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Conston 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.

$95k
Granted FY2024still arriving
53
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Philanthropy$214kReligion$87kInternational$82kCivil Rights$63kEducation$52kHealth$37kFood & Nutrition$30kHuman Services$22kOther$0
02FY2024 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k51 grants · $66k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $29k
$1,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHOP FOUNDATION$15,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA$14,000
HIAS$5,000
NEW SANCTUARY MOVEMENT$4,000
SOUTH PHILADELPHIA SHTIEBEL$3,500
PARTNERS IN HEALTH$3,500
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$3,000
ONE FAMILY FUND$2,500
FRIENDS OF ISRAELI DISABLED VETERAN (FIDV)$2,500
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$2,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$2,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$2,000
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$2,000
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$2,000
PHILABUNDANCE$2,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $1k → 14%GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $500 → 14%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $500 → 22%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $500 → 22%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $500 → 22%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $500 → 22%FAMILY PROMISE OF PHILADELPHIA: $500 → 22%FAMILY PROMISE OF PHILADELPHIA: $500 → 22%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $500 → 22%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE: $2k → 17%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE: $1k → 17%FAMILY PROMISE OF PHILADELPHIA: $250 → 22%THE ABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA: $500 → 22%THE ABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA: $250 → 22%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

NH
IL
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CA
UT
MO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
DC
AL
TX
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$546k · 72 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

72 repeat relationships: 46 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

72
18

Total granted

$546k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+33%

Still filing today

65%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHuman ServicesCivil RightsHealthEducationFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TG
    THE GLADWYNE MONTESSORI SCHOOL
    5× · 2019–2023 · $31k · revenue +60%
  • HI
    HIAS INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $21k · revenue +94%
  • NEW SANCTUARY MOVEMENT OF PHILADELPHIA
    6× · 2019–2024 · $19k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • JA
    JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -28%
  • GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -40%
  • Feeding Americagraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +40%
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 Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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2
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
3
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
4
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
5
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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6
Women's Law Project

Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…

Civil Rights
7
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
8
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
9
Committee to Protect Journalists Inc

The committee to protect journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. cpj ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever…

Civil Rights
10
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
11
International Crisis Group

Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…

International
12
International Bridges to Justice

In recognition of the fundamental principles of the universal declaration of human rights, international bridges to justice (ibj) is dedicated to protecting the basic legal rights of ordinary citizens in developing countries. specifically,…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma; the most unlike its peers is Heeding Gods Call. 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

72 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. 72 of the 100 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/72
Grantees still filing
53/72
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHOP FOUNDATION: $69,000 · OtherCHOP FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $58,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTIKKUN OLAM CHAVURAH: $51,000 · OtherTIKKUN OLAM CHAVURAHTHE GLADWYNE MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $31,000 · OtherTHE GLADWYNE MONTESSORI SCHOOLMAIN LINE REFORM TEMPLE (MLRT): $20,000 · OtherMAIN LINE REFORM TEMPLE (MLRT)JDC: $13,300 · OtherSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $13,000 · Other+49 more: $117,350 · Other+49 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $109,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION …+1 more: $2,000 · PhilanthropyHIAS INC: $20,600 · InternationalHIAS INCONE FAMILY FUND: $11,000 · InternationalONE FAMILY FU…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $8,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIE…FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC: $5,500 · InternationalFRIENDS OF IS…JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $5,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATION…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $4,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS…FAIR GIRLS INC: $4,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $4,000 · InternationalT'RUAH: $3,000 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $3,000 · International+9 more: $10,250 · International+9 moreNEW SANCTUARY MOVEMENT OF PHILADELPHIA: $19,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $11,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $7,000 · Civil Rights+3 more: $2,200 · Civil RightsBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $10,250 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $7,900 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH: $4,000 · HealthALS Hope Foundation: $1,500 · HealthPhilabundance: $13,500 · Food & NutritionMETROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE: $12,000 · Food & NutritionCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $2,500 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $1,500 · Food & NutritionWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesGREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $1,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF PHILADELPHIA: $1,250 · Human ServicesNATIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOTLINE: $1,000 · Human ServicesABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA: $750 · Human Services
Other$372,650Philanthropy$111,000International$78,850Civil Rights$39,200Health$33,650Food & Nutrition$29,500Human Services$21,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $109,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GLADWYNE MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $31,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHIAS INC: $20,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEW SANCTUARY MOVEMENT OF PHILADELPHIA: $19,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetPhilabundance: $13,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $13,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetONE FAMILY FUND: $11,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $11,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $10,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $9,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $7,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MIQUON SCHOOL: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $4,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH: $4,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFAIR GIRLS INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJACK M BARRACK HEBREW ACADEMY: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetT'RUAH: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Coalition of Immokalee Workers Inc: $2,650 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA STUDENT UNION: $2,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ATTIC YOUTH CENTER: $2,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPATHWAYS TO HOUSING - PA: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIMBALL UNION ACADEMY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL TRAFFICKING SHELTERED ALLIANCE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALS Hope Foundation: $1,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN - DC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds THE GLADWYNE MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds HIAS INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW SANCTUARY MOVEMENT OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds Philabundance ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds ONE FAMILY FUND ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MIQUON SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS SELECT SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds FAIR GIRLS INC ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JACK M BARRACK HEBREW ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds T'RUAH ↗

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.

The Philadelphia Foun…The Cigna Group Found…The William Penn Foun…Chubb Charitable Foun…Business Leadership O…Central Pennsylvania …ImpactassetsincThe Nararo FoundationHenrietta Tower Wurts…Vanguard Charitable E…The Pew Charitable Tr…America's Charities
The Philadelphia FoundationPA22.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools · Central Pennsylvania Scholarship Fund · Impactassetsinc · The Nararo Foundation · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pew Charitable Trusts · America's Charities

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 Conston Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Conston Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge: 100% of income from government
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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 100 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home