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Comras Family Foundation Inc

Miami Beach, FL · EIN 81-1963020. Reported 54 grants totalling $452,463 to 36 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$452,463granted, 2021-2024
36organizations funded
36%of grantees funded again the next year
$843,676assets, 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. Comras Family Foundation Inc 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 $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,800 and $11,000; the smallest was $263 and the largest $36,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
5 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
20 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
6 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
21 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
2 grants

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
University of MiamiCoral Gables, FL$82,500442024
Woman of TomorrowDoral, FL$67,523442024
Greater Miami Jewish FederationMiami, FL$41,500222022
Jackson Health FoundationMiami, FL$40,000442024
Friends of IdfNew York, NY$36,000112023
Greater Miami Jewish Federation SupportMiami, FL$22,500112024
Jewish Miami FederationMiami, FL$20,000112023
Um Sylvester PledgeCoral Gables, FL$20,000222024
Nicklaus Childrens Hospital FoundationMiami, FL$15,000112021
Viscaya MuseumMiami, FL$13,000222023
AfmdaPalm Beach Gardens, FL$10,000112022
Eileen Youtie FoundationAdventura, FL$10,000112022
Jazz Aspen SnowmassAspen, CO$10,000222022
New World SymphonyMiami Beach, FL$10,000112024
Chabad House on WheelsMiami Beach, FL$5,400332024
The Miami Foundation (miami Fdn-Givemiamiday)Miami, FL$5,225112021
Mount Sinai MedicalMiami Beach, FL$5,000222022
Mount Sinai Young FoundersMiami Beach, FL$5,000222024
National Jewish Health EventsNew York, NY$5,000112021
The BassMaplewood, NJ$5,000112022
The Surfside Hardship Fund - in Partnershipwith the Miami Foundation & theCoral Gables, FL$5,000112021
Jewish Miami IsraelMiami, FL$2,500112023
United Hatzalah IsraelNew York, NY$2,500112023
Global Empowerment MissionDoral, FL$2,000112021
Innata IncMiramar, FL$2,000222023
Chabad Jewish SynagogueMiami Beach, FL$1,800112022
Israel Disc Bk NycBrooklyn, NY$1,800112024
Fair Child GardensCoral Gables, FL$1,000112022
Give Butter Friends of - DanielaWilmington, DE$1,000112023
Near and Far Aid - DanielaSouthport, CT$1,000112023
Temple EmanuelMiami Beach, FL$1,000112023
Less Fortuante ThanksgivingMiami Beach, FL$723112023
Eileen's LegacyAventura, FL$537112024
Lourdes Academy Soccer Drive - Valentina KalkaMiami, FL$417112024
Feeding South Florida Holiday DonationPembroke Park, FL$275112023
Josh Podell Tunnel of TowersStaten Island, NY$263112024

11 of 36 (31%) 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 36%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. 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 22 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Health Care
5 grants
Education
5 grants
Religion
4 grants
Public & Societal Benefit
2 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
2 grants
Arts & Culture
2 grants
International Affairs
1 grant
Public Safety & Disaster Relief
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202112$107,525$5,112
202214$122,200$5,500
202316$134,498$2,500
202412$88,240$4,211

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. 86% of this one's giving went to organizations in Florida. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Florida
$390K
New York
$46K
Colorado
$10K
New Jersey
$5K
Delaware
$1K
Connecticut
$1K

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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.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. 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 Florida.
  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 Comras Family Foundation Inc'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: 1261 20TH Street at West Ave, Miami Beach, FL, 33139. 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 81-1963020 · 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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