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Conduit Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$26M
Granted FY2023
16
Grants FY2023
6
States reached
$6.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

International$24MCrime & Legal$7.8MReligion$5.5MHealth$5.2MPhilanthropy$3.3MEducation$2.3MPublic Safety & Disaster$2.1MArts & Culture$122kOther$0
02FY2023 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $48k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $615k
  • $250k+9 grants · $25M
$1,000,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$506k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS$6,018,000
WESTERN NEW ENGLAND INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS FUND$5,000,000
SHALEM FOUNDATION$4,250,000
Individual grant recipient$3,275,000
HATZOLAH EMERGENCY AIR RESPONSE$2,050,000
FIDELITY CHARITABLE FUND - WHITE ROSE FUND$1,698,522
THE CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL$1,565,001
THE AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE$1,000,000
CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF THE USVI$540,000
ISRAEL SELECT CHARITY$150,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
FRIENDS OF EMEK LONE SOLDIERS$100,000
UJA FEDERATION GREENWICH$100,000
ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE$100,000
EILAT CHARITIES INC$65,000
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 (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 74% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $520k → 16%FIDELITY CHARITABLE FUND - WHITE ROSE FUND: $1.7M → 9%THE CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL: $1.6M → 6%WESTCHESTER HEBREW HIGH SCHOOL: $310k → 9%HATZOLAH EMERGENCY AIR RESPONSE: $2.0M → 13%CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL: $160k → 17%FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $290k → 16%GV BK FD - GIVING GROUP COMMUNITY: $3.3M → 14%THE CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL: $1.2M → 6%ISRAEL SELECT CHARITY: $150k → 13%CARMEL ACADEMY: $500k → 9%GV BK FD - GIVING GROUP COMMUNITY: $1.0M → 14%THE CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL: $275k → 6%CARMEL ACADEMY: $376k → 9%WESTERN NEW ENGLAND INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS FUND: $5.0M → 12%THE CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL: $250k → 6%CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF GREENWICH: $315k → 9%THE CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL: $200k → 6%CARMEL ACADEMY: $263k → 9%CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF GREENWICH: $180k → 9%CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF GREENWICH: $180k → 9%SHALEM FOUNDATION: $4.3M → 17%CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF GREENWICH: $164k → 9%SHALEM FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 17%CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF GREENWICH: $143k → 9%SHALEM FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 17%UJA FEDERATION GREENWICH: $110k → 9%SHALEM FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 17%SHALEM FOUNDATION: $600k → 17%THE JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $430k → 17%THE JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $250k → 17%THE JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $250k → 17%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS: $6.0M → 17%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS: $2.2M → 17%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS: $1.9M → 17%THE AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE: $1.2M → 17%MANHATTAN JEWISH EXPERIENCE: $2.0M → 17%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS: $1.2M → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF PEACE OF MIND: $1.3M → 17%THE AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE: $1.0M → 17%THE JEWISH CENTER: $200k → 17%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS: $850k → 17%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS: $635k → 17%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS: $480k → 17%THE AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE: $250k → 17%THE AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE: $250k → 17%THE AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE: $150k → 17%THE AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE: $150k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
DC
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$31M · 23 repeat orgs$8.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2023, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
12

Total granted

$31M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
0%

Still filing today

61%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalCrime & LegalReligionFood & NutritionArts & CultureEducationOther
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

  • TS
    The Shalem Foundation
    5× · 2018–2023 · $7.8M · revenue +193%
  • CF
    Central Fund of Israel
    6× · 2017–2023 · $3.6M · revenue +145%
  • The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
    6× · 2017–2023 · $3.0M · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF PEACE OF MIND INC
    one grant, 2021 · $1.3M · revenue +18% · 70% of their budget
  • AI
    ASIF Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF JERUSALEM INTERNATIONAL YMCA
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -91%
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
Sherit Isroel
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2
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion
3
University of Judaism Foundation
—
4
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
5
Us Israel Education Fund Inc
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6
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
7
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
8
American Friends of Neveh Zion

To voluntarily assist the house of religious learning known as yeshiva neveh zion in israel

Religion
9
American Friends of Even Yisroel Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
10
American Friends of Zvi Latzadik Dba Breslov Research Institute Jerusalem

To foster jewish religious education and disseminate the teachings of rabbi nachman of breslov through publication and distribution of books and cds, as well as seminars, lectures and study groups.

