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Comras Family Foundation Inc

Miami Beach, FL · EIN 81-1963020. Reported 65 grants totalling $550,863 to 44 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$550,863granted, 2021-2025
44recipients, as named on its returns
33%of grantees funded again the next year
$923,471assets, 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 $2,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $263 and the largest $37,500. 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
23 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
11 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
23 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
3 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
University of MiamiCoral Gables, FL$120,000552025
Woman of TomorrowDoral, FL$72,523552025
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
First Horizon BankMiami Beach, FL$15,000112025
Nicklaus Childrens Hospital FoundationMiami, FL$15,000112021
Viscaya MuseumMiami, FL$13,000222023
Chabad House on WheelsMiami Beach, FL$10,800442025
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
The Bass MuseumMiami Beach, FL$10,000112025
Jazz at AspenAspen, CO$8,000112025
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
Njh-DonateDenver, CO$5,000112025
The BassMaplewood, NJ$5,000112022
The Surfside Hardship Fund - in Partnershipwith the Miami Foundation & theCoral Gables, FL$5,000112021
United HatzalahNew York, NY$5,000112025
VizcayaorgMiami, FL$3,000112025
Jewish Miami IsraelMiami, FL$2,500112023
Mount Sinai FoundationMiami Beach, FL$2,500112025
United Hatzalah IsraelNew York, NY$2,500112023
Fairchild GardenCoral Gables, FL$2,000112025
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 44 (25%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 33%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 25 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Education
6 grants
Health Care
5 grants
Religion
5 grants
Arts & Culture
3 grants
Public & Societal Benefit
2 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
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
202511$98,400$5,000

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

85% of its giving went to organizations in Florida. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

Florida
$470K
New York
$51K
Colorado
$23K
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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund8 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc7 shared recipientsJewish Communal Fund6 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust6 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program6 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc6 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  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 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

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.

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