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Coombs Family Foundation at a glance

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Coombs Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$68k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$20k
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$244kPublic Benefit$209kHealth$93kHuman Services$45kEducation$38kCrime & Legal$28kFood & Nutrition$19kReligion$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k23 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
12TH MAN FOUNDATION$20,000
ADAPTIVE SPORTS CENTER$10,183
LAND 4 HEROES$5,000
TOUGH ENOUGH TO WEAR PINK (TWP)$5,000
GUNNISON TOUGH$5,000
CASA$2,500
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$2,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$2,000
SHRINER HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN$2,000
FOLDS OF HONOR$2,000
ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$2,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$1,000
COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY$1,000
JUDICIAL WATCH$1,000
HOUSTON LIVE STOCK SHOW AND RODEO (GRIMES CNTY GO TEXAS)$1,000
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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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH: $500 → 20%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $3k → 9%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $3k → 9%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $1k → 9%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $1k → 9%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $1k → 9%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $1k → 9%CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH: $500 → 16%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 16%TEXAS NEW COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $5k → 9%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $3k → 16%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 16%TEXAS NEW COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $3k → 9%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 16%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 16%TEXAS NEW COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $2k → 9%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 16%TEXAS NEW COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $1k → 9%TEXAS NEW COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $1k → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
OR
IA
CA
CO
VA
DC
OK
MS
TX
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$646k · 30 repeat orgs$51k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
16

Total granted

$646k
$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+10%

Still filing today

43%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesPublic BenefitEducationFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • TA
    Texas A&M University 12th Man Foundation
    7× · 2018–2024 · $189k · revenue +78%
  • WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $15k · revenue +53%
  • TC
    Texas Children's Hospital
    6× · 2019–2024 · $13k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • CD
    CATTLEMEN'S DAYS INC
    one grant, 2018 · $11k · revenue -74%
  • MI
    MONTGOMERY ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $8k
  • MH
    MOUNTAIN HIGH MUSIC FESTIVAL
    one grant, 2020 · $6k
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
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

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.

Health
2
Communities Foundation of Texas Inc

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.

Philanthropy
3
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
4
Texas Children's Health Plan

To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education, and research.

Health
5
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
6
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
7
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
8
Blood Cancer United Inc

Our mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.

Health
9
Texas Children's Hospital Foundation

To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.

Health
10
Children's Cancer Fund of Dallas inc

Children's cancer fund champions kids in their fight against cancer through strategic investments in research and care in north texas.

Health
11
Texas Trees Foundation

The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.

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12
The Children's Cancer Cause Inc

The mission of children's cancer cause is to champion policies and programs that improve the lives of children with cancer and survivors.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 51 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
16/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LAND 4 HEROES INC: $201,153 · OtherLAND 4 HEROES INCCASA: $30,540 · OtherCASAADAPTIVE SPORTS CENTER: $29,353 · OtherADAPTIVE SPORTS CENTERTOUGH ENOUGH TO WEAR PINK (TWP): $14,100 · OtherDALE A DOSSEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $13,500 · Other+30 more: $112,573 · Other+30 moreTexas A&M University 12th Man Foundation: $188,630 · EducationTexas A&M University 12th Man F…+1 more: $6,000 · EducationWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $14,500 · Human ServicesTEXAS NEW COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $12,300 · Human ServicesCommunity Partners of Montgomery County: $9,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesTexas Children's Hospital: $13,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $7,500 · HealthGUNNISON TOUGH: $5,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S CRANIOFACIAL ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $2,000 · Health+1 more: $100 · HealthHOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO INC: $11,500 · Recreation & SportsCATTLEMEN'S DAYS INC: $11,450 · Food & NutritionJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $4,000 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $4,000 · Public Benefit
Other$401,219Education$194,630Human Services$36,800Health$32,600Recreation & Sports$11,500Food & Nutrition$11,450Public Benefit$8,000

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 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
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.

  • 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 TWP-THE YOUTH MOVEMENT ↗
  • Who funds GUNNISON TOUGH ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S CRANIOFACIAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds Helping Hands Foundation ↗

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 Commu…Communities Foundatio…Shell USA Company Fou…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…The Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodNatl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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 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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By state
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