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Connors Family 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.

$236k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$83k
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Religion$193kYouth Development$154kSocial Science$150kPublic Benefit$113kRecreation & Sports$112kHealth$100kEnvironment$83kHuman Services$62kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $219k
$55,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$10.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KEEP MILES CITY BEAUTIFUL$83,000
SACRED HEART$81,200
THE CONVENT KEEPERS (MILES CITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE)$55,000
WASHINGTON POLICY CENTER$15,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 45% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%KEEP MILES CITY BEAUTIFUL: $83k → 11%CALVARY CHAPEL WHITEFISH CHURCH: $10k → 11%J TECH INSTITUTE: $40k → 14%GRIND WITH A PURPOSE FOUNDATION: $9k → 16%VOICE OF MARTYRS: $1k → 14%BRITE INITIATIVE: $10k → 13%HOPE WORLDWIDE: $3k → 8%SAMBICA: $10k → 9%RUN TO WIN OUTREACH: $10k → 9%SUNSHING ENTERPRISES: $3k → 14%SACRED HEART: $81k → 11%J TECH INSTITUTE: $38k → 14%SAMBICA: $10k → 9%THE CONVENT KEEPERS (MILES CITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE): $55k → 11%J TECH INSTITUTE: $34k → 14%116 CHURCH: $1k → 9%SACRED HEART: $25k → 11%SEATTLE HUMANE: $26k → 9%MILES CITY YOUTH BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION: $13k → 11%SEATTLE HUMANE: $10k → 9%MILES CITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $8k → 11%RAINIER SCHOLARS: $5k → 9%UW ATHLETICS: $2k → 9%TELEIOS: $35k → 9%SINCERELY ROYAL FOUNDATION: $34k → 9%SINCERELY ROYAL FOUNDATION: $30k → 9%SINCERELY ROYAL FOUNDATION: $28k → 9%TELEIOS: $15k → 9%TELEIOS: $15k → 9%SINCERELY ROYAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%TELEIOS: $10k → 9%CENTERED (KAREN JOHNSON): $5k → 9%CENTERED (KAREN JOHNSON FUND): $2k → 9%DISCOVERY CENTER: $100k → 9%DISCOVERY INSTITUTE: $150k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$565k · 7 repeat orgs$468k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
15

Total granted

$565k
$328k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+21%

Still filing today

86%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Youth DevelopmentEducationCivil RightsEnvironmentAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • WP
    WASHINGTON POLICY CENTER
    4× · 2019–2025 · $113k · revenue +91%
  • JT
    J TECH INSTITUTE INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $112k · revenue +53%
  • T
    TELEIOS
    4× · 2019–2023 · $75k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • DI
    DISCOVERY INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +27%
  • DC
    DISCOVERY CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • MC
    MILES CITY YOUTH BASEBALL ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue -6%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Washington Bikes

Washington Bikes works to ensure that all who ride a bicycle in Washington have safe comfortable and convenient places to ride. Organization advocates for bicyclists rights and shapes policies.

Recreation & Sports
2
Seattle Classical Christian School

Sccs builds the city of god by forming servant leaders who love goodness, truth, and beauty.

Education
3
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
4
International Leadership Institute

The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…

Religion
5
Washington Prayer Coalition

to spread the gospel to the world by planting and serving churches, training local Christian leaders and to transform the world through prayer,

Religion
6
The Washington Bus

We empower Washington youth leaders to create sustainable, positive change through advocacy, youth voter turnout, and leadership development programs.

Civil Rights
7
Seattle Jobs Initiative

Seattle jobs initiative (sji) creates opportunities for people to support themselves and their families through living-wage careers.

Employment
8
Seattle Area Youth for Christ

Seattle Area Youth for Christ is a faith based non-profit serving under-resourced and at-risk youth through our city life clubs, our student leader mentorship program, and a variety of other programs.

Youth Development
9
Rainier Prep

Rainier prep provides public education to students in grades 5-8 in the highline area near seattle/tacoma. rainier prep seeks to prepare students for college, career readiness, and to become leaders in their communities.

Education
10
Clean Energy Transition Institute

The Clean Energy Transition Institute (CETI) is an independent, nonpartisan research and analysis nonprofit whose mission is to accelerate an equitable clean energy transition in the Northwest.

Education
11
Special Olympics Washington

Mission: to provide inclusive sports, health, and leadership programs that enable individuals with idd to develop skills, improve health, and participate fully in their communities.vision: to be the leading organization in washington state…

12
Girls on the Run Puget Sound

We inspire girls to be joyful, healthy, and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum which creatively integrates running.

Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Worldwide Ltd and the most unlike its peers is Keep Miles City Beautiful. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DISCOVERY INSTITUTE — $150,000 · OtherDISCOVERY INSTITUTESACRED HEART — $106,200 · OtherSACRED HEARTDISCOVERY CENTER — $100,000 · OtherDISCOVERY CENTERTELEIOS — $75,000 · OtherTELEIOSTHE CONVENT KEEPERS (MILES CITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE) — $55,000 · OtherTHE CONVENT KEEPERS (MILES CITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE)+10 more — $49,700 · Other+10 moreJ TECH INSTITUTE INC — $112,282 · Youth DevelopmentJ TECH INSTITUTE INCSINCERELY ROYAL FOUNDATION — $101,990 · Youth DevelopmentSINCERELY ROYAL FOUNDATIONMILES CITY YOUTH BASEBALL ASSOCIATION — $13,250 · Youth DevelopmentMILES CITY YOUTH BASEBALL …RUN TO WIN OUTREACH — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentWASHINGTON POLICY CENTER — $113,383 · Civil RightsWASHINGTON P…KEEP MILES CITY BEAUTIFUL — $83,000 · EnvironmentKEEP MILE…THE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY — $36,000 · AnimalsSammamish Bible Camp Association Inc — $20,000 · Recreation & SportsRAINIER SCHOLARS — $5,000 · EducationHOPE WORLDWIDE LTD — $2,500 · International
Other$535,900Youth Development$237,522Civil Rights$113,383Environment$83,000Animals$36,000Recreation & Sports$20,000Education$5,000International$2,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDISCOVERY INSTITUTE — $150,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWASHINGTON POLICY CENTER — $113,383 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetJ TECH INSTITUTE INC — $112,282 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetSINCERELY ROYAL FOUNDATION — $101,990 over 4y, 38% of budgetKEEP MILES CITY BEAUTIFUL — $83,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetTELEIOS — $75,000 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY — $36,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSammamish Bible Camp Association Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMILES CITY YOUTH BASEBALL ASSOCIATION — $13,250 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetRUN TO WIN OUTREACH — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetRAINIER SCHOLARS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE WORLDWIDE LTD — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 DISCOVERY INSTITUTE
  • Who funds WASHINGTON POLICY CENTER
  • Who funds J TECH INSTITUTE INC
  • Who funds SINCERELY ROYAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds KEEP MILES CITY BEAUTIFUL
  • Who funds TELEIOS
  • Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY
  • Who funds Sammamish Bible Camp Association Inc
  • Who funds MILES CITY YOUTH BASEBALL ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds RUN TO WIN OUTREACH
  • Who funds RAINIER SCHOLARS
  • Who funds HOPE WORLDWIDE LTD

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA10.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Connors 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Connors Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Connors 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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