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THE STEPHEN A COMUNALE JR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

THE STEPHEN A COMUNALE JR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $876,203 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($599,400). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$2.6M
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$876k
Net assets
$7.2M
9/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 33%
01What it does

What The Stephen a Comunale Jr Charitable Foundation does

Programs

  1. The foundation seeks to ease the emotional stress, physical discomfort, and heavy burdens that confront cancer victims and their families through financial assistance with living expenses. The foundation provided financial assistance to approximately 5,500 individuals in 2025.

    $471,244 spent
  2. The foundation funds and executes social programs for children affected by cancer, including art and horse camps, back to school assistance. The foundation's programs served approximately 300 individuals in 2025.

    $10,204 spent
  3. The foundation provides tote bags containing various comfort items, called sunshine bags, to newly diagnosed cancer patients through area hospitals. Approximately 500 sunshine bags were distributed in 2025.

    $16,682 spent

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($495k) Expenses 100 ($437k) Net assets 100 ($2.8M)2018 Revenue 269 ($1.3M) Expenses 177 ($773k) Net assets 109 ($3.0M)2019 Revenue 110 ($542k) Expenses 140 ($611k) Net assets 117 ($3.2M)2020 Revenue 96 ($477k) Expenses 123 ($537k) Net assets 122 ($3.4M)2021 Revenue 393 ($1.9M) Expenses 209 ($914k) Net assets 164 ($4.5M)2022 Revenue 102 ($503k) Expenses 134 ($586k) Net assets 132 ($3.6M)2023 Revenue 357 ($1.8M) Expenses 237 ($1.0M) Net assets 186 ($5.1M)2024 Revenue 202 ($1.0M) Expenses 140 ($611k) Net assets 218 ($6.0M)2025 Revenue 525 ($2.6M) Expenses 295 ($1.3M) Net assets 261 ($7.2M)
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Revenue (525)Expenses (295)Net assets (261)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $3.6M to $5.2M (+42%).

$2.8M
$3.0M
$3.2M
$3.4M
$4.6M
$3.6M
$5.2M
$6.0M
$7.2M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Monica Stevens

Executive director

Board chair

Stephen Comunale

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.

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03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $43k → $60k.

5 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of THE STEPHEN A COMUNALE JR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

THE STEPHEN A COMUNALE JR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

93% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THE STEPHEN A COMUNALE JR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.

68%
largest funder
83%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 73% · 2019 89% · 2020 90% · 2021 36% · 2022 87% · 2023 33% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

43% of THE STEPHEN A COMUNALE JR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

89% of THE STEPHEN A COMUNALE JR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $99k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from Ohio funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $777k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE STEPHEN A COMUNALE JR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve10.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)23% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like THE STEPHEN A COMUNALE JR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE STEPHEN A COMUNALE JR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION?
THE STEPHEN A COMUNALE JR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $876,203 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($599,400). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does THE STEPHEN A COMUNALE JR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $876,203 in grants to THE STEPHEN A COMUNALE JR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE STEPHEN A COMUNALE JR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $599,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE STEPHEN A COMUNALE JR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 12 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing