· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k11 grants · $230k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $833k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| METRO FUTURE INC | $200,000 |
| PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| BIKES NOT BOMBS INC | $100,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL MOUNTAIN BICYCLING ASSOCIATION | $75,000 |
| MA BICYCLE COALITION | $75,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND MOUNTAIN BIKE | $75,000 |
| SLATE VALLEY TRAILS | $57,570 |
| CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| MUSEUM OF SCIENCE | $50,000 |
| MYSTIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN CLUB | $25,000 |
| HALE EDUCATION | $25,000 |
| BOSTON CYCLISTS UNION | $25,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +75% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
Cornell University4× · 2020–2023 · $4.0M · revenue +46%
ESPLANADE ASSOCIATION INC3× · 2021–2023 · $1.6M · revenue +187%- MIMETROCOMMON INC5× · 2020–2024 · $825k · revenue +296% · 99% of their budget
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $1.5M
- FCFIDELITY CHARITYone grant, 2018 · $300k
- DSDELBARTON SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The rails-to-trails conservancy is the nations largest trails org. with a grassroots community more than 1 mil. strong dedicated to building a nation connected by trails, reimagining public spaces to create safe ways for everyone to walk,…
Sudbury valley trustees, inc. ("the organization") works to protect natural areas and farmland for wildlife and people in the 36 communities that surround the sudbury, assabet, and concord rivers. the organization cares for some of the…
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
To protect the nature of massachusetts for people and for wildlife through education, land conservation, advocacy, scientific research, and habitat stewardship/restoration.
The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust leads and inspires action to conserve and enhance the landscape of the Mountains to Sound Greenway, ensuring a long-term balance between people and nature.
Manchester essex conservation trust preserves in perpetuity the natural beauty, wildlife habitat, and open space resources in our two towns and adjacent communities. we protect this land through acquisitions, conservation restrictions,…
To promote trails and greenways and to ensure that people will always have access to the landscape of vermont.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Esplanade Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Grand Teton National Park Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 42 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 Cornell University ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds ESPLANADE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds METROCOMMON INC ↗
- Who funds International Mountain Bicycling Association ↗
- Who funds BIKES NOT BOMBS INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOSTON CYCLISTS UNION INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SLATE VALLEY TRAILS ↗
- Who funds Appalachian Mountain Club ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Neponset River Watershed Association ↗
- Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds Bike to the Sea Inc ↗
- Who funds Astoria Park Conservancy ↗
- Who funds Mass Central Rail Trail Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds INNOVATION NETWORK FOR COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds HALE EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
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 Conine Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Bike to the Sea Inc — 25% of income from government
- Mystic River Watershed Association Inc — 18% of income from government
- Neponset River Watershed Association — 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Bikes Not Bombs Inc — 2% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
- Museum of Science — 0% of income from government
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.