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Conway 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
94% of Conway Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 7 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Conway Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $48k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k10 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LITTLE SISTERS OF THE ASSUMPTION | $20,000 |
| ASCENSION FOOD PANTRY | $4,000 |
| ALICE DEAL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION (ADCA) | $4,000 |
| ISAIAH HOUSE | $3,500 |
| MEETING ESSENTIAL NEEDS WITH DIGNITY NJ (MEND) | $3,500 |
| NATURAL AREAS CONSERVANCY | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN FAMILY SERVICES | $2,500 |
| UNITARIAN CONGREGATION OF GREATER NAPLES | $2,000 |
| FOOD AND FRIENDS | $2,000 |
| SAFE SHORES | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +74% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2023, 22 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
- GSGOOD SAMARITAN FAMILY SERVICES8× · 2017–2024 · $18k · revenue +19%
- ACAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF FLORIDA INC5× · 2017–2022 · $17k · revenue +21%
- ADAlice Deal Community Association Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $12k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- LHLafayette Home and School Association ofgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +160%
- VCVASSAR COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2017 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Organization's mission to improve health outcomes for children; be a leader in creating innovative solutions to pediatric healthcare problems; and excel in care, advocacy, research. as the nation's children's hospital, the mission of…
Cultivating inclusive communities through relationships, innovation and high-quality services.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Preservation of civil liberties through advocacy and lobbying.
Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Greater newark conservancy is a new jersey not-for-profit organization that expands access to healthy food, environmental education, and green spaces. we provide hands-on community programs that cultivate sustainability, inspire action,…
Children's rights is a national advocacy organization that investigates, exposes, and combats violations of the rights of children. through strategic advocacy and civil rights impact litigation, children's rights holds governments…
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
Our mission is to train and supervise community volunteers appointed by the family court to advocate for the best interests of children who have been removed from their homes due to abuse and/or neglect. our dedicated volunteers strive to…
Cfr's mission is to defend the rights of parents and youth through free, holistic interdisciplinary legal and social work representation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Equal Justice Under Law and the most unlike its peers is In Christy's Shoes Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 48 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Alice Deal Community Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ISAIAH HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL AREAS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD & FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY OF THE ORANGES ↗
- Who funds CASA FOR CHILDREN OF ESSEX COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF ESSEX COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD DOG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Little Traverse Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lafayette Home and School Association of ↗
- Who funds Takoma Childrens School Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GRAND RAPIDS ↗
- Who funds MEETING ESSENTIAL NEEDS WITH DIGNITYINC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC ↗
- Who funds Nature Forward ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW ↗
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: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Consumers Energy Foundation · Open Society Institute · The Chicago Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Conway 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.
- Rock Creek Conservancy Inc — 60% of income from government
- Family Promise of Essex County Inc — 33% of income from government
- Nature Forward — 32% of income from government
- Isaiah House Inc — 21% 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.
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