Washington · Private foundation
The Conru Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 40
- Grants FY2025
- 90
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 68%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 90
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $43M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 68% of the organizations The Conru Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 58% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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 | 38 | $1.3M | 50% |
| FY2024 | 90 | $2.3M | 68% |
| FY2023 | 46 | $1.6M | 80% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $798k | 36% |
| FY2021 | 39 | $1.8M | 56% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $1.2M | 85% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $670k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology | $690,000 | 5 | 0% |
| We Heart Seattle | $600,000 | 3 | 36% |
| National Progress Alliance | $600,000 | 2 | 46% |
| American Conservation Coalition Inc | $365,000 | 4 | 15% |
| Third Stone | $270,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Seattle Theatre Group | $220,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology | $200,000 | 1 | 20% |
| BELONG Partners | $200,000 | 6 | 3% |
| American Lands Project | $200,000 | 2 | 18% |
| Metafoundation Dba Post Carbon Institute | $175,000 | 5 | 5% |
Show all 148 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 49 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Conru Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 130 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: 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
How this is measured
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About The Conru Foundation
- How much does The Conru Foundation give?
- The Conru Foundation reported 40 grants totaling $1,285,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 90 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Conru Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (20%), Education (15%), Civil Rights (13%).
- Who are The Conru Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology ($690k), We Heart Seattle ($600k), National Progress Alliance ($600k).
- Does The Conru Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 68% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Conru Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Conru Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Artsfund, The Norcliffe Foundation, Seattle Foundation.
- Where is The Conru Foundation based?
- The Conru Foundation is based in WA.
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