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
9
Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation

Phoenix children's hospital foundation supports phoenix children's hospital through fundraising ensuring that the hospital continues to stay on the leading edge of pediatric medicine and is equipped to fulfill its mission to advance hope,…

Health
10
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
11
Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation

Johns hopkins health system corporation provides centralized management of a multi-hospital healthcare system. it is a key component of johns hopkins medicine, a collaboration with the johns hopkins university school of medicine.

Health
12
Stc Healthcare Partners Llc

Website: https://towerhealth.org/locations/st-christophers-hospital- children stc opco, llc (st. christopher's hospital for children) provides a full range of high-quality healthcare services to all children and youth up to age 21 who seek…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nch Healthcare System Inc; the most unlike its peers is Artis-Naples Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $24,300 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDRENST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCASSISTING CHILDREN TODAY INC: $2,700 · HealthASSISTING CHILDREN TODAY INC+2 more: $1,500 · HealthLIBERTY YOUTH RANCH INC: $24,000 · Human ServicesLIBERTY YOUTH RANCH INCARTIS-NAPLES INC: $8,000 · Arts & CultureARTIS-NAPLES …WESTON THEATHER COMPANY: $1,000 · OtherCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $500 · OtherFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Education
Health$33,500Human Services$24,000Arts & Culture$8,000Other$1,500Education$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $24,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY YOUTH RANCH INC: $24,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetARTIS-NAPLES INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetASSISTING CHILDREN TODAY INC: $2,700 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Comey Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Comey Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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