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Coombs Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$68k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
25
Grants FY2024
21
Organizations funded FY2023
29%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 25
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
8
Total assets, FY2024
$2.4M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 29% of the organizations Coombs Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthPublic BenefitRecreation & SportsEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving25$68k20%
FY202321$70k29%
FY202222$67k14%
FY202120$247k25%
FY202019$84k26%
FY201925$100k64%
FY201811$61kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$244kPublic Benefit$209kHealth$93kHuman Services$45kEducation$38kCrime & Legal$28kFood & Nutrition$19kReligion$6kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
OR
IA
CA
CO
VA
DC
OK
MS
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 25 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($172k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Coombs Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTexas A&M University 12th Man Foundation: $188,630 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $14,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $13,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTexas New Community Alliance: $12,300 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Livestock Show and Rodeo Inc: $11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCattlemen's Days Inc: $11,450 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCommunity Partners of Montgomery County: $9,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetMontgomery County Food Bank Inc: $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMontgomery County Womens Center: $6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTwp-The Youth Movement: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGunnison Tough: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Craniofacial Association: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJudicial Watch Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Heritage Foundation: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHelping Hands Foundation: $1,275 over 1y, 13% of budgetCal Farley's Boys Ranch: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCast (Catch a Special Thrill) for Kids Foundation: $600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMarine Toys for Tots Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAccentcare Hospice Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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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.

Greater Houston Community FoundationTX12× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Coombs Family Foundation

How much does Coombs Family Foundation give?
Coombs Family Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $68,233 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Coombs Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (35%), Public Benefit (30%), Health (13%).
Who are Coombs Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Land 4 Heroes Inc ($201k), Texas A&M University 12th Man Foundation ($189k), Wounded Warrior Project Inc ($15k).
Does Coombs Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Coombs Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Coombs Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, Shell USA Company Foundation.
Where is Coombs Family Foundation based?
Coombs Family Foundation is based in TX.

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 51 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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