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The Comegys Bight 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $79k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $233k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KENT SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| CAF AMERICA | $25,000 |
| ST ALBAN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $25,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY & MEDICINE | $25,000 |
| Arizona Opera | $25,000 |
| METROPOLITAN OPERA | $20,000 |
| THE HILL SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| Buckley Institute | $18,676 |
| SIGLER WESTERN MUSEUM | $16,750 |
| DEL WEBB CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $12,500 |
| MARYLAND CENTER FOR HISTORY AND CULTURE | $10,000 |
| Central City Opera | $10,000 |
| STRATFORD HALL | $8,311 |
| VAIL MOUNTAINEERS HOCKEY CLUB | $7,500 |
| GOLDWATER INSTITUTE | $5,085 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
48 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 6 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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
- SHSTRATFORD HALL9× · 2017–2025 · $268k · revenue +52%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF GARSINGTON OPERA INC3× · 2018–2020 · $115k · revenue +15% · 32% of their budget
- MHMARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $100k · revenue +329%
Funded once
- SOSCHOOL OF THE WOODS--AMERICAN MONTESSORI SOCIETYone grant, 2018 · $10k
- CCCONCORD CARLISLE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +34%
- SPST PETER'S BY THE LAKEone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…
The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The broad mission of the ASCSA has remained constant over its distinguished history: teaching research archaeological exploration publication and dissemination of research. Founded in 1881 the ASCSA provides graduate students and scholars…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
The museum of the american revolution uncovers and shares compelling stories about the diverse people and complex events that sparked america's ongoing experiment in liberty, equality and self-government.
Degree granting college-maryland institute college of art is a private college dedicated to the education of professional artists and the further advancement of art in the community.
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stratford Hall and the most unlike its peers is Historical Society of Kent Co Md. 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 46 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 85 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 STRATFORD HALL ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA OPERA COMPANY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF GARSINGTON OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DESERT CABALLEROS WESTERN MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds DEL E WEBB CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BUCKLEY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KENT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The Mustique Charitable Foundation ↗
- Who funds KENT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
- Who funds SULTANA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST ANNE'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Wickenburg Community Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds CONCORD CARLISLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds Travis Manion Foundation ↗
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: David a Bramble Foundation Inc · Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Wellik Foundation · The Kemper & Ethel Marley Fdn · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jewish Communal Fund
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 The Comegys Bight 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Maryland Historical Society Inc — 9% of income from government
- Sultana Education Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- Washington College — 0% of income from government
- St Anne's Episcopal School — 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.
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