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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 you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

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

Your grants by size, and where they go.

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
Friends of the Children - SF Bay Area$100,000
Friends of the Children - SF Bay Area$100,000
Friends of the Children - National$100,000
Impact on Education$100,000
Kings Against Violence Initiative Inc$80,000
New York University$75,000
ETM-Colorado Inc$75,000
Community Education Network It$75,000
Music Will Inc$75,000
Boulder Day Nursery Association$75,000
National Black Womens Justice Institute$75,000
Mindful Life Project$75,000
First Graduate$75,000
Peninsula Family Service$75,000
Upower$75,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your 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. Your 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

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

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

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +6% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you 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%
+1%

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

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

  • 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

  • UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +19%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +6%
  • FC
    Flower City Arts Center Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%

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

04Your field

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.

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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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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
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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
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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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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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Buffalo Prep Inc and 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.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsYouth Sports ProgramsSchool District FoundationsCommunity Arts CentersOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Independent K-12 Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%21%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%11%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr16%35%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%12%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/59
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,506

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.

04the grantee network

57 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. 57 of the 66 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/57
Grantees still filing
26/57
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN — $1,200,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF THE CHILDRENKings Against Violence Initiative Inc — $80,000 · Youth Development318 FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentMindful Life Project — $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentFIRST GRADUATE — $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…IMMIGRANT FAMILY SERVICES INSTITUTE INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesIMMIGRANT FAMILY SERVIC…CENTRONIA — $75,000 · Human ServicesCENTRONIAPENINSULA 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 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $50,000 · EducationScience and Entrepreneurship Exchange — $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…Chapter 510 Ink — $50,000 · Arts & CultureChapter 510 I…Flower City Arts Center Inc — $50,000 · Arts & CultureFlower City A…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…National Black Womens Justice Institite Inc — $75,000 · OtherNational Black W…Community Education Network It — $75,000 · OtherCommunity Educat…MISSION DOLORES ACADEMY — $54,970 · OtherMISSION DOLORES …Young Masterminds Initiative — $50,000 · OtherYoung Mastermind…PETER WESTBROOK FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · OtherPETER WESTBROOK …Individual grant recipient — $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant…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 org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS — $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLC AND LILLIE COX HAVEN OF HOPE — $150,000 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetBay Area Music Project — $150,000 over 3y, 6.5% 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 budgetCHILD CARE AWARE OF AMERICA — $100,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEARLY LEARNING VENTURES — $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budget318 FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetMindful Life Project — $75,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCENTRONIA — $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE — $75,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMUSIC WILL INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFIRST GRADUATE — $75,000 over 1y, 3.3% 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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetScience and Entrepreneurship Exchange — $50,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetChapter 510 Ink — $50,000 over 2y, 2.9% 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 budgetFlower City Arts Center Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetEnriching Lives Through Music — $45,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBUFFALO PREP INC — $45,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCalifornia Dance Institute — $34,500 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetWomens Audio Mission — $30,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY CHILD CARE CENTER OF DELRAY BEACH INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE COMPLETE PLAYER CHARITY LTD — $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetWHEEL FUN — $25,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetSACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHALDEAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF BUFFALO CREEK INC — $20,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetABOVE THE CLOUDS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 4.7% 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
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.

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.

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

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 Comis Foundation 2423-00-48 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%your 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

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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How do I get to The Comis Foundation 2423-00-48?

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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 66 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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