· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL SAILING HALL OF FAME | $5,000 |
| IYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES | $3,500 |
| AQUIDNECK LAND TRUST | $3,000 |
| SAIL NEWPORT | $2,000 |
| NEWPORT TREE CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| AQUIDNECK COMMUNITY TABLE | $1,000 |
| MARTIN LUTHER KING CENTER | $1,000 |
| BETTER BAY ALLIANCE | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| CONANICUT ISLAND SAILING FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| FARM FRESH RI | $1,000 |
| CENTER AGAINST RAPE & DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | $1,000 |
| SEAMAN'S CHURCH INSTITUTE | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| HERRESHOFF MARINE MUSEUM | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 15% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- ISIYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES INC7× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +15%
Williams College7× · 2017–2023 · $11k · revenue +87%
ROBERT POTTER LEAGUE FOR ANIMALS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $6k · revenue +223%
Funded once
- TSTHE SAILING FOUNDATION OF NEW YORK INCone grant, 2024 · $13k · revenue 0%
- NSNATIONAL SAILING HALL OF FAMEone grant, 2018 · $2k
- USUNITED STATES SAILING ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue -5%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
Rimta's mission is to champion the rhode island marine industry through advocacy, education, environmental stewardship, innovation and promotion.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Sea educates and inspires ocean scholars, stewards and leaders. sea fosters and enhances knowledge about the state of oceans and coastal communities. it also helps shape public dialogue and policy through long-term environmental reseach,…
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
To engage people of all ages in the joy of sailing, offering access to all nantucket's youth, and teaching every participant in our programs enduring life and leadership skills, with a deep respect for the marine environment.
To protect, preserve and interpret the martime heritage of the lower Merrimack Valley region and how it relates to American History
To support, promote, and advance the mission of the naval academy.
The new england air museum's mission is to preserve and present the story of aviation and aerospace, with an emphasis on new england's role, and the genius and inspiration that made it possible. the museum also seeks to inspire young…
The northeastern regional association of coastal and ocean observing systems' (neracoos) mission is to produce, integrate and communicate high- quality information that helps ensure safety, economic and environmental resilience, and…
Preserve ri's vision is a future where historic preservation creates positive change, making our diverse cultures, the environment, and the economy better for the people who live, visit and work in rhode island. preserve ri's mission is to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Bay Inc and the most unlike its peers is Newport String Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
28 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. 28 of the 41 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds NATIONAL SAILING HALL OF FAME & MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SAIL NEWPORT ↗
- Who funds AQUIDNECK ISLAND LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE SAILING FOUNDATION OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds IYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES INC ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds Center Against Rape and Domestic Violence ↗
- Who funds ROBERT POTTER LEAGUE FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds HERRESHOFF MARINE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAIL TO PREVAIL ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AQUIDNECK COMMUNITY TABLE ↗
- Who funds THE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES SAILING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE BAY INC ↗
- Who funds CANTERBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF NEWPORT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT ART MUSEUM AND ART ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CONANICUT ISLAND SAILING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Newport Tree Conservancy ↗
- Who funds NAVAL WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT ↗
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.
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
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 Lyn & Margaret Comfort Charitable 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.
- Williams College — 0% of income from government
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.