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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
ARTS IMPACT$50,000
WALK STRONG FOUNDATION$50,000
SHUNPIKE$40,000
SEATTLE GOOD BUSINESS NETWORK$30,000
PHFFFT CO INC$30,000
TASVEER FILM FESTIVAL$30,000
SOCKS ON MY HANDS$30,000
INTIMAN THEATRE$30,000
BELONG PARTNERS$25,000
YOUTH IN FOCUS$25,000
QUEEN ANNE LUTHERAN CHURCH$25,000
NORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM$25,000
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.

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Its 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. Its 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
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.

Which US states its 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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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%
+12%

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
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

  • 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
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Theatre Group; 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.
04the grantee network

142 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
137/142
Grantees still filing
80/142
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 & CultureSHUNPIKEArtist Trust: $50,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $50,000 · Arts & CultureMOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE: $50,000 · Arts & CulturePRATT FINE ARTS CENTER: $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 ServicesCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesInternet Archive: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHORN: $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 the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 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 budgetCenter for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology: $200,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetBELONG Partners: $200,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetAMERICAN LANDS PROJECT: $200,000 over 2y, 18% 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 budgetAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWALKING STRONG INC: $100,000 over 1y, 35% 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 budgetTHE REASON FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetArtist Trust: $50,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetNORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $50,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWTIA Collaboration Institute: $50,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetDOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetBeit T'Shuvah: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNorthwestern University: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALASKA ENDEAVOUR: $50,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetCenter for Immigration Studies Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPRATT FINE ARTS CENTER: $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTasveer: $40,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetYOUTH IN FOCUS: $40,000 over 3y, 2.0% 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 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 budgetGrist Magazine Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetONE REEL: $35,000 over 2y, 36% of budgetARTSFUND: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDRUG POLICY ALLIANCE: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetARTE NOIR: $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHIRD PLACE TECHNOLOGIES: $30,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetINTIMAN THEATRE: $30,000 over 1y, 1.8% 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.

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.

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

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 Conru Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Conru Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
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.
05Through Plinth

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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 201 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home