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The Conru Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Arts & Culture$1.9MEducation$1.5MCivil Rights$1.2MEnvironment$980kCommunity Improvement$739kReligion$496kHealth$401kScience & Tech$345kOther$0
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $562k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $450k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$20,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$43M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THIRD STONE$250,000
ROSE HULMAN INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGY$200,000
WE HEART SEATTLE$150,000
WALK STRONG FOUNDATION$50,000
ARTS IMPACT$50,000
SHUNPIKE$40,000
INTIMAN THEATRE$30,000
TASVEER FILM FESTIVAL$30,000
SOCKS ON MY HANDS$30,000
PHFFFT CO INC$30,000
SEATTLE GOOD BUSINESS NETWORK$30,000
NORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM$25,000
BELONG PARTNERS$25,000
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$25,000
AMERICAN CONSERVATION COALITION$25,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $718k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%INTERNET ARCHIVE: $25k → 10%CASCADIA ART MUSEUM: $10k → 9%NATIONAL PROGRESS ALLIANCE: $300k → 5%CASCADIA ART MUSEUM: $10k → 9%NATIONAL PROGRESS ALLIANCE: $300k → 5%CASCADIA ART MUSEUM: $8k → 9%THORN: $25k → 14%GIRLS WHO CODE INC: $10k → 17%UNEXPECTED PRODUCTIONS INC: $10k → 9%SENIORS CREATING ART: $10k → 9%WELL MIND PROJECT: $10k → 9%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

AK
WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
OR
WY
IN
OH
PA
RI
CA
UT
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL

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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.3M · 59 repeat orgs$3.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

59 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
119

Total granted

$6.3M
$3.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+10%

Still filing today

86%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $248k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther

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

  • RI
    Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
    5× · 2020–2025 · $690k · revenue +63%
  • WH
    We Heart Seattle
    3× · 2023–2025 · $600k · revenue +25% · 36% of their budget
  • NP
    NATIONAL PROGRESS ALLIANCE
    2× · 2022–2023 · $600k · revenue +48% · 46% of their budget

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $250k
  • CF
    Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology
    one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue -97%
  • EP
    EMPOWERED PATHWAYS
    one grant, 2021 · $150k

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.

1
Seattle Architectural Foundation

The Seattle Architecture Foundation connects people to the architecture, design, and history of Seattle. We believe the more you engage with design, the more you feel connected to your changing city. As a volunteer driven organization, we…

Arts & Culture
2
Tacoma Art Museum

Tacoma Art Museum transforms our communities by sharing art that inspires broader perspectives and cultivates a compassionate future

Arts & Culture
3
Seattle Athenaeum

The Seattle Athenaeum connects a dynamic literary community through a curated book collection, diverse programming, and opportunities for engaging conversations and transformative ideas.

Education
4
The Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences

Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.

Education
5
Bandit Theater

A Seattle-based improv theater with the mission to foster creativity, build community, and inspire personal growth through the art of comedy.

Arts & Culture
6
Willapa Bay AiR
Arts & Culture
7
The Urbanist

Seattle-based online publication seeking to examine and influence urban policies.

Community Improvement
8
Ripple Productions

With a commitment to new and innovative storytelling, Ripple Productions seeks to push the boundaries of collaboration by integrating the performing, visual, and culinary arts.

Arts & Culture
9
San Francisco Film Society

SFFILM is a nonprofit organization whose mission ensures independent voices in film are welcomed, heard, and given the resources to thrive. SFFILM connects and inspires audiences, students and teachers, and filmmakers through our film…

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10
International Society for Arts Science and Technology Dba LeonardoISAST

The mission of the Organization is to identify new avenues to serve the art, science, and technology community. The Organization is recognized as a global leader in the interdisciplinary world of art, science, and technology. For over 50…

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11
Glasstire

Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture
12
San Francisco Camerawork Inc

SF Camerawork provokes discovery, experimentation, and exchange through exhibitions and experiences for all who value new ideas in photography.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Theatre Group and the most unlike its peers is Wikicharities. 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 Arts CentersEnvironmental Conservation …Christian Missionary Organi…Jewish Community Organizati…Local History MuseumsPolicy Research and AdvocacyYouth Development ServicesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community FoundationsLocal Food System Organizat…Dance Arts OrganizationsAnimal Rescue and ShelterLgbtq+ Community SupportCommunity College Foundatio…Community Food PantriesFood Banks and PantriesHealth Access Advocacy and …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
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 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%8%<5yr14%11%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%15%<5yr14%23%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%17%20–35yr13%12%35–55yr16%18%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 15% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.7%1/151
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,414

