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Conte Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$108k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Health$167kPublic Safety & Disaster$36kYouth Development$21kReligion$20kRecreation & Sports$18kHuman Services$10k
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $63k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Robert Conte Foundations for PD$30,000
Helping Hand Home for Children$12,000
Univ Texas Elementary Charter Sch$10,800
The Kinkaid School$10,000
Brain Injury Foundation of St Louis$8,000
Ozark Teen Challenge$6,000
South Brazos Voulnteer Fire Dept$5,000
Texas A M University$5,000
Episcopal Church of Good Shephard$5,000
PMan Foundation$5,000
Shepherd Them All Inc$5,000
St Anthony Catholic Church$5,000
Midway Church of Christ$1,000
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 (FY24–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Helping Hand Home for Children: $12k → 10%Helping Hand Home for Children: $5k → 10%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.
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$316k · 13 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
6

Total granted

$316k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+11%

Still filing today

54%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsHealthHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitOther
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

  • HH
    HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $17k · revenue +6%
  • SC
    STONEY CREEK FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +22%
  • BF
    BOXING FOR BATTLE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +472%

Funded once

  • PI
    PARAQUAD INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -3%
  • SJ
    St John Vianney Church
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • BC
    BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -5%
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
Sunny Glen Children's Home Inc

Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and academically.

Human Services
2
Texas Back Institute Research Foundation
Health
3
Hendrick Home for Children
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4
Texas Intensity Softball Inc

Texas Intensity Softball provides local youth with the opportunity to train and compete year-round at a higher level.

Recreation & Sports
5
Texas Robotics Alliance
—
6
Special Abilities of North Texas Inc

To provide the highest quality care, training and support to adults with special needs, giving them opportunities to succeed in life.

Human Services
7
Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children

To provide the highest quality care to improve the lives of children with orthopedic and related conditions and specific learning disabilities. texas scottish rite hospital for children focuses on patient care, research and education.

Health
8
Trinity Athletics

To use functional fitness to raise a generation of Servant Leaders in North Texas

Youth Development
9
Johns Texas Youth Rescue
Housing & Shelter
10
Young Texans Against Cancer

Young texans against cancer (ytac) is an independent, nonprofit organization comprised of men and women who have been affected by cancer or are seeking to become more actively involved in the cancer community. our organization is focused…

—
11
Texas Rescue Inc
Animals
12
Tex-E Inc
Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helping Hand Home for Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is South Brazos County Fire Department. 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

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 24 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Robert Conte Foundations for PD: $139,000 · OtherRobert Conte Foundations for PDOZARKS TEEN CHALLENGE: $22,500 · OtherOZARKS TEEN CHALLENGEP-MAN FOUNDATION: $16,500 · OtherP-MAN FOUNDATIONEpiscopal Church of Good Shephard: $15,000 · OtherEpiscopal Church of Good ShephardTexas A-M University: $13,772 · OtherTexas A-M UniversityUniv Texas Elementary Charter Sch: $10,800 · OtherPARAQUAD INC: $10,000 · OtherST ANTHONY CATHOLIC CHURCH: $10,000 · Other+4 more: $13,500 · Other+4 moreSOUTH BRAZOS COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT: $35,626 · Public Safety & DisasterSOUTH BRAZ…THE BRAIN INJURY FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS: $18,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,000 · HealthHELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $17,000 · Human ServicesThe MISS Foundation Mothers in Sympathy & Support: $4,500 · Human ServicesThe Kinkaid School Inc: $10,000 · EducationSHEPHERD THEM ALL INC: $5,000 · EducationTEXAS YOUTH RANCH RODEO ASSOCIATION: $4,900 · Recreation & SportsHouston Golf Association Youth Program Inc dba First Tee of Greater Houston: $4,000 · Recreation & SportsTEXAS YOUTH RODEO ASSOCIATION: $3,230 · Recreation & SportsSTONEY CREEK FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOXING FOR BATTLE INC: $10,000 · Public Benefit
Other$251,072Public Safety & Disaster$35,626Health$23,000Human Services$21,500Education$15,000Recreation & Sports$12,130Youth Development$10,000Public Benefit$10,000

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 budgetSOUTH BRAZOS COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT: $35,626 over 2y, 28% of budgetOZARKS TEEN CHALLENGE: $22,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTHE BRAIN INJURY FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS: $18,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetHELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $17,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTONEY CREEK FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPARAQUAD INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Kinkaid School Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOXING FOR BATTLE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHEPHERD THEM ALL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetThe MISS Foundation Mothers in Sympathy & Support: $4,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHouston Golf Association Youth Program Inc dba First Tee of Greater Houston: $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTEXAS YOUTH RODEO ASSOCIATION: $3,230 over 2y, 0.4% 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.

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 Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC6.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Conte Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Conte Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 24 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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