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Confer-Creel Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$72k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$265kHuman Services$75kFood & Nutrition$16kReligion$5kPhilanthropy$4k
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF DALLAS$40,000
POETIC$10,000
PENNSYLVANIA WEST UNIVERSITY$3,856
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY$3,096
SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY$2,500
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH$2,500
Individual grant recipient$1,794
Individual grant recipient$1,780
MCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY$1,106
Individual grant recipient$463
Individual grant recipient$339
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF DALLAS: $40k → 14%CITY SQUARE: $15k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

MI
OH
PA
UT
VA
NC
LA
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$222k · 18 repeat orgs$143k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
17

Total granted

$222k
$79k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+17%

Still filing today

17%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationReligionOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • PE
    PARISH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL
    2× · 2019–2020 · $37k · revenue +12%
  • LU
    LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $12k · revenue +28%
  • FS
    FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE
    2× · 2019–2020 · $10k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • NT
    NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANKgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $16k · revenue +35%
  • C
    CITYSQUARE
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -54%
  • GU
    GANNON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +17%

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Evangel University

Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.

Education
2
Regent University

Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.

3
Austin Trinity School

Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…

Education
4
Northeastern Seminary

Northeastern seminary strives to be a vibrant source for christian theological formation whose students are formed in a biblical vision of gracious christianity and impact wholeness to the world in an expansive array of vocations and…

Education
5
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
6
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

7
University of the South

The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…

Education
8
LeTourneau University

Letourneau university is a comprehensive institution of christian higher education where educators engage learners to nurture christian virtue, to develop competency and ingenuity in their professional fields, to integrate faith and work,…

Education
9
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
10
George Fox University

George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.

Education
11
Loyola University

Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…

Education
12
Point Loma Nazarene University

Point loma nazarene university exists to provide higher education in a vital christian community where minds are engaged and challenged, character is modeled and formed, and service becomes an expression of faith. we aspire to be a…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Parish Episcopal School and the most unlike its peers is Poetic. 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

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 44 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY — $37,102 · OtherLOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITYPARISH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL — $37,000 · OtherPARISH EPISCOPAL SCHOOLMCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY — $30,119 · OtherMCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITYCLARION UNIVERSITY — $16,463 · OtherCLARION UNIVERSITYNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $16,000 · OtherNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANKIndividual grant recipient — $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKENT STATE UNIVERSITY — $13,168 · OtherINDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PA — $12,500 · OtherPENN STATE UNIVERSITY — $9,344 · Other+28 more — $77,236 · Other+28 moreCHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesCHILD PROTECTIVE SER…CITYSQUARE — $15,000 · Human ServicesCITYSQUAREPOETIC — $10,000 · Human ServicesPOETICLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC — $11,534 · EducationLIBERTY U…GANNON UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · EducationGANNON UN…FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE — $10,000 · EducationFLORIDA S…RECONCILIATION OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC — $5,000 · Religion
Other$263,932Human Services$65,000Education$31,534Religion$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPARISH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL — $37,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $16,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITYSQUARE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC — $11,534 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPOETIC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGANNON UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRECONCILIATION OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

  • Who funds CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC
  • Who funds PARISH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL
  • Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK
  • Who funds CITYSQUARE
  • Who funds LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds POETIC
  • Who funds GANNON UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE
  • Who funds RECONCILIATION OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA3.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Confer-Creel Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Florida Southern College0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 44 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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