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Comora Family Foundation

New York, NY · EIN 26-0013674. Reported 123 grants totalling $1,081,874 to 72 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,000median grant
$1,081,874granted, 2021-2024
72organizations funded
57%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,398,092assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Comora Family Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $1,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $250 and $5,000; the smallest was $19 and the largest $500,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
51 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
41 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
8 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
13 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
8 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant
$100,000 and Up
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Columbia UniversityNew York, NY$536,000442024
American Museum of Fly FishingManchester, VT$98,110442024
WhitebyGreenwich, CT$95,250222022
HadassahNew York, NY$51,000222024
Feeding WestchesterElmsford, NY$41,000442024
Access Psychology FoundationWhite Plains, NY$40,000222024
Natural Resources Defense CouncilNew York, NY$25,000112023
PcaColumbia, MD$25,000112021
International Rescue CommitteeNew York, NY$20,000222023
Kpsf (kaplan Public Service Foundation)New York, NY$16,000112024
Allies in HopeS Glastonbury, CT$12,500222023
Project Healing WatersAlbuquerque, NM$12,500222024
Round Hill Fire DepartmentGreenwich, CT$12,000332024
Positive Coaching AllianceOakland, CA$10,000112023
Cubs for KidsWhite Plains, NY$9,300332024
Congregation B'nai YisraelArmonk, NY$8,450332024
United States Holocaust MuseumWashington, DC$6,000442024
Fusion PartnershipBaltimore, MD$5,000112022
Solvay Scholarship FundSyracuse, NY$5,000112021
Songs for Kids FoundationAtlanta, GA$5,000112024
The National World War II MuseumNew Orleans, LA$4,000442024
Berkeley College FoundationWoodland Park, NJ$3,000332024
The Actors FundNew York, NY$3,000332023
Bryan Brothers FoundationEaston, MD$2,500112021
Dick Barnett FoundationNew York, NY$2,500112021
Tenement MuseumNew York, NY$2,500112024
Make a Wish FoundationNew York, NY$2,000112021
National Center for Family PhilanthropyWashington, DC$2,000222023
Greenwich Firefighters AssociationGreenwich, CT$1,750332024
The Class of 1959 Scholarship FundTeaneck, NJ$1,500442024
ThirteenNew York, NY$1,500442024
Doctors Without BordersNew York, NY$1,300112021
Cop GreenwichGreenwich, CT$1,250332024
GemsNew York, NY$1,250222024
Bk Gita PatelLos Angeles, CA$1,000442024
Central Fund of IsraelCedarhurst, NY$1,000112023
Columbia Business SchoolNew York, NY$1,000112022
Diabetes Research IntituteNew York, NY$1,000112021
Greenwich Emergency ServicesRiverside, CT$1,000112023
Patriots CircleWashington, DC$1,000112021
PeaceLake Worth, FL$1,000112023
PotsBronx, NY$1,000112021
Sansum Diabetes Research InstituteSanta Barbara, CA$1,000112022
TrcpWashington, DC$1,000112021
University of MichiganAnn Arbor, MI$1,000112021
Animal Rescue FoundationBeacon, NY$750332024
Armonk Fire DeptArmonk, NY$600332023
American Diabetes AssociationArlington, VA$500112024
American Kidney FundMelville, NY$500112021
Glenville Volunteer Fire CompanyGreenwich, CT$500112024
JdrfNew York, NY$500112021
Planned ParenthoodNew York, NY$500112021
White Plains HospitalWhite Plains, NY$500112024
White Plains PbaWhite Plains, NY$400112021
Angelica Women's Chamber ChoirHastingsonhudson, NY$250112021
Armonk Fire DepartmentArmonk, NY$250112024
Cathedral of St JohnNew York, NY$250112023
Michael J Fox FoundationNew York, NY$250112021
Pba North Castle PoliceArmonk, NY$250112023
The Brewster Education FoundationBrewster, NY$250112023
The Childrens VillageNew York, NY$250112021
Greenwich Silver ShieldGreenwich, CT$200112021
TagLakewood, NJ$200112021
Hebrew Institute of RiverdaleBronx, NY$150112024
Environmental Defense FundNew York, NY$100112022
Little ShelterHuntington, NY$100112021
National Parks FoundationWashington, DC$100112021
Nature ConservancyNew York, NY$100112021
Animal Care CentersNew York, NY$75112021
Neighborhood CatsNew York, NY$75112021
Smithsonian InstitutionWashington, DC$74222022
Trout UnlimitedArlington, VA$40112021

26 of 72 (36%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 57%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 56 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Arts & Culture
15 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
7 grants
Animal Welfare
5 grants
Human Services
4 grants
Youth Development
3 grants
International Affairs
3 grants
Mutual Benefit
3 grants
Education
3 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202144$132,234$512
202222$624,930$1,000
202330$160,090$1,000
202427$164,620$1,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 72% of this one's giving went to organizations in New York. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

New York
$776K
Connecticut
$124K
Vermont
$98K
Maryland
$32K
New Mexico
$12K
California
$12K
District of Columbia
$10K
Georgia
$5K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund18 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc16 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc15 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust13 shared recipientsAmerican Endowment Foundation11 shared recipientsJewish Communal Fund11 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New York.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Comora Family Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 450 Seventh Avenue 4100, New York, NY, 10123. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 26-0013674 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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