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Carol A Stuhr Family Foundation at a glance

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Carol A Stuhr 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.

$3.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$3.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$3.5MHealth$430kHuman Services$235kInternational$115kHousing & Shelter$88kFood & Nutrition$80kPublic Safety & Disaster$33kPublic Benefit$18kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,361,298
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LCMS Foundation$3,361,298
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 (FY17–22, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 8%DAKOTA BOYS & GIRLS RANCH: $10k → 12%BLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION: $10k → 9%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 8%POBLO INTERNATIONAL: $7k → 10%BLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION: $5k → 9%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 8%HIS HELPING HANDS OF CLARE COUNTY: $10k → 17%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $3k → 8%HIS HELPING HANDS OF CLARE COUNTY: $5k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
NV
IA
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
AR
TN
NC
DC
OK
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.

18%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$835k · 32 repeat orgs$3.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
53

Total granted

$835k
$368k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+11%

Still filing today

63%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.4M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
Human ServicesInternationalReligionHealthPublic BenefitFood & NutritionOther
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

  • OG
    ORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC
    3× · 2018–2021 · $45k · revenue +4%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $40k · revenue +74%
  • LD
    LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND
    5× · 2017–2021 · $38k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • Feeding Americagraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +84%
  • NR
    NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • HK
    HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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
Lutheran Services in America Incorporated

Lutheran services in america mission: cultivate caring communities that advance health and opportunity for all by building valuable connections, amplifying our voices and empowering our members in their mission to answer god's call to love…

Religion
2
Wounded Spirits Ministries

The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…

Recreation & Sports
3
Mission Mutual

Equipping mission, ministry, and philanthropic organizations (of similar vision) with the organizational and relational perspective needed to accelerate and enhance their collective impact. mission mutual exists to provide centralized…

International
4
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
5
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
6
Amazing Facts International

To proclaim to the world the everlasting gospel of revelation 14:6-12 and to encourage revival in the remnant church by leading people to embrace salvation by faith in jesus, to establish them in the church, and to disciple all believers…

Religion
7
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
8
Aerial Recovery

Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…

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9
Medical Missions Outreach Inc

In 2005, medical missions outreach began pointing others to the great physician through an annual medical missions trip to the developing world by partnering with local churches to reach their communities with the gospel. now more than 20…

International
10
Floresta Usa Incorporated

Plant with purpose, a christian nonprofit organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. we do this through: - watershed restoration & regenerative agriculture - savings…

International
11
The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc

The christian broadcasting network's mission is preaching the gospel of jesus christ into all the world. cbn's mission is preaching the gospel of jesus christ into all the world. the mission of cbn and its affiliated organizations is to…

Religion
12
Brightfocus Foundation

Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is His Helping Hands. 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

44 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. 44 of the 86 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/44
Grantees still filing
33/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LCMS Foundation: $3,361,298 · OtherLCMS Foundation+51 more: $723,000 · Other+51 moreLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $37,500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $32,500 · Human ServicesHIS HELPING HANDS: $15,000 · Human ServicesDAKOTA BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH: $15,000 · Human ServicesBLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION: $15,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesPOBLO INTERNATIONAL: $7,000 · Human ServicesORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC: $45,000 · InternationalFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $25,000 · InternationalLUTHERANS IN MEDICAL MISSIONS: $15,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $12,500 · InternationalMercy Ships International: $10,000 · InternationalGLOBAL LUTHERAN OUTREACH INC: $10,000 · InternationalFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $10,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 · InternationalST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $40,000 · HealthCaringBridge: $15,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · HealthPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $10,000 · HealthMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $5,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $5,000 · HealthLUTHERAN BIBLE TRANSLATORS INC: $27,500 · ReligionINTENTIONAL LIFE MEDIA: $12,500 · ReligionAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $10,000 · ReligionLUTHERAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · ReligionTIME OF GRACE MINISTRY: $10,000 · ReligionINTERNATIONAL STUDENT MINISTRY INC: $5,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $5,000 · ReligionLIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 · ReligionDISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS GENESEE-CHAPTER 3: $10,000 · Public BenefitPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $5,000 · Public BenefitFeeding America: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$4,084,298Human Services$142,000International$132,500Health$95,000Religion$85,000Public Benefit$15,000Food & Nutrition$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOTA - Children's Organ Transplant Association: $70,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $37,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $32,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN BIBLE TRANSLATORS INC: $27,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEast Side Soup Kitchen: $20,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetMIRACLE FLIGHTS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHIS HELPING HANDS: $15,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetCaringBridge: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDAKOTA BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTENTIONAL LIFE MEDIA: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIME OF GRACE MINISTRY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $7,500 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ST PAUL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLUTHERAN ASSOCIATION OF MISSIONARIES AND PILOTS US: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 COTA - Children's Organ Transplant Association ↗
  • Who funds ORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN BIBLE TRANSLATORS INC ↗
  • Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds East Side Soup Kitchen ↗
  • Who funds MIRACLE FLIGHTS ↗
  • Who funds HIS HELPING HANDS ↗
  • Who funds CaringBridge ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERANS IN MEDICAL MISSIONS ↗
  • Who funds DAKOTA BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH ↗
  • Who funds BLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds INTENTIONAL LIFE MEDIA ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗

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.

Thrivent Charitable I…Thrivent Financial fo…Concordia Lutheran Mi…Wallace & Irene Bronn…The Bolick FoundationCharles Stewart Mott …The John & Katherine …Raymond James Charita…Renaissance Charitabl…Natl Christian Charit…The Blackbaud Giving …Vanguard Charitable E…
Thrivent Charitable Impact & InvestingWI24.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Concordia Lutheran Ministriesfoundation · Wallace & Irene Bronner Family Charitable Foundation · The Bolick Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · The John & Katherine Duda Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Carol A Stuhr Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carol A Stuhr Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 86 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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More from the funding graph

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