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Conway 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $5,222 |
| THE HENRY FORD | $5,003 |
| DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND | $5,000 |
| THE PARADE COMPANY | $4,500 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,765 |
| UNICEF | $3,137 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $3,120 |
| DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS | $3,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $2,060 |
| MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION | $2,060 |
| THE JUDSON CENTER | $2,000 |
| BREM FOUNDATION TO DEFEAT BREAST CANCER | $1,055 |
| THE CHILDREN'S ROOM BOSTON | $1,033 |
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 (FY17–25, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Conway Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +39% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- DZDETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +39%
THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS9× · 2017–2025 · $22k · revenue +46%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC5× · 2020–2025 · $22k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- RMRonald McDonald House Globalgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +69%
- BHBEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue -39%
- NANATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MENTAL ILLNESSone grant, 2022 · $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.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
Handicap international dba humanity & inclusion (hi) works with people with disabilities and people living in situations of vulnerability, including poverty, exclusion, conflict, and disaster.
Delta dental fund's mission is to improve the oral health of the public and to advance dental science and the dental profession through research and education.
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
Habitat for humanity's mission is to give witness to the christian gospel by working with god's people to build decent habitats for those who are inadequately sheltered in orange county.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Forest Foundation and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee 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 42 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 12% 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.
42 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. 42 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 DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds BATH AREA FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds JUDSON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds CAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
- Who funds OPEN HANDS FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds THE PARADE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds BREM FOUNDATION TO DEFEAT BREAST CANCER ↗
- Who funds BEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds I HEART DOGS RESCUE AND ANIMAL HAVEN ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ELEPHANT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE INTERIOR DESIGNERS COALITION FOR CHANGE ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds BAY CLIFF HEALTH CAMP ↗
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 for Southeast Michigan · Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial · Others First Inc · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Consumers Energy Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust
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 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% 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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