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Elbridge & Evelyn Stuart Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$303k
Granted FY2025still arriving
51
Grants FY2025still arriving
20
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$1.3MArts & Culture$459kHealth$177kAnimals$122kEnvironment$112kReligion$111kHuman Services$100kRecreation & Sports$47kOther$0
02FY2025 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k42 grants · $153k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $150k
$4,000
Median grant
20
States reached
$6.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STAR GOSPEL MISSION$25,000
HOOVER INSTITUTION$25,000
CHANNEL 72 INC - THE MAGORA PROJECT$20,000
GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION$20,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY HUMANITIES CENTER$20,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF CHARLESTON$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CA$10,000
DEFY VENTURES$7,500
MARLBOROUGH SCHOOL$7,500
GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE$5,000
JOHN AUSTIN CHENEY FOUNDATION$5,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$5,000
INNER CITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION$5,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION 5K: $5k → 11%ONE22: $5k → 5%EVERY CHILD FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%LES AMIES: $2k → 14%ONE VOICE: $5k → 14%ONE VOICE: $5k → 14%ONE VOICE: $5k → 14%ONE VOICE: $5k → 14%ONE VOICE: $5k → 14%ONE VOICE: $3k → 14%NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH ASSOCATION: $32k → 14%ONE VOICE: $3k → 14%NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH ASSOCATION: $5k → 14%ONE VOICE: $3k → 14%NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH ASSOCATION: $5k → 14%NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH ASSOCATION: $5k → 14%NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH ASSOCATION: $1k → 14%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

ME
NH
WA
ID
MT
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
NV
WY
IA
NJ
CA
CO
KY
MD
AZ
NC
SC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.0M · 68 repeat orgs$352k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.

68 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

68
62

Total granted

$2.0M
$259k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+34%

Still filing today

62%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k 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
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsHealthEnvironmentOther

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

  • The Trustees of Princeton University
    8× · 2017–2024 · $277k · revenue +5%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS
    5× · 2017–2021 · $154k · revenue +3%
  • MS
    MARLBOROUGH SCHOOL
    6× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • SG
    STAR GOSPEL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $30k
  • SU
    STANDFORD UNIVERSITY BING OVERSEAS STUDY
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • WC
    WYOMING CIVIC ENGAGEMENT NETWORK
    one grant, 2024 · $10k

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.

1
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
3
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

6
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
7
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
8
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
10
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
11
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
12
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint John's Health Center Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Wyoming Wildlife Advocates. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Animal Rescue and ShelterIndependent K-12 SchoolsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community Arts CentersDance Arts OrganizationsChristian Youth CampsPolicy Research and AdvocacyFood Banks and PantriesPublic Library OperationsCommunity College Foundatio…Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%40%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/93
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,472

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.

04the grantee network

88 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 88 of the 153 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)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
87/88
Grantees still filing
70/88
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $327,500 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JU…The Trustees of Princeton University — $277,000 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton UniversityUNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS — $154,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF REDLANDSMARLBOROUGH SCHOOL — $129,500 · EducationMARLBOROUGH SCHOOL+22 more — $267,000 · Education+22 moreThe Preservation Society of Charleston Inc — $92,500 · OtherThe Preservation Society of Charleston IncSTANFORD UNIVERSITY HUMANITIES CENTER — $87,500 · OtherSTANFORD UNIVERSITY HUMANITIES CENTEREPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF GREATER LA — $60,000 · OtherEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF GREATER LAUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA — $55,000 · Other+93 more — $776,000 · Other+93 moreNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC — $60,000 · Arts & CultureWYOFILE — $40,000 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION — $37,500 · Arts & CultureGRAND TETON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC — $10,500 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES — $7,500 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $16,500 · Arts & CultureEARTHJUSTICE — $95,000 · EnvironmentThe Charleston Parks Conservancy — $10,000 · EnvironmentWESTERN WATERSHEDS PROJECTS INC — $4,000 · Environment+2 more — $1,500 · EnvironmentWYOMING WILDLIFE ADVOCATES — $56,250 · AnimalsLAKE OCONEE HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $16,500 · AnimalsTHRIVE ANIMAL RESCUE INC — $15,500 · AnimalsCOUGAR FUND INC — $5,000 · AnimalsK9S FOR WARRIORS INC — $5,000 · AnimalsLewa Wildlife Conservancy USA — $5,000 · AnimalsNEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH ASSOCIATION — $48,000 · Human ServicesOne Voice — $34,000 · Human ServicesThe Everychild Foundation — $6,000 · Human ServicesOne22 Inc — $5,000 · Human ServicesFRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Human Services+1 more — $2,000 · Human ServicesGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $40,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF SOUTH GEORGIA ISLAND — $5,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $1,000 · Philanthropy
Education$1,155,000Other$1,071,000Arts & Culture$172,000Environment$110,500Animals$103,250Human Services$100,000Philanthropy$46,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $327,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University — $277,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS — $154,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMARLBOROUGH SCHOOL — $129,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $95,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Preservation Society of Charleston Inc — $92,500 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC — $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWYOMING WILDLIFE ADVOCATES — $56,250 over 7y, 16% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH ASSOCIATION — $48,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetWYOFILE — $40,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION — $37,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWellesley College — $36,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetINNER CITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $34,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOne Voice — $34,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetLAS MADRINAS — $33,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $27,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Hamilton College — $27,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN AUSTIN CHELEY FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $22,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC CHARLESTON FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDEFY VENTURES INC — $19,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL — $18,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLEGACY CHARTER SCHOOL — $17,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE OCONEE HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $16,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHRIVE ANIMAL RESCUE INC — $15,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND TETON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC — $10,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWYOMING CIVIC ENGAGEMENT NETWORK — $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetThe Charleston Parks Conservancy — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDavidson College — $8,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetADVANCE ILLINOIS NFP — $8,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLearnserve International — $8,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInvisible Institute — $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES — $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPOINT LOMA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Everychild Foundation — $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Art Association of Jackson Hole — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLEARNING WITH A DIFFERENCE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pierpont Morgan Library — $5,000 over 3y, 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.

  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS
  • Who funds MARLBOROUGH SCHOOL
  • Who funds EARTHJUSTICE
  • Who funds The Preservation Society of Charleston Inc
  • Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC
  • Who funds WYOMING WILDLIFE ADVOCATES
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds WYOFILE
  • Who funds GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds Wellesley College
  • Who funds INNER CITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION
  • Who funds One Voice
  • Who funds LAS MADRINAS
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
  • Who funds Trustees of Hamilton College
  • Who funds JOHN AUSTIN CHELEY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
  • Who funds HISTORIC CHARLESTON FOUNDATION
  • Who funds DEFY VENTURES INC
  • Who funds HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL
  • Who funds LEGACY CHARTER SCHOOL
  • Who funds LAKE OCONEE HUMANE SOCIETY 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.

Nelson Family FoundationWY26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nelson Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · The Brooks Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Portland Trust II · Lenhardt Foundation · John M Rivers Jr Foundation · Robert S & Grayce B Kerr Foundation · Kirby Family Foundation Inc · Guffey Family Foundation · The Otis Booth 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 Elbridge & Evelyn Stuart 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 · 20%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University11% of income from government
  • Wellesley College1% of income from government
  • Glbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 Elbridge & Evelyn Stuart Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Elbridge & Evelyn Stuart 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 153 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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