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Coulombe Family Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$479k
Granted FY2019
31
Grants FY2019
4
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

91% of Coulombe Family Foundation’s FY2020 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2020 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Coulombe Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 24 organizations, $479k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

27
’17
30
’18
24
’19
1
’20

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.

Philanthropy$16MHealth$1.8MHuman Services$355kYouth Development$238kEducation$173kFood & Nutrition$161kArts & Culture$110kAnimals$70kOther$0
02FY2019 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k4 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $340k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $120k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Boca Helping Hands Inc$70,000
Place of Hope at The Leighan and David Rinker Campus$50,000
Children's Museum & Theater of Maine$25,000
Boca Raton Regional Hospital$25,000
Lifeflight Foundation$25,000
Florence Fuller Child Development Centers Inc$25,000
Center for Grieving Children$25,000
KidSafe Foundation$20,000
Starting Right Now$15,000
Boca Raton Elementary PTA$10,000
My Place Teen Center$10,000
Opportunity Alliance$10,000
Casa Inc$10,000
Share Our Strength$10,000
Gulf of Maine Research Institute$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $380k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%The Children's Shelter: $10k → 16%Children in Crisis Inc: $10k → 8%Children's Home Society of Florida: $20k → 12%Khan Economic Development: $25k → 13%United Angels Foundation: $10k → 8%Children in Crisis Inc: $10k → 8%Children's Home Society of Florida: $10k → 12%A Kid's Place of Tampa Bay Inc: $10k → 13%Khan Economic Development: $10k → 13%Children in Crisis Inc: $10k → 8%The Children's Place at Home Safe Inc: $10k → 11%Casa Inc: $10k → 7%Coastal Kids Preschool: $10k → 9%Place of Hope at The Leighan and David Rinker Campus: $50k → 11%Place of Hope at The Leighan and David Rinker Campus: $50k → 11%GIVT Inc: $10k → 11%Child Rescue Coalition Inc: $10k → 11%GIVT Inc: $10k → 11%GIVT Inc: $10k → 11%Preble Street: $10k → 7%Preble Street: $10k → 7%The Opportunity Alliance: $20k → 7%The Opportunity Alliance: $10k → 7%Florence Fuller Child Development Centers Inc: $25k → 11%Opportunity Alliance: $10k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ME
CT
UT
CO
KY
VA
SC
DC
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

33%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 23 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

23 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2019, 7 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
35

Total granted

$1.1M
$528k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+28%

Still filing today

74%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthFood & NutritionArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • BH
    BOCA HELPING HANDS INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $101k · revenue +121%
  • GO
    GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    3× · 2017–2019 · $60k · revenue +102%
  • BG
    Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine
    2× · 2017–2018 · $50k · revenue +341%

Funded once

  • DL
    DAVID & LEIGHAN RINKER FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +148%
  • BR
    Boca Raton Elementary School
    one grant, 2018 · $48k
  • PB
    PALM BEACH SCHOOL FOR AUTISM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +28%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Kids Corner Inc

To provide affordable, yet high quality, developmentally appropriate day care services to local communities in a safe, responsive environment for children.

Human Services
2
Wings for Children and Families Inc

Wings For Children & Families partners with families and providers to deliver quality case management services utilizing the wraparound planning process, train other system providers improve quality of care.

Health
3
Kids Free to Grow

To prevent child abuse and neglect by empowering children and families in York and Cumberland Counties.

Crime & Legal
4
Children's Center Early Intervention & Family Support

The Children's Center, as a nonprofit organization, provides quality, family-focused services for children; specializes in meeting the developmental needs of children with special needs by offering programs which encourage individual…

Health
5
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
6
The Florida Center for Early Childhood Inc

The florida center supports the healthy development of young children, specializing in those with delays, disabilities or mental health challenges. our mission- "to help build and foster strong families and expand the potential of young…

Human Services
7
Maine Children's Home for Little Wanderers

To build and strengthen families and their children, instilling hope for the future and a better quality of life.

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8
New Hampshire Children's Health Foundation
Health
9
Androscoggin Head Start and Child Care

Promise Early Education Center's (formerly Androscoggin Head Start and Child Care) mission is to educate, engage and empower families, one child at a time.

—
10
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine Inc

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine creates, finds and supports programs that directly improve the health and well being of children statewide; provides affordable home away from home lodging which increases access to medical care for…

Health
11
Family Support Services of Suncoast

To be the leader in providing safety, stability, and quality of life for all children by working with the community to strengthen the family unit.

