Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Conestoga Road 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.
- $613k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 50
- Grants FY2025
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $85,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 50
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations The Conestoga Road Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 50 | $613k | 16% |
| FY2024 | 49 | $469k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 50 | $390k | 12% |
| FY2022 | 44 | $409k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $400k | 16% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $290k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 47 | $300k | 51% |
| FY2017 | 35 | $380k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fairfield University | $255,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Catholic University of America | $160,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Children's Aid and Family Services Inc | $155,000 | 7 | 0% |
| St Josephs Preparatory School | $130,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Occidental College | $115,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Georgetown University | $90,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Washington College | $75,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Church of St Ignatius Loyola | $61,700 | 8 | n/a |
| Radnor High School Scholarship Fund | $55,000 | 1 | 18% |
| Street 2 Street | $35,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 63 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Conestoga Road Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Philadelphia Foundation · Verizon Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
How this is measured
About The Conestoga Road Foundation
- How much does The Conestoga Road Foundation give?
- The Conestoga Road Foundation reported 50 grants totaling $613,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 50 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Conestoga Road Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (57%), International (9%), Human Services (7%).
- Who are The Conestoga Road Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Fairfield University ($255k), The Catholic University of America ($160k), Children's Aid and Family Services Inc ($155k).
- Does The Conestoga Road Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Conestoga Road 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 Conestoga Road Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Chubb Charitable Foundation, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Conestoga Road Foundation based?
- The Conestoga Road Foundation is based in PA.
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