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The Coneway 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $111k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| South Main Baptist Church | $111,000 |
| MD Anderson Cancer Center | $35,000 |
| Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation | $30,000 |
| Episcopal High School | $20,000 |
| Houston Symphony Society | $20,000 |
| Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival | $20,000 |
| The Museum of Fine Arts Houston | $15,000 |
| Georgia O'Keefe Museum | $10,000 |
| Santa Fe Opera | $5,000 |
| Houston Museum of Natural Science | $5,000 |
| The Shepherd School of Music | $5,000 |
| Houston Food Bank | $5,000 |
| River Oaks Baptist School | $5,000 |
| Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston | $2,500 |
| Communities in School Houston | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BBBARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $138k · revenue +40%
- SFSANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL LTD8× · 2017–2024 · $107k · revenue +32%
- HSHouston Symphony Society8× · 2017–2024 · $100k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- MFMenil Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +51%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +33%
- HBHouston Botanic Gardenone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +15%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
CAMH presents extraordinary and thought-provoking arts programming and exhibitions.
The Health Museum is an innovative science center that provides an interactive and entertaining experience for all ages, promotes understanding and appreciation of the human body, mind, and spirit, and inspires a lifelong commitment to…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Harmonia Stellarum is an ensemble of professional vocalists and instrumentalists specialized in historically informed performance practice who seek to inspire, entertain, and enlighten audiences with meaningful, historically informed…
The mission of the institute has remained constant since its founding in 1953. as its restated articles of incorporation state the primary purpose and objective of the howard hughes medical institute shall be the promotion of human…
The mission of HGO is to enrich our diverse community through the art of opera. We will do so by creating, curating, exploring, and producing outstanding experiences centered around the human voice.(Continued on Schedule O)
The mission of the Houston Academy of Medicine is to support the community service, education, scientific, and charitable programs for physicians, their patients, and the community at large in Harris County.
Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…
To provide high quality, cost-effective health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve in a spiritual environment of caring in association with internationally recognized teaching and research.
Across the fields of performing arts, visual arts, education and outreach, business & policy, astc provides insight, generates ideas, and promotes collaboration to address present challenges and create a shared future. astc operates as a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Methodist Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Grand Teton National Park Foundation. 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.
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 41 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
51 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. 51 of the 78 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL LTD ↗
- Who funds Menil Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Houston Symphony Society ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
- Who funds Open Door Mission ↗
- Who funds GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds Texas Heart Institute ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds THE SANTA FE OPERA ↗
- Who funds POINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Houston Public Media Foundation ↗
- Who funds TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds CHAMBER MUSIC HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds Bo's Place ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Houston Botanic Garden ↗
- Who funds Camp Aranzazu Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Strake Foundation · Marek Family Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation · John P McGovern Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Mechia Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · The John M O'Quinn 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 The Coneway 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.
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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