New Jersey · Private foundation
Komar Family 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.
- $288k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 10
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Komar Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 57% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $147k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $288k | 30% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $258k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $263k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $182k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $87k | 75% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $188k | 43% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $204k | 67% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $72k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lunch Break Inc | $340,000 | 6 | 3% |
| New City Kids Inc | $275,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Miraclefeet | $180,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Boys and Girls Club of Monmouth County | $126,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Mdrc | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Clean Ocean Action Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Nyu Langone Hospitals | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| York Street Project | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Family and Children's Services Inc | $4,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Mercy Center Corporation | $3,500 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 15 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lunch Break Inc | $340,000 | 6 | 3% |
| New City Kids Inc | $275,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Miraclefeet | $180,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Boys and Girls Club of Monmouth County | $126,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Mdrc | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Clean Ocean Action Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Nyu Langone Hospitals | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| York Street Project | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Family and Children's Services Inc | $4,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Mercy Center Corporation | $3,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Purr N Pooch Foundation for Animals Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 3% |
| Zipf Memorial Scholarship Foundation Inc | $2,068 | 3 | 16% |
| The Colonel David B Kelly Foundation Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Spec Labs Inc | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Search Ministries Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($515k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Komar Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 of New Jersey · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Komar Family Foundation
- How much does Komar Family Foundation give?
- Komar Family Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $287,648 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Komar Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (27%), Health (21%), Food & Nutrition (21%).
- Who are Komar Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lunch Break Inc ($340k), New City Kids Inc ($275k), Miraclefeet ($180k).
- Does Komar Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Komar Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Komar Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of New Jersey, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.
- Where is Komar Family Foundation based?
- Komar Family Foundation is based in NJ.
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