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The Bernard F Conners 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.

$3k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
71%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 21
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$275k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 71% of the organizations The Bernard F Conners Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving4$3k25%
FY20247$19k71%
FY20237$22k86%
FY202216$30k38%
FY202121$36k71%
FY202019$19kn/a
88% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$48kEducation$28kHealth$24kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kFood & Nutrition$5kRecreation & Sports$4kCommunity Improvement$3kReligion$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
SD
IN
NJ
CA
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 25 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($48k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Bernard F Conners Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Paris Review Foundation Inc: $26,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUniversity at Albany Foundation: $21,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSt Peter's Hospital Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSt Lawrence University: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAdirondack Explorer Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Albany Academies Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Niskayuna High School Baseball: $1,100 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMohawk & Hudson River Humane Society: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlbany Institute of History and Art: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNiskayuna Athletics Booster Club Inc: $600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Authors Guild Inc: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFort Orange Club: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWikimedia Foundation Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShore Owners' Association of Lake Placid: $250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Lake George Association Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlbany Pro Musica Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShaker Road - Loudonville Fire Department Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Paul Robert Carey Foundation: $200 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAdirondack Center for Writing Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLake Placid Olympic Museum: $100 over 1y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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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.

Ge Aerospace FoundationCT16.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ge Aerospace Foundation · Keeler Motor Car Company Charitable Foundation · David & Candace Weir Foundation · Neil Jane William Estelle Golub Family Foundation Inc · Review Foundation · Adirondack Foundation · The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · The Trombly Foundation · Massry Charitable Foundation Inc · John D Picotte Family Foundation (Formerly Equinox Foundation) · Kiwi 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.

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About The Bernard F Conners Foundation

How much does The Bernard F Conners Foundation give?
The Bernard F Conners Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $3,300 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does The Bernard F Conners Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (37%), Education (21%), Health (18%).
Who are The Bernard F Conners Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Paris Review Foundation Inc ($26k), University at Albany Foundation ($21k), St Peter's Hospital Foundation Inc ($20k).
Does The Bernard F Conners Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 71% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Bernard F Conners Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Bernard F Conners Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ge Aerospace Foundation, Keeler Motor Car Company Charitable Foundation, David & Candace Weir Foundation.
Where is The Bernard F Conners Foundation based?
The Bernard F Conners Foundation is based in NY.

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 53 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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