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Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$26M
Granted FY2023
332
Grants FY2023
16
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$44MArts & Culture$10MYouth Development$8.4MPhilanthropy$7.8MCivil Rights$3.5MHuman Services$3.2MCommunity Improvement$2.9MCrime & Legal$2.8MOther$0
02FY2023 · 332 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 332 grants below total $20,827,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $25,666,224 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $4,838,724 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k70 grants · $200k
  • $10k–50k138 grants · $3.6M
  • $50k–250k109 grants · $11M
  • $250k+15 grants · $6.3M
$30,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$520M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Learning Policy Institute$1,000,000
Linked Learning Alliance$900,000
Latino Community Foundation$450,000
Los Angeles Education Partnership$450,000
Silicon Valley Community Foundation$450,000
Alliance for Excellent Education Inc$400,000
The Education Trust, Inc.$400,000
Stuart Foundation$375,000
EdSource Inc.$325,000
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University$300,000
Cans for Justice Education Fund Inc.$275,000
Big Picture Company Inc.$250,000
National Center for Youth Law$250,000
Stuart Foundation$250,000
The Regents of the University of CA, Los Angeles$250,000
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$57M · 289 repeat orgs$30M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

289 repeat relationships: 160 still active in FY2023, 129 since wound down; 100 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

289
563

Total granted

$57M
$25M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+29%

Still filing today

72%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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

  • LP
    Learning Policy Institute
    4× · 2017–2023 · $2.8M · revenue +2%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP
    4× · 2017–2023 · $2.4M · revenue +161%
  • NC
    National Center for Youth Law
    4× · 2017–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +143%

Funded once

  • LP
    Learning Policy Institute
    one grant, 2021 · $850k
  • RO
    Regents of the University of California, Davis
    one grant, 2021 · $613k
  • TB
    The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    one grant, 2021 · $575k
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.

03Its 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
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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2
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
3
Alternative Schools Inc

To help each child reach his/her full potential by cultivating an active village of parents, community members, and stakeholders involved in providing an individual, personal, and conceptual learning environment for each student.

Education
4
California Competes

Established in 2011, our mission is to help transform the state's higher education system into an engine of economic opportunity that empowers all californians, particularly those from underserved communities, to achieve their full…

Education
5
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
6
Presidio Hill School

Presidio hill school is a co-ed k-8 independent, progressive school. learning is collaborative and an active experience with an emphasis on inquiry. students are engaged in their own learning and guided by an expert faculty through a…

Education
7
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
8
California Latino Superintendents Association

The california association of latino superintendents and administrators (calsa) is a community of diverse educational leaders skilled in addressing the needs of latino/latina students and dedicated to increasing the number of highly…

Education
9
The Language Academy of Sacramento

The las mission is to create a learning community where students: utilize bilingualism and biliteracy (spanish and english) to achieve academic excellence and apply skills in real-world situations and diverse settings; develop and exhibit…

Education
10
Innovate Public Schools

Build the parent and community demand for world-class public schools, and to accelerate the growth of these schools, particularly for low-income students, students of colors, and students with special needs.

Philanthropy
11
Los Angeles World Affairs Council and Town Hall

The organization is a non-partisan, membership based speakers' forum that connects business leaders, community members, and engaged individuals with shared interest in local, national, and global affairs. it provides an open and accessible…

International
12
La's Best

La's best provides free supervised before and after-school activities to over 15,000 children at 200 schools in los angeles unified school district (lausd).