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

142 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. 142 of the 201 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
137/142
Grantees still filing
77/142
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology — $690,000 · OtherRose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyFOUNDATION FOR INDIV RIGHTS IN EDUCATION — $400,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR INDIV RIGHTS IN EDUCATIONST PAUL'S LUTHERAN CHURCH IN INDIANA — $330,000 · OtherST PAUL'S LUTHERAN CHURCH IN INDIANAIndividual grant recipient — $250,000 · OtherWALKING STRONG FOUNDATION — $200,000 · OtherCenter for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology — $200,000 · OtherBELONG Partners — $200,000 · Other+107 more — $2,969,794 · Other+107 moreSEATTLE THEATRE GROUP — $220,000 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE THEATRE …GAGE ACADEMY OF ART — $145,876 · Arts & CultureGAGE ACADEMY OF …ARTS IMPACT — $105,000 · Arts & CultureARTS IMPACTSHUNPIKE — $85,000 · Arts & CultureSHUNPIKENORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM — $50,000 · Arts & CulturePRATT FINE ARTS CENTER — $50,000 · Arts & CultureMOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE — $50,000 · Arts & CultureArtist Trust — $50,000 · Arts & Culture+41 more — $639,500 · Arts & Culture+41 moreAMERICAN CONSERVATION COALITION INC — $365,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN …AMERICAN LANDS PROJECT — $200,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN …METAFOUNDATION DBA POST CARBON INSTITUTE — $175,000 · EnvironmentMETAFOUND…Grist Magazine Inc — $35,000 · Environment+2 more — $20,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL PROGRESS ALLIANCE — $600,000 · Human ServicesCASCADIA ART MUSEUM — $27,500 · Human ServicesInternet Archive — $25,000 · Human ServicesTHORN — $25,000 · Human ServicesCHARITY GLOBAL INC — $25,000 · Human Services+4 more — $40,000 · Human ServicesWe Heart Seattle — $600,000 · Community ImprovementSeattle Good Business Network DBA Good Business Network of Washington — $37,500 · Community Improvement+5 more — $47,500 · Community ImprovementThird Stone — $270,000 · EducationTHE REASON FOUNDATION — $50,000 · EducationNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS INC — $35,000 · EducationCOYOTE CENTRAL — $30,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $25,000 · EducationTHE ORIGINS PROJECT FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · EducationPan Eros Foundation — $20,000 · Education+3 more — $20,000 · EducationWalk Strong Foundation — $150,000 · InternationalAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ — $100,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $75,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $25,000 · International+1 more — $10,000 · International
Other$5,239,794Arts & Culture$1,395,376Environment$795,000Human Services$742,500Community Improvement$685,000Education$475,000International$360,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetRose-Hulman Institute of Technology — $690,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWe Heart Seattle — $600,000 over 3y, 36% of budgetNATIONAL PROGRESS ALLIANCE — $600,000 over 2y, 46% of budgetAMERICAN CONSERVATION COALITION INC — $365,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetThird Stone — $270,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSEATTLE THEATRE GROUP — $220,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN LANDS PROJECT — $200,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetCenter for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology — $200,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetBELONG Partners — $200,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetMETAFOUNDATION DBA POST CARBON INSTITUTE — $175,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetWalk Strong Foundation — $150,000 over 2y, 50% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC — $150,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGAGE ACADEMY OF ART — $145,876 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY — $110,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetARTS IMPACT — $105,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetWALKING STRONG INC — $100,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHUNPIKE — $85,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH — $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRECOVERING FROM RELIGION — $55,000 over 2y, 62% of budgetALASKA ENDEAVOUR — $50,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetNORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM — $50,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE REASON FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWTIA Collaboration Institute — $50,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetBeit T'Shuvah — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPRATT FINE ARTS CENTER — $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetNorthwestern University — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Immigration Studies Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE — $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetArtist Trust — $50,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetYOUTH IN FOCUS — $40,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetTasveer — $40,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSeattle Good Business Network DBA Good Business Network of Washington — $37,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSEATTLE REPERTORY THEATER FOUNDATION — $37,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetDRUG POLICY ALLIANCE — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARTSFUND — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGrist Magazine Inc — $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCHARLES & EMMA FRYE FREE PUBLIC ART MUSEUM — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetONE REEL — $35,000 over 2y, 36% of budgetMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER — $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOYOTE CENTRAL — $30,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetTHIRD PLACE TECHNOLOGIES — $30,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetINTIMAN THEATRE — $30,000 over 1y, 1.8% 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.

ArtsfundThe Norcliffe Foundat…Seattle FoundationWyman Youth TrustRaynier Institute & F…Medina FoundationThe Satterberg Founda…Grousemont FoundationMarie Lamfrom Charita…Real Progress Foundat…M J Murdock Charitabl…The Bernstein Family …
ArtsfundWA89.1× affinity50 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Artsfund · The Norcliffe Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Wyman Youth Trust · Raynier Institute & Foundation · Medina Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Grousemont Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Real Progress Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · The Bernstein Family 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 Conru 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
34report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Conru Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Conru Foundation 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 201 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines