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The Sirpuhe & John Conte Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$323k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$323,100
Largest grant, FY2024
$323,100
Organizations funded a year
1 to 24
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$4.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations The Sirpuhe & John Conte Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$323k0%
FY20231$346k0%
FY20221$312k0%
FY20211$329k0%
FY20201$272k0%
FY20191$486k100%
FY201824$412k42%
FY201719$595kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$2.1MHuman Services$356kReligion$247kAnimals$130kEducation$113kArts & Culture$56kEnvironment$40kHealth$30kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MA
PA
NJ
CA
MO
VA
MD
NC
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Armenian Missionary Assoc of Amer Inc$231,7542n/a
Pet Rescue Center Inc$130,000236%
Desert Christian Academy$52,00020%
Coachella Valley Rescue Mission$50,00020%
Living Desert The$40,00020%
Palm Springs International Piano Competition$20,00022%
Notre Dame High School$16,0002n/a
Good News Jail & Prison Ministry$10,0002n/a
Samaritan's Purse$10,00020%
Armenian Assembly of America Inc$10,00020%
Show all 19 grantees
All grantees of The Sirpuhe & John Conte Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Armenian Missionary Assoc of Amer Inc$231,7542n/a
Pet Rescue Center Inc$130,000236%
Desert Christian Academy$52,00020%
Coachella Valley Rescue Mission$50,00020%
Living Desert The$40,00020%
Palm Springs International Piano Competition$20,00022%
Notre Dame High School$16,0002n/a
Good News Jail & Prison Ministry$10,0002n/a
Samaritan's Purse$10,00020%
Armenian Assembly of America Inc$10,00020%
Inner-City Arts$10,00020%
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts$5,00010%
Children's Hospital Los Angeles$5,00010%
Palm Desert Community Presbyterian$5,0001n/a
Aurora Humanitarian Initiative Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Lark Musical Society Inc$5,0001n/a
Nantucket Dreamland Foundation Inc$3,60010%
Center for the Study of Young People in Groups$2,50010%
Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts$2,00010%

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.5M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Sirpuhe & John Conte Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPet Rescue Center Inc: $130,000 over 2y, 36% of budgetDesert Christian Academy: $52,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCoachella Valley Rescue Mission: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLiving Desert The: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPalm Springs International Piano Competition: $20,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArmenian Assembly of America Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetInner-City Arts: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAurora Humanitarian Initiative Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNantucket Dreamland Foundation Inc: $3,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for the Study of Young People in Groups: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKauffman Center for the Performing Arts: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

The Stephen Philibosian FoundationCA28.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Stephen Philibosian Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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How do I get to The Sirpuhe & John Conte Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Sirpuhe & John Conte 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.

About The Sirpuhe & John Conte Foundation

How much does The Sirpuhe & John Conte Foundation give?
The Sirpuhe & John Conte Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $323,100 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Sirpuhe & John Conte Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (68%), Human Services (12%), Religion (8%).
Who are The Sirpuhe & John Conte Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Armenian Missionary Assoc of Amer Inc ($232k), Pet Rescue Center Inc ($130k), Desert Christian Academy ($52k).
Does The Sirpuhe & John Conte Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Sirpuhe & John Conte Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Sirpuhe & John Conte Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Stephen Philibosian Foundation, American Endowment Foundation, Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund.
Where is The Sirpuhe & John Conte Foundation based?
The Sirpuhe & John Conte Foundation is based in CA.

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 31 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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