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The Comis Foundation 2423-00-48

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.

$2.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
52
Grants FY2025still arriving
17
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Youth Development$2.2MHuman Services$1.2MEducation$848kArts & Culture$678kPhilanthropy$180kRecreation & Sports$110kCivil Rights$100kFood & Nutrition$75kOther$0
02FY2025 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k21 grants · $556k
  • $50k–250k31 grants · $2.2M
$50,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Impact on Education$100,000
Friends of the Children - SF Bay Area$100,000
Friends of the Children - National$100,000
Friends of the Children - SF Bay Area$100,000
Kings Against Violence Initiative Inc$80,000
Peninsula Family Service$75,000
Music Will Inc$75,000
Upower$75,000
Communities in Schools Inc$75,000
Immigrant Family Services Institute Inc$75,000
First Graduate$75,000
New York University$75,000
ETM-Colorado Inc$75,000
Mindful Life Project$75,000
318 Foundation Inc$75,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%Tides Center: $60k → 16%Peninsula Family Service: $75k → 7%Sacred Heart Community Service: $25k → 8%Scopa Has A Dream Inc: $25k → 9%CentroNia: $25k → 14%The Family Center - La Familia: $75k → 11%Child Care Aware of America: $50k → 7%Immigrant Family Services Institute Inc: $75k → 16%We Care Services for Children: $40k → 9%CentroNia: $25k → 14%The Family Center - La Familia: $36k → 11%Child Care Aware of America: $25k → 7%We Care Services for Children: $40k → 9%CentroNia: $25k → 14%Child Care Aware of America: $25k → 7%We Care Services for Children: $40k → 9%Boulder Day Nursery Association: $75k → 12%LC AND LILLIE COX HAVEN OF HOPE: $50k → 9%Boulder Day Nursery Association: $75k → 12%LC AND LILLIE COX HAVEN OF HOPE: $50k → 9%Boulder Day Nursery Association: $20k → 12%LC AND LILLIE COX HAVEN OF HOPE: $50k → 9%Boulder Day Nursery Association: $20k → 12%Jewish Family & Children's Services: $50k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ND
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.6M · 22 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +6% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
14

Total granted

$3.6M
$348k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
0%

Still filing today

95%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN
    2× · 2024–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +88%
  • BD
    BOULDER DAY NURSERY ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $190k · revenue +6%
  • PP
    PARENT POSSIBLE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $168k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • FC
    Flower City Arts Center Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +17%
  • UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +19%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Ingenuity Prep

Ingenuity prep public charter school was formed to prepare students to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civiic leaders.

Education
2
Children's Aid College Prep Charter School

Prepare elementary & middle school students for success in high school, college & life.

Education
3
Achievekids

Achievekids schools provide individualized and multi-disciplinary programs that deliver special education, mental health, and family support services for students ages 5 to 22 who have complex and often severe developmental, emotional, and…

Education
4
Dc Bilingual Public Charter School

The mission of dc bilingual public charter school is to create a learning community that ensures high academic achievement for all students in both spanish and english, develops leadership, and values all cultures.

Education
5
The Campbell Institute

Children's institute's mission is to leverage research, practice, policy, and advocacy to shift systems toward justice for families so that all of oregon's children, prenatal to grade 5, have access to opportunity.

Unclassified
6
Child's Path Inc

Childs path strengthens and enriches the lives of working families and underserved children in collier county through high-quality early childhood education. 1. provides tuition-assistance for children aged birth to 5 years old to ensure…

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7
Allies for Every Child Inc

All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)

Human Services
8
Stem Advantage

Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…

Youth Development
9
Concordia Place

Concordia place's continuum of programs support families throughout their children's development, from the neonatal period through college entry: home visiting for expecting parents and infants, early childhood education and care for…

Human Services
10
Bigs & Littles Nyc Mentoring Inc

Bigs & littles nyc mentoring is a nonprofit community-based organization which transforms the lives of vulnerable nyc children and strengthens families through professionally guided one-to-one mentoring, life skills programming, and…

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11
The Santa Ynez Valley Family School

The family school is dedicated to providing a superior environment of child centered academic and creative programs which inspire a joy of learning and support critical thinking. we strive to prepare students to be compassionate,…

Education
12
Enterprise for Youth

Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Buffalo Prep Inc; the most unlike its peers is New York University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

