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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 FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$323k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 95% of THE SIRPUHE & JOHN CONTE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$323,100
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DETAILED LIST ATTACHED$323,100
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 5% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%NANTUCKET DREAMLAND FOUNDATION: $4k → 6%PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS: $5k → 22%THE LIVING DESERT: $20k → 11%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF LOS ANGELES: $5k → 14%ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA: $5k → 14%KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS: $2k → 15%SAMARITANS PURSE: $5k → 21%ARMENIAN MISSIONARY ASSN OF AMERICA: $172k → 7%GOOD NEWS JAIL AND PRISION MINISTRY: $5k → 9%SERVICE DOGS FOR HEROES: $1k → 8%THE LIVING DESERT: $20k → 11%LOS ANGELES OPERA: $10k → 14%ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA: $5k → 14%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $5k → 21%ARMENIAN MISSIONARY ASSN OF AMERICA: $60k → 7%GOOD NEWS JAIL AND PRISON MINISTRY: $5k → 9%VIRGINIA WARING INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMP: $10k → 11%LARK MUSICAL SOCIETY: $5k → 14%AURORA HUMINITARIAN INITIATIVE: $5k → 14%AMAA ORPHAN CHILD CARE FUND: $300 → 7%VIRGINIA WARING INT'L PIANO COMPETI: $10k → 11%INNER CITY ARTS: $5k → 14%PALM DESERT COMMUNITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $5k → 11%KECK SCHOOL OF MEDICINE OF USC: $20k → 14%PEGASUS RIDING ACADEMY: $3k → 11%UCLA FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%DETAILED LIST ATTACHED: $486k → 11%INNER CITY ARTS: $5k → 14%DETAILED LIST ATTACHED: $346k → 11%NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL: $8k → 14%DETAILED LIST ATTACHED: $329k → 11%ARMENIAN SISTERS ACADEMY: $5k → 14%DETAILED LIST ATTACHED: $323k → 11%NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL: $8k → 14%DETAILED LIST ATTACHED: $312k → 11%ARMENIAN SISTERS ACADEMY: $5k → 14%DETAILED LIST ATTACHED: $272k → 11%TEEN LINE: $3k → 14%PET RESCUE CENTER INC: $65k → 11%HAIGAZIAN UNIVERSITY CO AMAA: $30k → 14%PET RESCUE CENTER: $65k → 11%DESERT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $27k → 11%DESERT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $25k → 11%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

MA
PA
NJ
CA
MO
VA
MD
NC
DC

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.7M · 15 repeat orgs$401k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against -17% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
15

Total granted

$2.7M
$401k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
-17%

Still filing today

53%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentReligionInternationalEducationOther

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

  • DC
    DESERT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $52k · revenue +62%
  • CV
    COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $50k · revenue +140%
  • LD
    LIVING DESERT THE
    2× · 2017–2018 · $40k · revenue +84%

Funded once

  • A
    AMAA
    one grant, 2017 · $300k
  • HU
    HAIGAZIAN UNIVERSITY CO AMAA
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
  • KS
    KECK SCHOOL OF MEDICINE OF USC
    one grant, 2018 · $20k

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.

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Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc

The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.

Arts & Culture
2
Museum Associates

To serve the public through the collection, conservation, exhibition and interpretation of significant works of art from a broad range of cultures and historical periods, and through translation of these collections into meaningful…

Arts & Culture
3
Los Angeles Opera Company

To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…

Arts & Culture
4
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
6
American University of Armenia Corporation

Support of the educational and research activities of the american university of armenia (aua).

Education
7
Norton Simon Museum of Art At Pasadena

Operation of a public art museum.

Arts & Culture
8
Laguna Art Museum

The museum's primary exempt purpose is to promote the understanding of the role of art and artists in americn culture through collect, exhibition, research, and instruction. the focus of the organization collection is on the art of…

Arts & Culture
9
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
10
Los Angeles Pacific University

Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.

Education
11
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

12
Phoenix Art Museum

Phoenix art museum creates spaces of exchange and belonging for all audiences through dynamic exhibitions, collections, and experiences with art. this mission is supported by seven strategic pillars:(continued on schedule o)1. be a space…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ucla Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

17 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 31 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
15/17
Grantees still filing
9/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DETAILED LIST ATTACHED — $2,067,096 · OtherDETAILED LIST ATTACHEDAMAA — $299,686 · OtherAMAAARMENIAN MISSIONARY ASSOC OF AMER INC — $231,754 · OtherARMENIAN MISSIONARY ASSOC OF AMER INCPET RESCUE CENTER INC — $130,000 · Other+15 more — $199,300 · Other+15 moreCOACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION — $50,000 · Human ServicesLIVING DESERT THE — $40,000 · EnvironmentINNER-CITY ARTS — $10,000 · Arts & CultureLARK MUSICAL SOCIETY INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureAURORA HUMANITARIAN INITIATIVE FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureNANTUCKET DREAMLAND FOUNDATION INC — $3,600 · Arts & CultureKAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $2,000 · Arts & CultureSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $10,000 · ReligionARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC — $10,000 · InternationalPENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS — $5,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EducationChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $5,000 · Health
Other$2,927,836Human Services$50,000Environment$40,000Arts & Culture$25,600Religion$10,000International$10,000Education$10,000Health$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

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

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 Sirpuhe & John Conte 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
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 4%
  • Nantucket Dreamland Foundation Inc4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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

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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.

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

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