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Conine 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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
21
Grants FY2024
24
Organizations funded FY2023
13%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$200,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 26
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$77M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 13% of the organizations Conine Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureRecreation & SportsEducationPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving20$963k15%
FY202324$6.6M13%
FY202226$7.5M19%
FY202125$5.4M60%
FY202011$4.3M82%
FY20194$90k75%
FY20182$400kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$12MEducation$4.5MRecreation & Sports$3.0MEnvironment$2.7MPhilanthropy$2.2MEmployment$425kHousing & Shelter$250kPublic Safety & Disaster$200kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
NY
MA
WY
OH
NJ
CA
CO
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($16M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Conine Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCornell University: $4,000,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEsplanade Association Inc: $1,625,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetMetrocommon Inc: $825,000 over 5y, 99% of budgetInternational Mountain Bicycling Association: $450,000 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetBikes Not Bombs Inc: $425,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetThe Trust for Public Land: $250,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGrand Teton National Park Foundation: $200,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBoston Cyclists Union Inc: $200,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetConservation Law Foundation Inc: $175,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSlate Valley Trails: $107,570 over 2y, 34% of budgetMuseum of Science: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNeponset River Watershed Association: $100,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club: $100,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMystic River Watershed Association Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetThird Sector New England Inc: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental League of Massachusetts Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetBike to the Sea Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetAstoria Park Conservancy: $50,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetMass Central Rail Trail Alliance Inc: $35,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetInnovation Network for Communities Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHale Education Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Center for Independent Documentary Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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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.

Lawrence & Lillian Solomon Foundation IncMA20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lawrence & Lillian Solomon Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Barr Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving 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.

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About Conine Family Foundation

How much does Conine Family Foundation give?
Conine Family Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $1,062,570 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Conine Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (44%), Education (16%), Recreation & Sports (11%).
Who are Conine Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Cornell University ($4.0M), Esplanade Association Inc ($1.6M), Metrocommon Inc ($825k).
Does Conine Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Conine Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Conine Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lawrence & Lillian Solomon Foundation Inc, Boston Foundation Inc, Barr Foundation.
Where is Conine Family Foundation based?
Conine Family Foundation is based in MA.

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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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