57 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 57 of the 66 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/57
Grantees still filing
25/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $1,200,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF THE CHILDRENKings Against Violence Initiative Inc: $80,000 · Youth DevelopmentMindful Life Project: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentFIRST GRADUATE: $75,000 · Youth Development318 FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · Youth Development+4 more: $80,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOULDER DAY NURSERY ASSOCIATION: $190,000 · Human ServicesBOULDER DAY NURSERY ASS…TIDES CENTER: $160,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERLC AND LILLIE COX HAVEN OF HOPE: $150,000 · Human ServicesLC AND LILLIE COX HAVEN…We Care Services For Children: $120,000 · Human ServicesWe Care Services For Ch…THE FAMILY CENTERLA FAMILIA: $111,000 · Human ServicesTHE FAMILY CENTERLA FAM…CHILD CARE AWARE OF AMERICA: $100,000 · Human ServicesCHILD CARE AWARE OF AME…CENTRONIA: $75,000 · Human ServicesCENTRONIAIMMIGRANT FAMILY SERVICES INSTITUTE INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesIMMIGRANT FAMILY SERVIC…PENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE: $75,000 · Human ServicesPENINSULA FAMILY SERVIC…JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $50,000 · Human Services+2 more: $50,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA: $385,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE CHILDRE…PARENT POSSIBLE: $168,000 · EducationPARENT POSSIBLECOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $150,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLSNew York University: $125,000 · EducationNew York UniversityCHILDREN'S LITERACY INITIATIVE: $70,000 · EducationCHILDREN'S LITERACY IN…HOMEFRONT INC: $60,000 · EducationScience and Entrepreneurship Exchange: $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $50,000 · Education+3 more: $75,000 · Education+3 moreBay Area Music Project: $150,000 · Arts & CultureBay Area Musi…ETM-COLORADO INC: $125,000 · Arts & CultureETM-COLORADO …MUSIC WILL INC: $75,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC WILL IN…Harmony Project Bay Area Inc: $55,000 · Arts & CultureHarmony Proje…Flower City Arts Center Inc: $50,000 · Arts & CultureFlower City A…Chapter 510 Ink: $50,000 · Arts & CultureChapter 510 I…Enriching Lives Through Music: $45,000 · Arts & CultureEnriching Liv…SISTEMA UTAH: $40,000 · Arts & CultureSISTEMA UTAHCalifornia Dance Institute: $34,500 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN MURAL PROJECT INC: $30,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $35,000 · Arts & CultureIMPACT ON EDUCATION INC: $110,000 · OtherIMPACT ON EDUCAT…Community Education Network It: $75,000 · OtherCommunity Educat…National Black Womens Justice Institite Inc: $75,000 · OtherNational Black W…MISSION DOLORES ACADEMY: $54,970 · OtherMISSION DOLORES …Individual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant…Young Masterminds Initiative: $50,000 · OtherYoung Mastermind…PETER WESTBROOK FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · OtherPETER WESTBROOK …JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC: $50,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY & …BUFFALO PREP INC: $45,000 · OtherBUFFALO PREP INCI Have a Dream Foundation of Boulder: $35,000 · OtherUPOWER: $75,000 · OtherUPOWERWomens Audio Mission: $30,000 · Other+8 more: $117,790 · Other+8 moreDENVER CITY LAX: $110,000 · Recreation & SportsEARLY LEARNING VENTURES: $100,000 · Philanthropy
Youth Development$1,585,000Human Services$1,156,000Education$1,133,000Arts & Culture$689,500Other$817,760Recreation & Sports$110,000Philanthropy$100,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $1,200,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA: $385,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetBOULDER DAY NURSERY ASSOCIATION: $190,000 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetPARENT POSSIBLE: $168,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $160,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBay Area Music Project: $150,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLC AND LILLIE COX HAVEN OF HOPE: $150,000 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetETM-COLORADO INC: $125,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetNew York University: $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWe Care Services For Children: $120,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHE FAMILY CENTERLA FAMILIA: $111,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetIMPACT ON EDUCATION INC: $110,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetDENVER CITY LAX: $110,000 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetEARLY LEARNING VENTURES: $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCHILD CARE AWARE OF AMERICA: $100,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMUSIC WILL INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCENTRONIA: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMindful Life Project: $75,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFIRST GRADUATE: $75,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budget318 FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetPENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE: $75,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S LITERACY INITIATIVE: $70,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHOMEFRONT INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHarmony Project Bay Area Inc: $55,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetFlower City Arts Center Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetScience and Entrepreneurship Exchange: $50,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChapter 510 Ink: $50,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetBUFFALO PREP INC: $45,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetEnriching Lives Through Music: $45,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCalifornia Dance Institute: $34,500 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetWomens Audio Mission: $30,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE COMPLETE PLAYER CHARITY LTD: $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetWHEEL FUN: $25,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY CHILD CARE CENTER OF DELRAY BEACH INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetABOVE THE CLOUDS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF BUFFALO CREEK INC: $20,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetTHE CHALDEAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER DENVER CARES MENTORING: $20,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetBLACK GIRLS DO ENGINEER CORPORATION: $15,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetSAN DIEGO AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCREW LIFE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetFULL CIRCLE LIFE ENRICHMENT CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Marin Community Found…Crescent Porter Hale …The Morris Stulsaft F…The San Francisco Fou…Bothin FoundationQuest FoundationColorado Gives Founda…Tides FoundationTemple Hoyne Buell Fo…East Bay Community Fo…Daniels FundThe Denver Foundation
Marin Community FoundationCA21× affinity10 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · Crescent Porter Hale Foundation · The Morris Stulsaft Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Bothin Foundation · Quest Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Tides Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Daniels Fund · The Denver Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Comis Foundation 2423-00-48 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Comis Foundation 2423-00-48. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Homefront Inc: 9% of income from government
  • The Complete Player Charity Ltd: 6% of income from government
  • American Mural Project Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to The Comis Foundation 2423-00-48 through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 66 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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