How much did THE CONRU FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of THE CONRU FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

mediascholarsrights

2020

religion

2021

childrenfoodrights

2022

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2023

art museumfine artslutheran church

2024

dancejewishprintproductionsplacereduce hungernorthwest

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 92 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k25 grants · $118k
$10k–50k53 grants · $840k
$50k–250k12 grants · $815k
$250k+2 grants · $600k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$43M

Total assets

Largest grants

WE HEART SEATTLE$350,000
ROSE-HULMAN IT$250,000
FEEDING AMERICA (REDUCE HUNGER)$150,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY$100,000
WALK STRONG FOUNDATION$100,000
QUEEN ANNE LUTHERAN CHURCH$65,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION AND ENDOWMENT FUND$50,000
AMERICAN CONSERVATION COALITION$50,000
BELONG PARTNERS$50,000
BRAVER ANGELS (REDUCE POLARIZATION)$50,000
BEIT TSHUVAHS$50,000
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$50,000
ARTS IMPACT$50,000
FOOD FINDERS (REDUCE HUNGER)$50,000
ONE REEL$30,000

02The need

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 (FY19–24, $698k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6% — the area typically sits at 9%. 9% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$5.0M · 49 repeat orgs$3.4M to everyone else

49 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 65 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.0M

$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

+51%

Still filing today

73%

66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

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

NP
NATIONAL PROGRESS ALLIANCE
2× · 2022–2023 · $600k · revenue +37% · 46% of their budget
RI
ROSE-HULMAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC
4× · 2020–2023 · $490k · revenue +16%
WH
WE HEART SEATTLE
2× · 2023–2024 · $450k · revenue +16689% · 36% of their budget

Funded once

CF
CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF PARTISANSHIP & IDEOLOGY
one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue -82%
EP
EMPOWERED PATHWAYS INC
one grant, 2021 · $150k
TC
THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE
one grant, 2021 · $110k

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.

Northwest Film Forum

Northwest Film Forum incites public dialogue and creative action through collective cinematic experiences. A nonprofit film and arts center located in Seattle, Northwest Film Forum presents hundreds of films, festivals, community events,…

Arts & Culture

Seattle Architectural Foundation

The Seattle Architecture Foundation connects people to the architecture, design and history of Seattle. We provide entertaining workshops, dynamic tours, educational seminars and enthusiastic community advocacy. Through our programs and…

Arts & Culture

Glasstire

Glasstire is an online magazine for visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture

Seattle Opera

To thrill, inspire and educate through the shared experience of opera

Arts & Culture

Capital Fringe Inc

Capital Fringe was founded in 2005 with a mission to celebrate cultural democracy and access to art and artistic expression for all. By embracing diversity and a spirit of independence, we create earning opportunities for individual…

Arts & Culture

The Urbanist

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

Community Improvement

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

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

International Society for Arts Science

Leonardo/ISAST fosters collaborative explorations that intersect art, science, and technology by facilitating interdisciplinary projects and documenting and disseminating information about interdisciplinary practice.

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Oregon Arts Watch

Oregon Arts Watch produces independent, professional arts and culture journalism and criticism that is transparent, fair and accurate.

Arts & Culture

The Lab Sf

The lab gives significant funding, time, and space to traditionally underrepresented artists. we seek to transform alongside artistic practices in order to engage meaningfully with visionary communities whose economic and cultural…

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Seattle Chamber Music Festival

To foster the appreciation of chamber music in our region by presenting performances featuring world-class musicians in accessible and inviting formats, with an emphasis on developing a broad-based sustainable audience through education…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Moving Picture Institute and the most unlike its peers is Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. 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.

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 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

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 — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.8%1/121

the rest of the field

11%

206,163/1,819,444

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.

05the grantee network

116 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

111/116

Grantees still filing

83/116

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$5,272,794Arts & Culture$918,376Human Services$697,500Environment$525,000Community Improvement$480,000International$260,000Science & Tech$255,000

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.

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.

ArtsfundWA74.8× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Artsfund · Seattle Foundation · Medina Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Wyman Youth Trust · The Norcliffe Foundation · Grousemont Foundation · The Jon and Mary Shirley Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Puget Sound Energy 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 organisation 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: KITTITAS COUNTY FRIENDS OF ANIMALS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 912028325 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on KITTITAS COUNTY FRIENDS OF ANIMALS, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 68% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Conru Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Conru Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE CONRU FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

116 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Conru Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE CONRU FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

116 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Conru Foundation?

More from the funding graph