· Private foundation
Julius V & Alice G Combs Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ART IN MOTION | $5,000 |
| MONEY MATTERS FOR YOUTH | $5,000 |
| OPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| BRAZEAL DENNARD CHORALE | $1,000 |
| CHILDREN'S CENTER | $1,000 |
| DURFEE AMERICAN GIRLS READING CLUB | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 3 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DCDETROIT COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL2× · 2018–2019 · $10k · revenue +28%
- OIOPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $10k · revenue +78%
- BTBOUND TOGETHER3× · 2018–2021 · $1k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
- WWWARRIOR WOMEN AGAINST POVERTYone grant, 2020 · $10k
- VVARIOUSone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
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.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
The college for creative studies nurtures the creativity that is vital to the enrichment of modern culture. the college educates visual artists and designers, knowledgeable in varied fields, who will be leaders in creative professions that…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Benedict college is committed to providing transformative learning experiences characterized by high quality academic, co-curricular and extra-curricular programming, intentionally designed to develop superior cultural and professional…
Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…
Delta dental fund's mission is to improve the oral health of the public and to advance dental science and the dental profession through research and education.
Detroit Mercy, a Catholic university in the Jesuit and Mercy traditions, exists to provide excellent student-centered undergraduate and graduate education in an urban context. A UDM education seeks to integrate the intellectual, spiritual,…
See schedule o.drake's mission is to provide an exceptional learning environment that prepares students for meaningful personal lives, professional accomplishments, and responsible global citizenship. the drake experience is distinguished…
Colgate university's mission is to provide a demanding, expansive educational experience to a select group of diverse, talented, intellectually sophisticated students who are capable of challenging themselves, their peers and their…
The mission of baker college is to provide an inclusive, innovative, and transformative educational experience which allows students to positively impact their lives and the world around them.
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 61 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 DETROIT COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds OPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds ONE LOVE GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds BOUND TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds LANE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds BRAZEAL DENNARD CHORALE ↗
- Who funds CO-ETTE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT JAZZ FESTIVAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Julius V & Alice G Combs Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Julius V & Alice G Combs Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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