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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.

$48k
Granted FY2023
11
Grants FY2023
11
Organizations funded FY2023
9%
First-time grantees FY2023
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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

16
’17
16
’18
12
’19
12
’20
9
’21
9
’22
6
’23
7
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2023
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 24
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
5
Total assets, FY2023
$5k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 9% of the organizations Conway Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentHousing & ShelterCivil RightsFood & NutritionHealthEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202311$48k9%
FY202213$45k15%
FY202116$44k31%
FY202018$42k17%
FY201918$42k0%
FY201823$40k35%
FY201724$39kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$805kHuman Services$80kEducation$65kHealth$59kFood & Nutrition$44kEnvironment$41kCivil Rights$24kHousing & Shelter$22kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
MD
DC
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 29 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($158k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Conway Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGood Samaritan Family Services: $17,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union of Florida Inc: $16,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAlice Deal Community Association Inc: $12,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetIsaiah House Inc: $11,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNatural Areas Conservancy Inc: $10,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFood & Friends Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Conservancy of Southwest Florida: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Promise of Essex County Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCasa for Children of Essex County Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetInterfaith Food Pantry of the Oranges: $6,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetThe District of Columbia Children's Advocacy Center: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Good Dog Foundation Inc: $5,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetLittle Traverse Conservancy Inc: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTakoma Childrens School Inc: $5,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLafayette Home and School Association of: $5,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union of Michigan: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFamily Promise of Grand Rapids: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMeeting Essential Needs With Dignityinc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Park Conservancy Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHuman Rights Campaign Inc: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEqual Justice Under Law: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNature Forward: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBergmann Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCapital Area Food Bank Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIn Christy's Shoes Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRock Creek Conservancy Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Carter Center Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 28.

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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.

Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ14× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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Find your warmest path to Conway 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.

About Conway Family Foundation

How much does Conway Family Foundation give?
Conway Family Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $48,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Conway Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (70%), Human Services (7%), Education (6%).
Who are Conway Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Regents of the University of Michigan ($32k), Good Samaritan Family Services ($18k), American Civil Liberties Union of Florida Inc ($17k).
Does Conway Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Conway Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Conway Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of New Jersey, Consumers Energy Foundation, Open Society Institute.
Where is Conway Family Foundation based?
Conway Family Foundation is based in FL.

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 48 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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