Human Services
12
Kids Corps Inc

Our mission is to provide a head start to families with children who need it most. By providing comprehensive early education and parent engagement services, Kids' Corps, Inc. of Anchorage prepares children birth to five years old who are…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Grieving Children and the most unlike its peers is Khan Economic Development Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr16%2%5–10yr21%25%10–20yr16%42%20–35yr11%19%35–55yr12%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr21%2%10–20yr16%60%20–35yr11%29%35–55yr12%9%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/58
the rest of the field
16%
6,811/43,827

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.

04the grantee network

57 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. 57 of the 76 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/57
Grantees still filing
40/57
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $10,609,317 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC+2 more — $50,000 · PhilanthropyFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $5,272,894 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE…MaineHealth — $1,500,000 · HealthMaineHeal…LifeFlight Foundation — $75,000 · Health+4 more — $70,000 · HealthChildren's Museum & Theater of Maine — $75,000 · OtherBoca Raton Elementary PTA — $53,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $50,000 · OtherBig Brothers Big Sisters of Southern ME — $50,000 · OtherDAVID & LEIGHAN RINKER FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · OtherBoca Raton Elementary School — $47,500 · OtherKIDSAFE FOUNDATION INC — $47,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $45,000 · OtherBoothbay Harbor Memorial Library — $35,000 · OtherGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $60,000 · OtherPALM BEACH SCHOOL FOR AUTISM INC — $30,000 · Other+30 more — $347,350 · OtherTHE PLACE OF HOPE AT THE HAVEN CAMPUS INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesThe Opportunity Alliance — $40,000 · Human ServicesKHAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC — $35,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA — $30,000 · Human ServicesGIVT INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN IN CRISIS INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesFLORENCE FULLER CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesPREBLE STREET — $20,000 · Human ServicesCASA INC — $20,000 · Human Services+6 more — $60,000 · Human ServicesBoys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentMy Place Teen Center Inc — $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS&GIRLS CLUBS OF KENNEBEC VALLEY — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Telling Room — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentKetcha Outdoors — $8,380 · Youth Development+1 more — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOCA HELPING HANDS INC — $100,600 · Food & NutritionGood Shepherd Food Bank — $25,000 · Food & NutritionCOVENANT SOUP KITCHEN INC — $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Philanthropy$10,659,317Community Improvement$5,272,894Health$1,645,000Other$890,100Human Services$390,000Youth Development$173,380Food & Nutrition$130,600

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $10,609,317 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $5,272,894 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaineHealth — $1,500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOCA HELPING HANDS INC — $100,600 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE PLACE OF HOPE AT THE HAVEN CAMPUS INC — $100,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetLifeFlight Foundation — $75,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine — $50,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Southern ME — $50,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetDAVID & LEIGHAN RINKER FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetMy Place Teen Center Inc — $45,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetThe Opportunity Alliance — $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSweet Dream Makers Inc — $40,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetKHAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC — $35,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN IN CRISIS INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetJobs for Maine's Graduates Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS&GIRLS CLUBS OF KENNEBEC VALLEY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFLORENCE FULLER CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN — $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetWESTERN MAINE PLAY MUSEUM — $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetDempsey Center for Quality Cancer Care — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFamily Promise of Southeast Florida Inc — $22,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetPREBLE STREET — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCASA INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Telling Room — $15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSTARTING RIGHT NOW — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKIDS FIRST CENTER — $15,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetSMART CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC — $13,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILD RESCUE COALITION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBOOTHBAY SEA AND SCIENCE CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetCOASTAL KIDS PRESCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGoals for Girls Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetSEEDMONEY — $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSANDCASTLE CLINICAL & EDUCATIONAL SERVICES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $10,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetALL STAR CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S SHELTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Angels Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSpace Coast Discovery Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Children's Place at Home Safe Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAMI MAINE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetA KID'S PLACE OF TAMPA BAY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKetcha Outdoors — $8,380 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

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.

Davis Family Foundati…Maine Community Found…Sam L Cohen FoundationVirginia Hodgkins Som…Onion FoundationBangor Savings Bank F…Agnes M Lindsay TrustSaco & Biddeford Savi…Td Charitable Foundat…Vincent B and Barbara…Simmons Foundation - …Horizon Foundation Inc
Davis Family FoundationME31.4× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Davis Family Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Virginia Hodgkins Somers Foundation Inc · Onion Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · Vincent B and Barbara G Welch Supporting Organization · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Horizon 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 Coulombe 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 20%
  • Child Rescue Coalition Inc — 20% of income from government
  • The Children's Home Society of Florida — 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Coulombe Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Coulombe Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 76 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home