· Private foundation
Coombs Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 12TH MAN FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| ADAPTIVE SPORTS CENTER | $10,183 |
| TOUGH ENOUGH TO WEAR PINK (TWP) | $5,000 |
| LAND 4 HEROES | $5,000 |
| GUNNISON TOUGH | $5,000 |
| CASA | $2,500 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $2,000 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR | $2,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| SHRINER HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN | $2,000 |
| ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $2,000 |
| HOUSTON LIVE STOCK SHOW AND RODEO (GRIMES CNTY GO TEXAS) | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $1,000 |
| COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY | $1,000 |
| THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +48% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 5 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- TATexas A&M University 12th Man Foundation7× · 2018–2024 · $189k · revenue +78%
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC6× · 2019–2024 · $15k · revenue +36%- TCTexas Children's Hospital6× · 2019–2024 · $13k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- CDCATTLEMEN'S DAYS INCone grant, 2018 · $11k · revenue -74%
- MIMONTGOMERY ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $8k
- MHMOUNTAIN HIGH MUSIC FESTIVALone grant, 2020 · $6k
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.
To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.
The foundation is committed to serving charitable needs both domestically and abroad through charitable grants and services at the discretion of the board of trustees.
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.…
To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education, and research.
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.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Our mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.
To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.
Children's cancer fund champions kids in their fight against cancer through strategic investments in research and care in north texas.
The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.
The mission of children's cancer cause is to champion policies and programs that improve the lives of children with cancer and survivors.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Helping Hands Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 65% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
22 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. 22 of the 51 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 Texas A&M University 12th Man Foundation ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds TEXAS NEW COMMUNITY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO INC ↗
- Who funds CATTLEMEN'S DAYS INC ↗
- Who funds Community Partners of Montgomery County ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY WOMENS CENTER ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GUNNISON TOUGH ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CRANIOFACIAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TWP-THE YOUTH MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds Helping Hands Foundation ↗
- Who funds CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH ↗
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: 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
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 Coombs 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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.