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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.

$53k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$5k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$54kArts & Culture$53kHealth$52kAnimals$30kPublic Safety & Disaster$22kHousing & Shelter$19kInternational$19kFood & Nutrition$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,120
Median grant
8
States reached
$433k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$5,222
THE HENRY FORD$5,003
LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND$5,000
DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$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
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BATH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $2k → 9%BATH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $2k → 9%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 8%BATH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $2k → 9%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 8%BATH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $1k → 9%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 8%BATH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $1k → 9%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 8%BATH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $1k → 9%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 8%BATH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $1k → 9%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 8%BATH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $1k → 9%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 8%DUTTON FARM INC: $513 → 8%OPEN HANDS FOOD PANTRY: $2k → 8%OPEN HANDS FOOD PANTRY: $1k → 8%OPEN HANDS FOOD PANTRY: $1k → 8%OPEN HANDS FOOD PANTRY: $1k → 8%LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $2k → 8%LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $1k → 8%LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $1k → 8%LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $1k → 8%THE JUDSON CENTER: $2k → 8%THE JUDSON CENTER: $2k → 8%THE JUDSON CENTER: $2k → 8%THE JUDSON CENTER: $2k → 8%THE JUDSON CENTER: $500 → 8%HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC: $2k → 8%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

ME
MT
IL
MI
NY
MA
CT
CA
VA
MD
TN
DC
HI
GA
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of Conway Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Conway Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$236k · 20 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
22

Total granted

$236k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+46%

Still filing today

80%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsInternationalRecreation & SportsFood & 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

  • DZ
    DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +39%
  • THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $22k · revenue +46%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $22k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • RM
    Ronald McDonald House Globalgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +69%
  • BH
    BEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue -39%
  • NA
    NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MENTAL ILLNESS
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
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 Water Research Foundation

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…

Environment
2
Marin Humane Society

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.

Animals
3
Health Care Without Harm

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…

Environment
4
Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals
5
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

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

International
6
Food & Water Watch

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…

Food & Nutrition
7
Handicap International

Handicap international dba humanity & inclusion (hi) works with people with disabilities and people living in situations of vulnerability, including poverty, exclusion, conflict, and disaster.

International
8
Delta Dental Fund

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.

—
9
Worldwide Vets Incorporated

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,…

Animals
10
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
11
Habitat for Humanity of Orange County Inc

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.

—
12
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Forest Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 48 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
35/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE HENRY FORD: $30,012 · OtherTHE HENRY FORDHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $9,240 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCIndividual grant recipient: $8,915 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE CHILDREN'S ROOM BOSTON: $6,182 · OtherTHE CHILDREN'S ROOM BOSTONTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $3,090 · OtherCAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC: $6,000 · OtherCAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INCHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,000 · OtherFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $3,103 · Other+12 more: $13,275 · Other+12 moreST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $19,610 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S R…ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $9,255 · HealthALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATI…THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $8,240 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FO…Ronald McDonald House Global: $5,000 · HealthRonald McDonald Hous…BREM FOUNDATION TO DEFEAT BREAST CANCER: $4,167 · HealthBREM FOUNDATION TO D…BEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $3,500 · HealthBEAUMONT HEALTH FOUN…+2 more: $1,500 · HealthLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $16,315 · Human ServicesLEADER DOGS FOR THE…BATH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $10,425 · Human ServicesBATH AREA FAMILY YM…JUDSON CENTER INC: $8,500 · Human ServicesJUDSON CENTER INCLIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $5,000 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLA…OPEN HANDS FOOD PANTRY: $4,572 · Human ServicesOPEN HANDS FOOD PAN…+2 more: $2,013 · Human ServicesWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $21,945 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KI…UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $16,637 · InternationalUNITED STATES FU…+2 more: $1,515 · InternationalDETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $22,553 · AnimalsDETROIT ZOOL…I HEART DOGS RESCUE AND ANIMAL HAVEN: $3,042 · AnimalsI HEART DOGS…INTERNATIONAL ELEPHANT FOUNDATION: $2,060 · AnimalsINTERNATIONA…HOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,000 · Animals+2 more: $1,000 · AnimalsTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $22,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PARADE COMPANY: $4,500 · Recreation & SportsNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION: $1,890 · Recreation & Sports
Other$82,817Health$51,272Human Services$46,825International$40,097Animals$29,655Arts & Culture$22,000Recreation & Sports$6,390

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 budgetDETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $22,553 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $22,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $21,945 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $19,610 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $16,637 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $16,315 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBATH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $10,425 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $9,255 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJUDSON CENTER INC: $8,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $8,240 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $5,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetOPEN HANDS FOOD PANTRY: $4,572 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTHE PARADE COMPANY: $4,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBREM FOUNDATION TO DEFEAT BREAST CANCER: $4,167 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $3,103 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $3,090 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetI HEART DOGS RESCUE AND ANIMAL HAVEN: $3,042 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ELEPHANT FOUNDATION: $2,060 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION: $1,890 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $1,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $1,008 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP: $517 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $515 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUTTON FARM: $513 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDANNY & RONS RESCUE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $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.

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 …Phillip and Elizabeth…Others First IncUnited Way for Southe…Consumers Energy Foun…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Paypal Charitable Giv…Charities Aid Foundat…Raymond James Charita…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI15.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.
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How do I get to Conway Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Conway 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 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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