Rhode Island · Private foundation
Lyn & Margaret Comfort Charitable 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.
- $28k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $418k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Lyn & Margaret Comfort Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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 | 25 | $28k | 12% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $39k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $31k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $29k | 24% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $25k | 6% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $7k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $18k | 5% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $59k | 19% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Sailing Hall of Fame & Museum Inc | $55,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Sail Newport | $45,334 | 7 | 1% |
| Aquidneck Island Land Trust | $15,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Sailing Foundation of New York Inc | $12,500 | 1 | 2% |
| Iyrs School of Technology & Trades Inc | $12,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Williams College | $11,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Center Against Rape and Domestic Violence | $8,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Better Bay Alliance Inc | $7,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Robert Potter League for Animals Inc | $6,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Herreshoff Marine Museum | $5,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($34k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lyn & Margaret Comfort Charitable 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: Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · Alletta Morris McBean Charitable Trust · Amica Companies Foundation · Ejmp Fund for Philanthropy · The de Ramel Foundation · Hamilton Family Foundation · Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust · Larry and Anne Glenn Foundation Inc · Kane Wallace Foundation · Banknewport Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Lyn & Margaret Comfort Charitable Foundation with peer funders
About Lyn & Margaret Comfort Charitable Foundation
- How much does Lyn & Margaret Comfort Charitable Foundation give?
- Lyn & Margaret Comfort Charitable Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $27,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lyn & Margaret Comfort Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (53%), Education (14%), Environment (9%).
- Who are Lyn & Margaret Comfort Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: National Sailing Hall of Fame & Museum Inc ($55k), Sail Newport ($45k), Aquidneck Island Land Trust ($15k).
- Does Lyn & Margaret Comfort Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lyn & Margaret Comfort Charitable 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 Lyn & Margaret Comfort Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc, The Rhode Island Community Foundation, The Champlin Foundation.
- Where is Lyn & Margaret Comfort Charitable Foundation based?
- Lyn & Margaret Comfort Charitable Foundation is based in RI.
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