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Gertrude and Leonard McCombe 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.

$85k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What you fund
0186% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Health$243kHuman Services$112kEnvironment$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $64k
$5,300
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE COALITION FOR WOMEN'S CANCERS$21,250
EAST END HOSPITAL$21,250
HEART OF THE HAMPTONS$21,250
Individual grant recipient$5,300
CATHOLIC HOME CARE$5,300
NATIONAL OVARIAN CANCER COALITION$5,300
STRENGTH FOR LIFE$5,300
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 (FY24–25, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE COALITION FOR WOMEN'S CANCERS: $21k → 7%THE COALITION FOR WOMEN'S CANCERS: $21k → 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.

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$374k · 8 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
4

Total granted

$374k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+73%

Still filing today

63%
100%

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
HealthFood & NutritionHuman ServicesOther

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

  • NS
    NURSING SISTERS HOME CARE INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $63k · revenue +1%
  • NO
    NATIONAL OVARIAN CANCER COALITION INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $23k · revenue +16%
  • SF
    STRENGTH FOR LIFE INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $11k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • TC
    The Clearity Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -26%
  • SS
    SHARE SELF-HELP FOR WOMEN WITH BREAST OR OVARIAN CANCER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +51%
  • TS
    THE SASS-ARENA FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH INC(FKA SASS FDN FOR MED RES)graduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue ×13

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
Breast Cancer Network of Western New Yorkinc

Our mission is to support the well being of all western new yorkers impacted by breast cancer.

Health
2
Foundation for Women's Cancer

To support and empower all affected by gynecologic cancers through education, research, and public awareness.

Health
3
Ovarian Cancer Research Inc
Philanthropy
4
Brca Research and Cure Alliance
Health
5
Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation

To raise awareness of triple negative breast cancer and to support research into the causes of triple negative breast cancer , so that an effective diagnosis, treatment, and prevention can be pursued and achieved.

Health
6
Breast Cancer Help Inc

Increasing research into the cause, treatment and cure of breast cancer; improving access for all women to high quality breast cancer screening, diagnosis and treatment; and encouraging other areas to conduct mapping and surveys to help…

7
New Hampshire Breast Cancer Coalition

The mission of the new hampshire breast cancer coalition is to advocate for and provide assistance to new hampshire residents with breast cancer

8
Society of Gynecologic Oncology

Society of gynecologic oncology's (sgo) mission is to improve the care of patients with gynecologic cancer; to advance knowledge and raise standards of practice in gynecologic oncology; to encourage research in gynecologic oncology; and,…

Health
9
Northwell Health Cancer Institute Inc

Northwell health cancer institute is part of northwell health, inc. ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
10
Breast Cancer Resource Center

The mission of bcrc is to empower those affected by breast cancer with personalized support and compassion. bcrc is organized at the grass roots level by breast cancer survivors for the primary purpose of providing information and…

Health
11
Commonwealth Cancer Consortium Inc

Break through cancer is a foundation dedicated to supporting translational research in the most difficult to treat cancers. our partner organizations are among the top cancer research centers and together, represent some of the most…

12
Hearing the Ovarian Cancer Whisper Inc

To support basic or translational research for ovarian cancer, offerfinancial assistance to local women who are suffering from ovariancancer, provide free educational programs and offer scholarship toflorida medical students interested in…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nursing Sisters Home Care Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Gino Macchio Foundation 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 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EAST END HOSPITAL — $94,875 · OtherEAST END HOSPITALIndividual grant recipient — $27,881 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE SASS FOUNDATION — $17,281 · OtherTHE SASS FOUNDATION+1 more — $2,000 · OtherNURSING SISTERS HOME CARE INC — $62,975 · HealthNURSING SISTERS HOME CARE INCNATIONAL OVARIAN CANCER COALITION INC — $22,569 · HealthNATIONAL OVARIAN CANCER COALIT…STRENGTH FOR LIFE INC — $10,600 · HealthSTRENGTH FOR LIFE INCThe Clearity Foundation — $4,843 · Health+2 more — $4,000 · HealthHEART OF THE HAMPTONS LTD — $94,875 · Food & NutritionHEART OF THE HAMPTONS LTDTHE COALITION FOR WOMENS CANCERS INC — $42,500 · Human ServicesTHE COALITIO…
Other$142,037Health$104,987Food & Nutrition$94,875Human Services$42,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHEART OF THE HAMPTONS LTD — $94,875 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetNURSING SISTERS HOME CARE INC — $62,975 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COALITION FOR WOMENS CANCERS INC — $42,500 over 2y, 12% of budgetNATIONAL OVARIAN CANCER COALITION INC — $22,569 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSTRENGTH FOR LIFE INC — $10,600 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetThe Clearity Foundation — $4,843 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHARE SELF-HELP FOR WOMEN WITH BREAST OR OVARIAN CANCER INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SASS-ARENA FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH INC(FKA SASS FDN FOR MED RES) — $2,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTHE GINO MACCHIO FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Gertrude and Leonard McCombe 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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, FY2025

    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

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    How do I get to Gertrude and Leonard McCombe Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Gertrude and Leonard McCombe 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 12 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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