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C Richard Stark Jr & Joan E Stark Foundation at a glance

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C Richard Stark Jr & Joan E Stark Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$2.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$2.7MHealth$1.7MReligion$675kRecreation & Sports$268kHuman Services$145kPhilanthropy$70kFood & Nutrition$50kArts & Culture$30k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $240k
  • $250k+1 grant · $2.4M
$70,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Iowa State University Foundation$2,395,000
We Will Collective$100,000
St Thomas Aquinas Church$70,000
St Joan of Arc Church$70,000
World Prize Foundation$25,000
Friends of St Edmonds$15,000
St Thomas Aquinas Ball$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $148k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Hospice of the Valley: $3k → 11%Youth & Shelter Services Inc: $120k → 17%Youth & Shelter Services Inc: $25k → 17%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.
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.

30%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 18 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
15

Total granted

$1.3M
$700k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+35%

Still filing today

39%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesReligionRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • YA
    YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $145k · revenue +145%
  • CF
    COMMUNITY & FAMILY RESOURCES
    3× · 2017–2020 · $20k · revenue +216%
  • MA
    MIND AND SPIRIT COUNSELING CENTER
    2× · 2022–2024 · $13k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • DA
    Dubuque Archdiocesan Fund
    one grant, 2022 · $200k
  • MG
    MARY GREELEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +38%
  • BR
    Boca Raton Regional Hospital Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +35%
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
University of Iowa Facilities Corporation

The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.

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2
Southeast Iowa Regional Medical Center Inc

Southeast iowa regional medical center is dedicated to improving the region's health by providing high-quality care, world-class customer service, and uncompromising value for our patients and their families.

Health
3
Merrick Medical Center Foundation

To support and encourage health care services and education through providing financial and fundraising assistance, including but not limitied to, soliciting and receiving contributions, gifts, grants, devises and bequests and in all other…

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4
Great River Health System Inc

Great river health system, inc. (grhs) is a non-stock, not-for-profit corporation organized for the purpose of serving as a holding company of various subsidiaries providing health care.

Health
5
Iowa Farm Bureau Foundation

Building iowa's values by recognizing and responding to significantchanges in iowa - those that fundamentally affect families and communities.

Housing & Shelter
6
Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Physicians Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
7
Isu Facilities Corporation

Assist in the construction and acquisition of real property facilities useful to iowa state university, and thereafter lease such facilities to the board of regents for the use of iowa state university.

Education
8
University Family Physicians Inc

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…

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9
Indiana University Health Frankfort Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
10
Mclaren Northern Michigan

Mclaren health care, through its subsidiaries, will be the best value in health care as defined by quality outcomes and cost.

Health
11
Indiana University Health Bedford Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
12
Indiana University Health West Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of the Valley; the most unlike its peers is Blueprint for Life Inc. 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

16 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. 16 of the 35 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,395,000 · EducationIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION+1 more: $6,250 · EducationSt Thomas Aquinas Church: $325,000 · OtherSt Thomas Aquinas ChurchSt Joan of Arc Church: $230,000 · OtherSt Joan of Arc ChurchWE WILL COLLECTIVE INCORPORATED: $200,000 · OtherWE WILL COLLECTIVE INCORPORATEDDubuque Archdiocesan Fund: $200,000 · OtherDubuque Archdiocesan FundHoly Trinity Parish Foundation: $100,000 · OtherHoly Trinity Parish FoundationDelta Tau Delta Education Fund: $100,000 · OtherDelta Tau Delta Education FundFort Dodge Community Foundation & United Way: $70,000 · OtherFriends of St Edmonds: $55,000 · Other+15 more: $279,400 · Other+15 moreMAYO CLINIC: $1,250,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICMARY GREELEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $150,000 · HealthMARY GREELEY MEDICAL CENTER FO…Boca Raton Regional Hospital Inc: $100,000 · HealthBoca Raton Regional Hospital I…+2 more: $45,000 · HealthYOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC: $145,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesBLUEPRINT FOR LIFE INC: $15,000 · ReligionAmerica's Family Coaches Inc: $5,000 · ReligionHAMILTON COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$2,401,250Other$1,559,400Health$1,545,000Human Services$147,500Religion$20,000Recreation & Sports$15,000

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 budgetIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,395,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $1,250,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWE WILL COLLECTIVE INCORPORATED: $200,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetMARY GREELEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetYOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC: $145,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARIAN HOME: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY & FAMILY RESOURCES: $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBLUEPRINT FOR LIFE INC: $15,000 over 6y, 91% of budgetHAMILTON COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetMIND AND SPIRIT COUNSELING CENTER: $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCYCLONE REGIONAL TRAINING CENTER INC: $6,250 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetIOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetIOWA SPORTS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerica's Family Coaches Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHospice of the Valley: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds WE WILL COLLECTIVE INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds MARY GREELEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds Boca Raton Regional Hospital Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE MARIAN HOME ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY & FAMILY RESOURCES ↗
  • Who funds BLUEPRINT FOR LIFE INC ↗
  • Who funds HAMILTON COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MIND AND SPIRIT COUNSELING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CYCLONE REGIONAL TRAINING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds IOWA SPORTS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds America's Family Coaches Inc ↗
  • Who funds Hospice of the Valley ↗

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.

Community Fdn of Grea…Lsb FoundationGreenState Credit Uni…Prairie Meadows Race …The Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community FdnIA20.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Lsb Foundation · GreenState Credit Union · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 C Richard Stark Jr & Joan E Stark Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from C Richard Stark Jr & Joan E Stark 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%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s 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, 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 C Richard Stark Jr & Joan E Stark Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to C Richard Stark Jr & Joan E Stark 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 35 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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