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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 FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% 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
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k11 grants · $230k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $833k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$77M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
METRO FUTURE INC$200,000
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE$100,000
BIKES NOT BOMBS INC$100,000
MA BICYCLE COALITION$75,000
INTERNATIONAL MOUNTAIN BICYCLING ASSOCIATION$75,000
NEW ENGLAND MOUNTAIN BIKE$75,000
SLATE VALLEY TRAILS$57,570
MUSEUM OF SCIENCE$50,000
CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION$50,000
GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION$50,000
HALE EDUCATION$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
BOSTON CYCLISTS UNION$25,000
APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN CLUB$25,000
NEPONSET RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION$25,000
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 8%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%METRO FUTURE INC: $225k → 16%TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND VT: $100k → 10%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $1.0M → 16%DELBARTON SCHOOL: $50k → 4%GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $50k → 5%VERMONT HUTS LTD: $100k → 9%SLATE VALLEY TRAILS: $58k → 12%ESPLANADE ASSOCIATION: $1.1M → 16%TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND VT: $100k → 10%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $1.0M → 16%GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $50k → 5%VERMONT HUTS LTD: $100k → 9%SLATE VALLEY TRAILS: $50k → 12%METRO FUTURE INC: $200k → 16%TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND VT: $50k → 10%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $1.0M → 16%GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $50k → 5%VERMONT HUTS LTD: $50k → 9%ESPLANADE ASSOCIATION: $275k → 16%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $1.0M → 16%GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $50k → 5%NEW ENGLAND MOUNTAIN BIKE: $75k → 8%METRO FUTURE INC: $200k → 16%NEW ENGLAND MOUNTAIN BIKE: $75k → 8%ESPLANADE ASSOCIATION: $250k → 16%NEW ENGLAND MOUNTAIN BIKE: $75k → 8%METRO FUTURE INC: $175k → 16%NEW ENGLAND MOUNTAIN BIKE: $75k → 8%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $3.0M → 16%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $3.0M → 16%LIVABLE STREET TRANSPORTATION: $80k → 8%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $3.0M → 16%LIVABLE STREET TRANSPORTATION: $80k → 8%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $3.0M → 16%COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS: $565k → 16%COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS: $409k → 16%MUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $50k → 16%PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $100k → 8%MUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $50k → 16%PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $100k → 8%BIKES NOT BOMBS INC: $125k → 16%PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $100k → 8%BIKES NOT BOMBS INC: $100k → 16%PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $100k → 8%BIKES NOT BOMBS INC: $100k → 16%BIKES NOT BOMBS INC: $100k → 16%CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION: $50k → 16%MA BICYCLE COALITION: $75k → 16%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

VT
NH
NY
MA
WY
OH
NJ
CA
CO
FL
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$23M · 26 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +75% since the first grant, against -7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
11

Total granted

$23M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+75%
-7%

Still filing today

73%
9%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureEducationPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • Cornell University
    4× · 2020–2023 · $4.0M · revenue +46%
  • ESPLANADE ASSOCIATION INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $1.6M · revenue +187%
  • MI
    METROCOMMON INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $825k · revenue +296% · 99% of their budget

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $1.5M
  • FC
    FIDELITY CHARITY
    one grant, 2018 · $300k
  • DS
    DELBARTON SCHOOL
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
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
The Trustees of Reservations

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.

Environment
2
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
3
Massachusetts Outdoor Heritage Foundation Inc Attn Susan Sacco
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4
Rails to Trails Conservancy

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,…

Environment
5
Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc

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…

Environment
6
Wildlands Trust Inc

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…

Environment
7
Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc

To protect the nature of massachusetts for people and for wildlife through education, land conservation, advocacy, scientific research, and habitat stewardship/restoration.

Environment
8
Midcoast Conservancy

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.

Environment
9
Eastern National

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.

Recreation & Sports
10
The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust

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.

Environment
11
Manchester Essex Conservation Trust

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,…

Environment
12
Vermont Trails & Greenways Council

To promote trails and greenways and to ensure that people will always have access to the landscape of vermont.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Esplanade Association Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

24 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. 24 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
18/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $12,000,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALIndividual grant recipient: $1,500,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS: $974,000 · OtherCOMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS+16 more: $2,137,000 · Other+16 moreCornell University: $4,000,000 · EducationCornell UniversityPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $400,000 · EducationPresident and Fell…DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $1,720,000 · PhilanthropyGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $200,000 · PhilanthropyESPLANADE ASSOCIATION INC: $1,625,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $100,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMETROCOMMON INC: $825,000 · Community ImprovementTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $80,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $25,000 · Community ImprovementTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $250,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC: $175,000 · EnvironmentNeponset River Watershed Association: $100,000 · EnvironmentAppalachian Mountain Club: $100,000 · EnvironmentMYSTIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC: $100,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $75,000 · EnvironmentAstoria Park Conservancy: $50,000 · EnvironmentMass Central Rail Trail Alliance Inc: $35,000 · EnvironmentInternational Mountain Bicycling Association: $450,000 · Recreation & SportsSLATE VALLEY TRAILS: $107,570 · Recreation & SportsBike to the Sea Inc: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsHALE EDUCATION INC: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsBOSTON CYCLISTS UNION INC: $200,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$16,611,000Education$4,400,000Philanthropy$1,920,000Arts & Culture$1,735,000Community Improvement$930,000Environment$885,000Recreation & Sports$632,570Public Safety & Disaster$200,000

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 budgetCornell University: $4,000,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $1,720,000 over 1y, 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 budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $400,000 over 4y, 0.0% 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
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 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 MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ↗
  • Who funds Neponset River Watershed Association ↗
  • Who funds Appalachian Mountain Club ↗
  • Who funds MYSTIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • 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 ↗

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 So…Boston Foundation IncBarr FoundationAmerican Tower Corpor…Combined Jewish Phila…Eastern Bank Foundati…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Morgan Stanley Global…Renaissance Charitabl…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Endowment Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.

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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