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The Comfort Family 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $78k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $77k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CORNERSTONE CRAFTSMAN INC | $76,945 |
| ALEXANDRIA COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC | $35,750 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NOVA INC | $22,500 |
| ACT FOR ALEXANDRIA | $20,000 |
| SPITFIRE CLUB | $7,000 |
| ALEXANDRIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC | $5,750 |
| VOLUNTEER ALEXANDRIA INC | $5,000 |
| GRAPEVINE GIVING FOUNDATION | $207 |
| CARPENTERS SHELTER INC | $126 |
| THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL | $100 |
| ALIVE INC | $81 |
| SPACE OF HER OWN INCORPORATED | $54 |
| ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE OF ALEXANDRIA VIRGINIA INCORPORATED | $54 |
| ALEXANDRIA POLICE BOYS CAMP INC | $27 |
| ARCADIA FOOD INC | $27 |
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 (FY24–24, $81) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
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 -3% since the first grant, against -18% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 9 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, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k 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
- ACALEXANDRIA COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC3× · 2022–2024 · $107k · revenue -3%
- SCSPITFIRE CLUB3× · 2022–2024 · $18k · revenue -21%
- ASAlexandria Symphony Orchestra2× · 2023–2024 · $16k · revenue -57%
Funded once
- ESEmerging Scholars Program Incone grant, 2022 · $600 · revenue -18%
- SOSYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LEAGUE OF ALEXANDRIAone grant, 2023 · $150 · revenue -63%
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.
The Alexandria Singers is a non-profit education and mixed voice choral group that performs predominately American popular music, including pop tunes, show tunes, golden oldies, country and jazz - the only one of its kind in the Washington…
See Schedule O.Providing a forum for individuals, businesses and associations engaged in and concerned with the interest and welfare of the Alexandria area, formulating and advocating business positions on critical issues, representing its…
Our mission is to align, strengthen and sustain early childhood systems through collective leadership, equity, and innovation. to ensure every child in the City of Alexandria has a strong start in life.
The Alexandria Education Foundation is comitted to support excellence in education and expanding learning opportunities in Alexandria Public Schools.
To provide dignified access to free groceries for qualified families in Arlington, VA and surrounding counties.
Rebuilding Together DC Alexandria is dedicated to repairing homes and strengthening communities, bringing together volunteers, community partners, and skilled professionals to ensure that low-income homeowners can live safely and with…
Be an advocate for older Alexandrians to live safe, active and connected lives.
Through woodworking and boat building, the Alexandria Seaport Foundation builds workforce skills, self-worth, and community for disconnected youths. See Schedule O for additional information.
The Alexandria Choral Society is a community choral ensemble. We perform several concerts each year, and also participate in community outreach events throughout the City of Alexandria and surrounding area.
To help Alexandria City Public Schools students read on or above grade level by the end of kindergarten, first, and second grade.
AIA Virginia is the voice of the architecture profession in the Commonwealth of Virginia dedicated to serving its members, advancing their value, and improving the quality of the built environment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cornerstone Craftsman Inc and the most unlike its peers is Arcadia Food Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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.
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 ALEXANDRIA COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE CRAFTSMAN INC ↗
- Who funds ACT FOR ALEXANDRIA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NOVA INC ↗
- Who funds SPITFIRE CLUB ↗
- Who funds Alexandria Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds Volunteer Alexandria ↗
- Who funds CARPENTER'S SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Grapevine giving foundation ↗
- Who funds Emerging Scholars Program Inc ↗
- Who funds SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LEAGUE OF ALEXANDRIA ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ALIVE Inc ↗
- Who funds SPACE OF HER OWN INC ↗
- Who funds Animal Welfare League of Alexandria ↗
- Who funds ARCADIA FOOD INC ↗
- Who funds Alexandria Police Boys Camp Inc ↗
- Who funds WILDERNESS KIDS ALEXANDRIA INC ↗
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: The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · Act for Alexandria · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Calvert and Sally Simmons Foundation · Bruhn-Morris Family Foundation Inc · Kiwanis Foundation of Alexandria VA Inc · American Water Charitable Foundationinc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Maple Tree Fund · Washington Forrest Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Greater Washington Community Foundation
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 Comfort Family 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.
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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