· Private foundation
Edward & Nancy Stavis Charitable Foundation C/O Emily Stavis
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| FLORIDA GRAND OPERA | $6,000 |
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON | $6,000 |
| BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
| CAPE COD CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL | $3,350 |
| MIAMI CITY BALLET | $3,000 |
| NEW WORLD SYMPHONY | $3,000 |
| ADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| SPEAKEASY STAGE COMPANY | $2,000 |
| BOSTON BALLET | $1,000 |
| HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY | $250 |
| CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION | $200 |
| CHOPIN FOUNDATION | $200 |
| KBCF | $175 |
| KEY BISCAYNE WOMANS CLUB | $130 |
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 (FY21–21, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $375 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
- BSBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC4× · 2021–2024 · $19k · revenue +30%
- CCCAPE COD CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL INC5× · 2020–2024 · $14k · revenue +67%
- MCMIAMI CITY BALLET INC5× · 2020–2024 · $11k · revenue +11%
Funded once
THE CHESTNUT HILL SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +21%- CHCATHOLIC HOSPICE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100 · revenue +37%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Incone grant, 2023 · $100 · revenue +3%
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.
We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.
The charleston symphony's mission is to inspire and engage the community through exceptional musical performances and educational programs.
The orchestra is dedicated to bringing orchestral music of the highest caliber to south florida. its mission is to delight, inspire and educate the communities we serve through music.
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
Balletx expands the vocabulary of contemporary ballet for all audiences through innovative performances, world premiere choreography, dance education, and community programs.
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
Perform, promote and sustain classical ballet.
Please refer to schedule o for the organization's complete mission statement.
Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.
Amda is committed to providing an unsurpassed performing arts education to a diverse community of creative artists. amda seeks to be both the school and the stage, where students are given the support and the freedom to find their voice…
The mission of lyrica baroque is to support a diverse community of students, teachers, artists, institutions and audiences of all ages through education, collaboration and performance. lyrica baroque seeks to promote the extraordinary…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Repertory Theatre Co Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Dennis Public Library Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 32 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 BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA GRAND OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE COD CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds Speakeasy Stage Company Inc ↗
- Who funds ADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds THE CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHESTNUT HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE DENNIS PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
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: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Edward & Nancy Stavis Charitable Foundation C/O Emily Stavis 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.
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Huntington Theatre Co Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Celebrity Series of Boston Inc — 3% of income from government
- Boston Ballet Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- New World Symphony Inc — 0% of income from government
- American Repertory Theatre Co Inc — 0% of income from government
- Catholic Hospice Inc — 0% 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.