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Ray & Vera Conniff Foundation 51645983

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.

$788k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$166k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$1.1MAnimals$206kRecreation & Sports$200kEnvironment$150kHuman Services$142kHealth$124kEducation$95kReligion$65kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $215k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $536k
$25,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC UNIVERSITY OF$166,000
GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOO ASSOCIATION$90,000
MAKE LIFE SKATE LIFE$80,000
HERBIE HANCOCK INSTITUTE OF JAZZ$50,000
KAUFMAN MUSIC CENTER$50,000
GRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION$50,000
MANA MAOLI$50,000
ORDINARY HERO FOUNDATION$40,000
AMERICAN BATTLEFIELD TRUST$40,000
SMITHSONIAN MASTER JAZZ ORCHESTRA$40,000
MUSICARES FOUNDATION$30,000
KAHAKUKAHI FOUNDATION$25,000
KA HALE A KE OLA HOMELESS RESOURCE CTR$20,000
ONE LOVE SKATE$10,000
NASHVILLE JAZZ WORKSHOP$10,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ATTLEBORO ARTS MUSEUM: $6k → 11%SKATEBOARD USA: $10k → 10%GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOO ASSOCIATION: $90k → 14%ONE LOVE SKATE: $10k → 9%MANA MAOLI: $50k → 9%EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC UNIVERSITY OF: $166k → 14%ALOHAGAPE AINA: $18k → 17%AMERICAN BATTLEFIELD TRUST: $40k → 14%NASHVILLE JAZZ WORKSHOP: $15k → 14%MAKE LIFE SKATE LIFE: $80k → 7%RENAISSANCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $50k → 16%NORTHWEST FILM FORUM: $100k → 9%AUTISM SPEAKS: $8k → 5%FRIENDS OF LEVITT SHELL SIOUX FALLS INC: $25k → 9%ATTLEBORO ARTS MUSEUM: $6k → 11%GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOO ASSOCIATION: $59k → 14%AMERICAN BATTLEFIELD TRUST: $40k → 14%NASHVILLE JAZZ WORKSHOP: $15k → 14%MAKE LIFE SKATE LIFE: $80k → 7%GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOO ASSOCIATION: $50k → 14%POSITIVELY KAI FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%KAUFMAN MUSIC CENTER: $50k → 17%AMERICAN BATTLEFIELD TRUST: $40k → 14%NASHVILLE JAZZ WORKSHOP: $10k → 14%MAKE LIFE SKATE LIFE: $40k → 7%AMERICAN BATTLEFIELD TRUST: $10k → 14%KAUFMAN MUSIC CENTER: $50k → 17%SMITHSONIAN MASTER JAZZ ORCHESTRA: $40k → 14%KA HALE A KE OLA HOMELESS RESOURCE CTR: $20k → 9%SMITHSONIAN MASTER JAZZ ORCHESTRA: $35k → 14%KA HALE A KE OLA HOMELESS RESOURCE CTR: $15k → 9%HERBIE HANCOCK INSTITUTE OF JAZZ: $50k → 14%KA HALE A KE OLA HOMELESS RESOURCE CTR: $10k → 9%HERBIE HANCOCK INSTITUTE OF JAZZ: $50k → 14%KA HALE A KE OLA HOMELESS RESOURCE CTR: $10k → 9%HERBIE HANCOCK INSTITUTE OF JAZZ: $50k → 14%MANA MENTORS: $100k → 9%GRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%MANA MENTORS: $50k → 9%GRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%KAHAKUKAHI FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%MUSICARES FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%KAHAKUKAHI FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%MUSICARES FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%HARVEST KUMALANI MAUI: $20k → 9%MUSICARES FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%MUSICARES FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%MUSICARES FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 27 repeat orgs$529k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
21

Total granted

$1.7M
$313k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+43%

Still filing today

93%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $216k 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
Arts & CultureHealthAnimalsEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther

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

  • GL
    GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $199k · revenue +5%
  • HH
    HERBIE HANCOCK INSTITUTE OF JAZZ
    3× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +49%
  • AB
    American Battlefield Trust
    5× · 2020–2024 · $131k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • NF
    NORTHWEST FILM FORUM
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +7%
  • PK
    POSITIVELY KAI FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • SJ
    SMITHSONIAN JAZZ MASTERWORKS ORCHESTRA
    one grant, 2023 · $40k

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.

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Hawaii Book and Music Festival
Arts & Culture
2
Music Institute of Chicago

The music institute of chicago ("music institute") leads people toward a lifelong engagement with music, by providing widely accessible resources for high quality music teaching, performing, and service activities.

Arts & Culture
3
International Committee of Artists for Peace

The primary purposes of the organization are to:1. acknowledge and celebrate excellence in the performing arts that promotes peace;2. provide humanistic peace and nonviolence education for youth through dialogue and the performing arts;3.…

International
4
Artists and Musicians in Recovery
Education
5
San Francisco Jazz Organization

The san francisco jazz organization (the organization) is a recognized international leader in jazz creation, presentation, and education. the organization explores the full spectrum of jazz, from the music's origins in the african…

Arts & Culture
6
Ojai Festivals Ltd

The ojai music festival serves as a creative music laboratory for pioneering new works,championing adventurous programming, and working with today's emerging artists with events during the year and the ojai music festival serves as a…

Arts & Culture
7
Latin Grammy Cultural Foundation

The latin grammy cultural foundation, through scholarships, fellowships, grants and education programs, furthers international awareness and appreciation of the significant contributions of latin music and its makers to the world's culture.

