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The Connfertitta Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The Connfertitta Charitable 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.

$50k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$195kReligion$89kArts & Culture$54kHuman Services$35kEnvironment$23kRecreation & Sports$20kEducation$18kPublic Safety & Disaster$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
$3,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$885k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JULIE ROGERS GIFT OF LIFE$14,500
TRINITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$13,488
ST ANNE CATHOLIC CHURCH$8,852
CHRISTUS HEALTH FOUNDATION OF SETX$5,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$3,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHEAST TEX$2,500
FREEDOM POINT$1,000
ST JUDE THADDEUS CATHOLIC CHURCH$1,000
BUILD INC (BEAUMONT URBAN IMPROVEM)$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHEAST TEX: $5k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHEAST TEX: $5k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHEAST TEX: $3k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHEAST TEX: $3k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHEAST TEX: $3k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHEAST TEX: $3k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHEAST TEX: $3k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHEAST TEX: $3k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHEAST TEX: $3k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHEAST TEX: $2k → 19%SOME OTHER PLACE: $3k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$439k · 22 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
24

Total granted

$439k
$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+11%

Still filing today

32%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • JR
    Julie Rogers Gift of Life Program
    9× · 2017–2025 · $47k · revenue +63%
  • CC
    Catholic Charities of Southeast Texas
    9× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +166%
  • NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2019–2024 · $22k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • TP
    TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE
    one grant, 2018 · $4k
  • BC
    Beaumont Community Players Inc dba Southeast Texas Stages
    one grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +0%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc

The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.

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2
Baylor Health Care System Foundation

To foster and support the activities and purposes of Baylor Scott & White Health, to encourage broad-based public support of the health care system and its affiliated institutions, and to advance the medical objectives, including…

Health
3
The Women's Resource of Greater Houston

See Schedule OThe Women's Resource of Greater Houston helps women and girls make choices toward becoming independent, productive, and financially stable. We fulfill our mission by recruiting volunteer instructors to deliver our programs in…

Philanthropy
4
Aclu Foundation of Texas Inc

The ACLU Foundation of Texas is the unyielding guardian and promoter of freedom, justice, equality and dignity of all people, particularly for those who are still fighting to secure the full exercise of their civil rights and liberties.…

Civil Rights
5
Texas Water Foundation

Texas water foundation is a statewide nonprofit that provides educational resources and educational services on water in texas for decision makers, water professionals, and everyday texans. texas water foundation works in the areas of…

Environment
6
Texas Trust Gives
Philanthropy
7
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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8
Big Thicket Natural Heritage Trust

We acquire properties to be donated to the National Park Service and state entities and advocate for protection of Big Thicket natural resources.

Environment
9
Texas Bar Foundation

The Foundation solicits charitable contributions and provides funding to enhance the rule of law and the system of justice in Texas, especially for programs that relate to the administration of justice; ethics in the legal profession;…

Crime & Legal
10
Good Samaritan Foundation of Texas Inc

Good Samaritan Foundation (GSF) is a fundraising and grant-making organization dedicated solely to Texas nursing. Its mission is to increase the number of nurses dedicated to clinical care and to improve the quality of nurse education and…

Education
11
Texas Cultural Trust Council

Public arts funding

Philanthropy
12
Texas a&M Research Foundation

To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The 100 Club Inc; the most unlike its peers is Christ in Her. 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

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 49 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHRISTUS HEALTH FOUNDATION OF SETX: $77,000 · OtherCHRISTUS HEALTH FOUNDATION OF SETXTRINITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $54,488 · OtherTRINITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCHLAMAR UNIVERSITY: $35,250 · OtherLAMAR UNIVERSITYCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $34,175 · OtherCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATIONALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $32,333 · OtherALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATIONST ANNE CATHOLIC CHURCH: $19,852 · OtherST ANNE CATHOLIC CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherST JUDE THADDEUS CATHOLIC CHURCH: $13,081 · Other+28 more: $50,637 · Other+28 moreJulie Rogers Gift of Life Program: $46,500 · HealthJulie Rogers…REEL RECOVERY INC: $5,000 · HealthREEL RECOVER…+1 more: $500 · HealthCatholic Charities of Southeast Texas: $29,000 · Human ServicesTHE KELLY GIBSON FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Human ServicesSome Other Place: $2,500 · Human ServicesNECHES RIVER FESTIVAL INC: $18,975 · Arts & CultureBeaumont Community Players Inc dba Southeast Texas Stages: $3,500 · Arts & CultureBEAUMONT ART LEAGUE: $1,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $22,000 · EnvironmentLamar University Foundation Inc: $11,000 · EducationTexas A&M Foundation: $1,000 · EducationJUNIOR LEAGUE OF BEAUMONT INC: $3,000 · Community Improvement
Other$331,816Health$52,000Human Services$34,500Arts & Culture$23,475Environment$22,000Education$12,000Community Improvement$3,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJulie Rogers Gift of Life Program: $46,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetCatholic Charities of Southeast Texas: $29,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNECHES RIVER FESTIVAL INC: $18,975 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetLamar University Foundation Inc: $11,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetREEL RECOVERY INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE KELLY GIBSON FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF BEAUMONT INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSome Other Place: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHRIST IN HER: $1,500 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetBig Thicket Association: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE 100 CLUB INC: $835 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CITIZENS TEXAS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCaringBridge: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Julie Rogers Gift of Life Program ↗
  • Who funds Catholic Charities of Southeast Texas ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds NECHES RIVER FESTIVAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Lamar University Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds REEL RECOVERY INC ↗
  • Who funds Beaumont Community Players Inc dba Southeast Texas Stages ↗
  • Who funds THE KELLY GIBSON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF BEAUMONT INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Some Other Place ↗
  • Who funds CHRIST IN HER ↗
  • Who funds BEAUMONT ART LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds Big Thicket Association ↗
  • Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE 100 CLUB INC ↗

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.

Mechia FoundationGay D and William F S…Juanita Parker Corbin…The Reaud Charitable …He and Kate Dishman C…Mamie McFaddin Ward H…Greater Houston Commu…Thomas Joseph Frank F…The Morgan Charitable…The Edaren FoundationSidney and Charline D…Christus Health South…
Mechia FoundationTX24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mechia Foundation · Gay D and William F Scott Family Foundation · Juanita Parker Corbin Charitable Tr Charitable Trust · The Reaud Charitable Foundation Inc · He and Kate Dishman Charitable Trust · Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Thomas Joseph Frank Foundation · The Morgan Charitable Foundation · The Edaren Foundation · Sidney and Charline Dauphin Foundation · Christus Health Southeast Texas

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Connfertitta Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Connfertitta Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 49 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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