· Private foundation
Bill and Linda Stavropoulos Family 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
54% of Bill and Linda Stavropoulos Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to University Of Notre Dame Du Lac, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 13 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Bill and Linda Stavropoulos Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 18 organizations, $919k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k17 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $128k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $354k
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FORDHAM UNIVERSITY | $400,000 |
| MIDLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $200,250 |
| GREATER MIDLAND COMMUNITY CENTER | $100,000 |
| ST KATHERNINE GREEK ORTH | $54,000 |
| MI BASEBALL FDN | $40,000 |
| ARTIS-NAPLES | $25,000 |
| NORTHWOOD UNIVERSITY | $22,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF MIDLAND COUNTY | $20,000 |
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE | $20,000 |
| NCH CENTER FOR PHILANTHROPY | $7,500 |
| CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY NAPLES | $5,000 |
| FUN TIME EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADAMY | $5,000 |
| ST DEMETRIOS GREEK ORTH | $5,000 |
| THE NAPLES PLAYERS | $5,000 |
| LEGACY CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SUCCESS | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
27 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- FUFordham University4× · 2019–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +31%
- MCMidland Center for the Arts Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $700k · revenue +85%
- AIARTIS-NAPLES INC6× · 2017–2023 · $345k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- EPEcumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Foundation Incone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -77%
- MHMYMICHIGAN HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +110%
- TOTHE OPHTHALMOLOGY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +107%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
We, trinity health-michigan and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. trinity health-michigan is a member of trinity health.
Our mission is to help people to live longer, healthier lives with dignity, and to use all of our resources to give them everything they expect and deserve in comprehensive cardiovascular care for their families and themselves.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Creating healthy communities - together
Mcad provides a transformative education within a community of support for creative students of all backgrounds to work, collaborate, and lead with confidence in a dynamic, interconnected world.
We, trinity health grand haven hospital and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.trinity health grand haven hospital is a member of trinity…
To provide diverse medical care to meet the heatlh care needs of the 14 counties in east central michigan we serve.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Midland Area Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Tri-Star Charitable Foundation. 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.
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 41 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
46 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 85 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds Fordham University ↗
- Who funds Midland Center for the Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds ARTIS-NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER MIDLAND COMMUNITY CTRS INC ↗
- Who funds Northwood University ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN BASEBALL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Midland County ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL COMPASSION INC ↗
- Who funds MYMICHIGAN HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds THE OPHTHALMOLOGY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds THE NAPLES PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds BOOKS FOR COLLIER KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Fun Time Early Childhood Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds ADOPTION OPTION INC ↗
- Who funds Legacy Center for Community Success ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-STAR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Midland Area Community Foundation · The Patricia and David Kepler Foundation · The Charles J Strosacker Foundation · Bierlein Companies Foundation · The Herbert H & Grace a Dow Foundation · The Doan Family Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Ludington Family Foundation · Rollin M Gerstacker Foundation · Chemical Bank Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Mymichigan Health
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 Bill and Linda Stavropoulos Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hoops and Homework Inc — 5% of income from government
- Christ Child Society of Naples Inc — 3% of income from government
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.