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J-P Conte Family Foundation at a glance

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J-P Conte 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.

$5.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$11MHealth$2.6MArts & Culture$1.4MRecreation & Sports$1.2MEnvironment$630kAnimals$630kHousing & Shelter$455kInternational$305kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $112k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $760k
  • $250k+7 grants · $4.3M
$50,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$91M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOOVER INSTITUTION$1,500,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$1,000,000
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL$550,000
CPMC FOUNDATION - SUTTER HEALTH$416,667
SEO SCHOLARS SAN FRANCISCO$300,000
SAN FRANCISCO CHALLENGE - DBA AMERICA ONE$250,000
10000 DEGREES$250,000
THE BRANSON SCHOOL$200,000
NEIGHBORS FOR A BETTER SF$200,000
LATINO ACTION FOUNDATION$100,000
CHRISTIAN BROTHERS ACADEMY$100,000
PEPPERWOOD PRESERVE$60,000
UCSF FOUNDATION$50,000
ST JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH$50,000
SOMARTS$25,000
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 (FY19–24, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%AASHA FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 10%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $20k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
NY
MA
NV
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
TN
DC
LA
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 20% of J-P Conte Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

J-P Conte Family 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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 25 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
29

Total granted

$13M
$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+5%

Still filing today

56%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $237k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentOther
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

  • 1D
    10000 DEGREES
    5× · 2019–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +101%
  • TB
    THE BRANSON SCHOOL
    6× · 2019–2024 · $845k · revenue +62%
  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $750k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO SPECIAL EVENTS COMMITTEE
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue -97%
  • FT
    FUND TO CONSERVE US DIPLOMATIC TREASURES ABROAD
    one grant, 2022 · $400k · revenue -27%
  • TA
    THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue +46%
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
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
2
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
3
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
4
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
5
University of the Pacific

To provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities.

Education
6
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
8
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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9
The University Foundation At Sacramento State

Raise private resources to advance the mission and priorities of the university and serve as ambassadors in the community. provide stewardship in the prudent investment of resources and ensure the integrity of the foundation through…

Education
10
Uc Riverside Foundation

To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.

Education
11
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
12
San Jose State University Research Foundation

As an integral member of the san jose state university community, the san jose state university research foundation provides an entrepreneurial framework through which local, state and federal agencies, businesses and private foundations…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Burning Man Project; the most unlike its peers is San Francisco Challenge dba AmericaOne. 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

45 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. 45 of the 68 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
25/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL: $2,550,000 · OtherHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOLCPMC FOUNDATION - SUTTER HEALTH: $1,666,668 · OtherCPMC FOUNDATION - SUTTER HEALTHSEO SCHOLARS SAN FRANCISCO: $748,500 · OtherSEO SCHOLARS SAN FRANCISCOPHSSPCA: $539,998 · OtherPHSSPCAUS SAILING FOUNDATION: $500,000 · OtherUS SAILING FOUNDATIONCHRISTIAN BROTHERS ACADEMY: $400,000 · OtherNEIGHBORS FOR A BETTER SF: $300,000 · Other+30 more: $1,596,000 · Other+30 moreTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $2,000,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD J…10000 DEGREES: $1,200,000 · Education10000 DEGREESUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1,010,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIATHE BRANSON SCHOOL: $845,000 · EducationTHE BRANSON SCHOOLUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $750,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDAT…UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $520,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATIONThe American Lyceum: $420,000 · EducationThe American LyceumCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $370,000 · Education+4 more: $550,000 · Education+4 moreSAN FRANCISCO SPECIAL EVENTS COMMITTEE: $500,000 · Arts & CultureFUND TO CONSERVE US DIPLOMATIC TREASURES ABROAD: $400,000 · Arts & CultureSOMArts: $75,000 · Arts & CultureFlux Foundation: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $43,000 · Arts & CultureSan Francisco Challenge dba AmericaOne: $500,000 · Recreation & SportsSAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE: $150,000 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $21,500 · Recreation & SportsPEPPERWOOD FOUNDATION: $510,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $70,000 · EnvironmentTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $250,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $6,000 · PhilanthropyPAN AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $220,000 · InternationalBRAZIL FOUNDATION: $25,000 · International
Other$8,301,166Education$7,665,000Arts & Culture$1,068,000Recreation & Sports$671,500Environment$580,000Philanthropy$256,000International$245,000

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 budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $2,000,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget10000 DEGREES: $1,200,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1,010,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRANSON SCHOOL: $845,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $750,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $520,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPEPPERWOOD FOUNDATION: $510,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetSan Francisco Challenge dba AmericaOne: $500,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SPECIAL EVENTS COMMITTEE: $500,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetThe American Lyceum: $420,000 over 3y, 86% of budgetFUND TO CONSERVE US DIPLOMATIC TREASURES ABROAD: $400,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $370,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAN AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $220,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCITIZEN FILM INC: $200,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE: $150,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetYES IN MY BACK YARD: $150,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CALIFORNIA WILDLIFE CENTER: $90,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetSOMArts: $75,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES INC: $60,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE AASHA FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetSpecial Operations - Finding Kids: $50,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAKASHINGA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetFlux Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetTHE CRUCIBLE: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBURNING MAN PROJECT: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRAZIL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Rebels: $20,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACCESS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR STUDENT COMMUNICATIONINC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFive Ton Crane: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTHEATRE ASPEN: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE ROLLS ON FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAGLE ISLAND INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTeam Hydro Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRockit Live Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Jewish Community Fede…The San Francisco Fou…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…East Bay Community Fo…ImpactassetsincMarin Community Found…The William & Flora H…The Bessemer Giving F…American Endowment Fo…The Ayco Charitable F…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA21× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The San Francisco Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · East Bay Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Marin Community Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Ayco Charitable 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 J-P Conte Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from J-P Conte Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 J-P Conte Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to J-P 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 68 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home