Arts & Culture
8
Pacific Bridge Arts Foundation

The Foundation works throughout the year to provide educational arts and culture workshops, mentorship for rising community leaders, grants for independent artists, and award honoree ceremony.

Human Services
9
American Composers Forum

To advocate for and support living composers

Arts & Culture
10
Maraschino Music
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Soundexchange Inc

Soundexchange is the premier music tech organization on a mission to power the (see schedule o)

Community Improvement
12
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc

The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mana Mentor 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsYouth Sports ProgramsYouth Development ServicesLocal History MuseumsAnimal Rescue and ShelterSchool District FoundationsCancer Support ServicesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%39%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr16%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%8%<5yr14%15%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr16%25%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/41
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,524

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.

04the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 51 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/41
Grantees still filing
29/41
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HERBIE HANCOCK INSTITUTE OF JAZZ — $150,000 · Arts & CultureHERBIE HANCOCK INSTITUTE OF JAZZAmerican Battlefield Trust — $131,000 · Arts & CultureAmerican Battlefield TrustMUSICARES FOUNDATION INC — $120,000 · Arts & CultureMUSICARES FOUNDATION INCNORTHWEST FILM FORUM — $100,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHWEST FILM FORUMELAINE KAUFMAN CULTURAL CENTER LUCY MOSES SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND DANCE — $100,000 · Arts & CultureELAINE KAUFMAN CULTURAL CENTER LUCY MO…GRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureGRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INCNashville Jazz Workshop — $40,000 · Arts & CultureATTLEBORO MUSEUM INC — $27,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $13,500 · Arts & CultureEASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC UNIVERSITY OF — $166,000 · OtherEASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC UNIVERSITY…SMITHSONIAN MASTER JAZZ ORCHESTRA — $75,000 · OtherSMITHSONIAN MASTER JAZZ ORCHESTRAKA HALE A KE OLA HOMELESS RESOURCE CENTERS INC — $55,000 · OtherKA HALE A KE OLA HOMELESS RESOURCE…KAHAKUKAHI FOUNDATION — $50,000 · OtherKAHAKUKAHI FOUNDATIONSMITHSONIAN JAZZ MASTERWORKS ORCHESTRA — $40,000 · OtherSMITHSONIAN JAZZ MASTERWORKS ORCHE…MANA MAOLI — $50,000 · OtherMANA MAOLIFRIENDS OF LEVITT SHELL SIOUX FALLS — $25,000 · OtherPOSITIVELY KAI FOUNDATION — $50,000 · OtherPOSITIVELY KAI FOUNDATIONRenaissance Charitable Foundation Inc — $50,000 · OtherRenaissance Charitable Foundation …+14 more — $143,000 · Other+14 moreGREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION — $199,000 · AnimalsGREATER LO…+3 more — $4,500 · AnimalsMAKE LIFE SKATE LIFE — $200,000 · InternationalMAKE LIFE…MANA MENTOR INC — $150,000 · EnvironmentORDINARY HERO FOUNDATION INC — $130,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $12,000 · Human ServicesChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $30,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $30,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $29,000 · HealthRoad Recovery Foundation Inc — $10,000 · HealthPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC — $8,000 · HealthAUTISM SPEAKS INC — $7,500 · Health+2 more — $4,500 · Health
Arts & Culture$781,500Other$704,000Animals$203,500International$200,000Environment$150,000Human Services$142,000Health$119,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMAKE LIFE SKATE LIFE — $200,000 over 3y, 46% of budgetGREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION — $199,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHERBIE HANCOCK INSTITUTE OF JAZZ — $150,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetMANA MENTOR INC — $150,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetAmerican Battlefield Trust — $131,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetORDINARY HERO FOUNDATION INC — $130,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetMUSICARES FOUNDATION INC — $120,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHWEST FILM FORUM — $100,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetELAINE KAUFMAN CULTURAL CENTER LUCY MOSES SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND DANCE — $100,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKA HALE A KE OLA HOMELESS RESOURCE CENTERS INC — $55,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPOSITIVELY KAI FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetRenaissance Charitable Foundation Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANA MAOLI — $50,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetNashville Jazz Workshop — $40,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $29,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetATTLEBORO MUSEUM INC — $27,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF LEVITT SHELL SIOUX FALLS — $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetATTLEBORO SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION I — $18,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetAttleboro Music Parents Association — $18,000 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC — $16,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetONE LOVE SKATE — $14,500 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPA'IA YOUTH COUNCIL INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetRoad Recovery Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC — $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJazz Foundation of America Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FESTIVAL AND FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUNGRY FOR MUSIC — $4,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetACM LIFTING LIVES — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE KAUAI MUSIC FESTIVAL — $2,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetParkinsons Community Los Angeles — $2,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSICIANS ON CALL INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOVE HOPE STRENGTH FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCANINES FOR DISABLED KIDS INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION — $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.

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.

Gibson Gives Foundati…The Community Foundat…Charities Aid Foundat…Raymond James Charita…Morgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Gibson Gives Foundation Dba Gibson GivesTN13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gibson Gives Foundation Dba Gibson Gives · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Ray & Vera Conniff Foundation 51645983 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Attleboro Museum Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
7report 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

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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How do I get to Ray & Vera Conniff Foundation 51645983?

Find your warmest path to Ray & Vera Conniff Foundation 51645983 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 51 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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