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Conard-Davis Family Foundation at a glance

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Conard-Davis Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Science & Tech$6.0MEducation$3.9MHealth$1.8MSocial Science$275kArts & Culture$35kEnvironment$25kRecreation & Sports$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k3 grants · $475k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
$200,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$33M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COHERENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE$1,000,000
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE$250,000
WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE$200,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$200,000
Individual grant recipient$75,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL: $1.0M → 8%HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL: $250k → 16%COHERENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $500k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $300k → 14%THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $200k → 14%HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL: $500k → 8%COHERENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $500k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $200k → 14%PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $250k → 8%INTELLIGENCE SQUARED US: $50k → 17%INTELLIGENCE SQUARED US: $50k → 17%INTELLIGENCE SQUARED: $25k → 17%WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE: $450k → 17%WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE: $200k → 17%WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE: $200k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $200k → 17%WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE: $200k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $200k → 17%WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE: $200k → 17%CHAPIN SCHOOL: $517k → 17%CHAPIN SCHOOL: $417k → 17%CHAPIN SCHOOL: $417k → 17%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $83k → 17%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $83k → 17%COHERENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $1.5M → 17%COHERENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $1.0M → 17%COHERENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $500k → 17%COHERENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $500k → 17%COHERENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $500k → 17%COHERENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $500k → 17%SAFE WATER NETWORK: $25k → 17%COHERENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $500k → 17%AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $25k → 17%CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $10k → 17%AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $10k → 17%DE LA SALLE ACADEMY: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 8 repeat orgs$345k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
4

Total granted

$11M
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+19%

Still filing today

63%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TC
    THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD
    3× · 2019–2021 · $1.4M · revenue +9%
  • UO
    University of Michigan
    2× · 2019–2020 · $500k · revenue +140% · 76% of their budget
  • NY
    New York University
    2× · 2019–2020 · $167k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • SW
    SAFE WATER NETWORKgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +53%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • CP
    CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +17%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
2
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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3
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
4
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
5
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
6
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
7
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
8
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
9
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
10
The Central European University

Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…

International
11
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
12
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Chicago; the most unlike its peers is The Coherent Research Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
11/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Coherent Research Institute Inc: $6,000,000 · PhilanthropyThe Coherent Research Institute IncHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL: $1,750,000 · OtherHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOLWEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE: $1,250,000 · OtherWEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGEUniversity of Michigan: $500,000 · OtherUniversity of Michigan+3 more: $200,000 · Other+3 moreTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD: $1,350,000 · EducationTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTDTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $400,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMB…President and Fellows of Harvard College: $250,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows …University of Chicago: $200,000 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoNew York University: $166,666 · EducationNew York University+1 more: $10,000 · EducationAmerican Museum of Natural History: $35,000 · Arts & CultureSAFE WATER NETWORK: $25,000 · EnvironmentCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Philanthropy$6,000,000Other$3,700,000Education$2,376,666Arts & Culture$35,000Environment$25,000Recreation & Sports$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Coherent Research Institute Inc: $6,000,000 over 6y, 100% of budgetTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD: $1,350,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $500,000 over 2y, 76% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $400,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $166,666 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE WATER NETWORK: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Conard-Davis Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Conard-Davis Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Conard-Davis Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Conard-Davis Family Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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