International
11
Jewish Philosophy Fund Inc
Arts & Culture
12
Friends of Jerusalem

Friends of Jerusalem's mission is to provide assistance to the needs and indigent living in Jerusalem and all of Israel.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Israel Education Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is The University of the Virgin Islands. 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

25 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. 25 of the 42 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
17/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WESTERN NEW ENGLAND INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS FUND: $5,000,000 · OtherWESTERN NEW ENGLAND INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOANAL…Individual grant recipient: $4,375,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMANHATTAN JEWISH EXPERIENCE SYNAGOGUE: $2,500,000 · OtherMANHATTAN JEWISH EXPERIENCE SYNAGOGUEHATZOLAH EMERGENCY AIR RESPONSE: $2,093,000 · OtherHATZOLAH EMERGENCY AIR RESPONSEFIDELITY CHARITABLE FUND - WHITE ROSE FUND: $1,698,522 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE FUND - WHITE ROSE FUNDCHABAD LUBAVITCH OF THE USVI: $1,340,000 · OtherCHABAD LUBAVITCH OF THE USVICarmel Academy: $1,138,000 · OtherCHABAD LUBAVITCH OF GREENWICH INC: $1,081,600 · OtherUJA FEDERATION OF GREENWICH INC: $740,000 · Other+17 more: $1,726,355 · Other+17 morePEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $13,183,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS …Central Fund of Israel: $3,625,101 · InternationalCentral Fund of Israe…The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $2,966,000 · InternationalThe American Jewish J…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF PEACE OF MIND INC: $1,250,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF P…JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $930,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND …ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $700,000 · InternationalISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLI…+4 more: $868,000 · International+4 moreThe Shalem Foundation: $7,850,000 · Crime & LegalThe Shalem Found…+1 more: $10,000 · Crime & LegalFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $860,000 · Community ImprovementWESTCHESTER HEBREW HIGH SCHOOL: $605,000 · EducationJOSEPH SLIFKA CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT: $150,000 · ReligionEILAT CHARITIES INC: $115,000 · Religion
Other$21,692,477Philanthropy$13,183,000International$10,339,101Crime & Legal$7,860,000Community Improvement$860,000Education$605,000Religion$265,000

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 budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $13,183,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetThe Shalem Foundation: $7,850,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $3,625,101 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $2,966,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF PEACE OF MIND INC: $1,250,000 over 1y, 70% of budgetCarmel Academy: $1,138,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $930,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $860,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUJA FEDERATION OF GREENWICH INC: $740,000 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $700,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetWESTCHESTER HEBREW HIGH SCHOOL: $605,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc: $300,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetISRAEL SCHOLARSHIP EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $232,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HERZOG HOSPITAL INC: $160,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetJOSEPH SLIFKA CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT: $150,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetEILAT CHARITIES INC: $115,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetFriends of Emek Lone Soldiers Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetASIF Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $72,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF JERUSALEM INTERNATIONAL YMCA: $50,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC: $36,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHAVEI YISRAEL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 6.5% 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.

  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds The Shalem Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
  • Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF PEACE OF MIND INC ↗
  • Who funds Carmel Academy ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
  • Who funds UJA FEDERATION OF GREENWICH INC ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds WESTCHESTER HEBREW HIGH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL SCHOLARSHIP EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HERZOG HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds JOSEPH SLIFKA CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT ↗
  • Who funds EILAT CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Emek Lone Soldiers Inc ↗
  • Who funds ASIF Inc ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF JERUSALEM INTERNATIONAL YMCA ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHAVEI YISRAEL INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jewish Communal FundFjcJewish Community Foun…Combined Jewish Phila…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Jewish Communal FundNY31.5× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Fjc · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Conduit Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Conduit 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 42 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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