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leadersup; the most unlike its peers is The Edward W Hazen Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

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

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 538 of the 973 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
137
Early backer (in before they grew)
523/538
Grantees still filing
382/538
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Stuart Foundation: $3,975,206 · OtherStuart FoundationLOS ANGELES EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP: $2,415,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES EDUCATION PARTNERSHIPThe Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles: $1,687,500 · Other+121 more: $36,052,834 · Other+121 moreLearning Policy Institute: $2,820,000 · EducationLearning Policy InstituteTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $2,583,500 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF TH…LINKED LEARNING ALLIANCE: $1,920,000 · EducationLINKED LEARNING ALLIANCETHE BIG PICTURE COMPANY: $832,500 · EducationENVISION EDUCATION INC: $670,000 · EducationALLIANCE FOR EXCELLENT EDUCATION INC: $660,000 · EducationEDSOURCE INC: $636,029 · Education+30 more: $7,224,500 · Education+30 moreCalifornians Dedicated to Education Foundation: $973,850 · Youth DevelopmentTREEHOUSE: $300,000 · Youth DevelopmentHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $295,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOLLABORATIVE FOR ACADEMIC SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING: $200,000 · Youth DevelopmentJohn Burton Advocates for Youth: $199,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LOS ANGELES HARBOR: $160,000 · Youth DevelopmentFuture Leaders of America: $120,000 · Youth DevelopmentHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $110,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG STORYTELLERS: $110,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CARSON INC: $105,000 · Youth DevelopmentKQED INC: $331,800 · Arts & CultureCENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES: $294,000 · Arts & CultureTURNAROUND ARTS CALIFORNIA: $290,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FOR SYSTEMS AWARENESS INC: $220,000 · Arts & CultureINNER-CITY ARTS: $165,000 · Arts & CultureKVIE INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureEDUCATION LEADERS OF COLOR INC: $125,000 · Arts & CultureDISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER OF LOS ANGELES: $120,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $111,000 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY FOUNDATION: $105,000 · Arts & CultureLATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $455,000 · Human ServicesTHE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $325,000 · Human ServicesTHE OPPORTUNITY INSTITUTE: $275,000 · Human ServicesKOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $205,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH ASSOCIATION: $130,000 · Human ServicesHANDS FOR HOPE: $115,000 · Human ServicesProyecto Pastoral: $105,000 · Human ServicesSilicon Valley Community Foundation: $450,000 · PhilanthropyLIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION: $232,940 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $210,000 · PhilanthropyPARTNERS IN SCHOOL INNOVATION: $200,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CENTER FOR EFFECTIVE PHILANTHROPY INC: $167,500 · PhilanthropySEATTLE FOUNDATION: $125,000 · PhilanthropyFull Circle Fund: $110,000 · PhilanthropyPartnership for Children & Youth: $405,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT: $363,500 · Community ImprovementNEW PROFIT INC: $250,000 · Community ImprovementAspiration Aspirationtechorg: $125,000 · Community Improvement
Other$44,130,540Education$17,346,529Youth Development$2,572,850Arts & Culture$2,061,800Human Services$1,610,000Philanthropy$1,495,440Community Improvement$1,143,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetLearning Policy Institute: $2,820,000 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $2,583,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP: $2,415,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetLINKED LEARNING ALLIANCE: $1,920,000 over 3y, 36% of budgetNational Center for Youth Law: $1,404,724 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetCalifornians Dedicated to Education Foundation: $973,850 over 2y, 12% of budgetTHE BIG PICTURE COMPANY: $832,500 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetPUBLIC ADVOCATES INC: $690,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetENVISION EDUCATION INC: $670,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetALLIANCE FOR EXCELLENT EDUCATION INC: $660,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetCalifornians For Justice Education Fund: $642,034 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetEDSOURCE INC: $636,029 over 3y, 13% of budgetMILLS COLLEGE: $510,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Education Trust Inc: $500,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetNEW TEACHER CENTER: $500,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCONNECTED THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR COLLEGE AND CAREER: $475,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetLATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $455,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation: $450,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CALIFORNIA EDUCATION PARTNERS: $450,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetPARENT TEACHER HOME VISITS: $428,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetPRESENCING INSTITUTE INC: $411,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetPartnership for Children & Youth: $405,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetJOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC: $405,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $405,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT: $363,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP: $355,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES: $335,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKQED INC: $331,800 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $325,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES: $325,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBUCK INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION: $302,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTREEHOUSE: $300,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS: $300,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $295,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES: $294,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTURNAROUND ARTS CALIFORNIA: $290,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetTHE OPPORTUNITY INSTITUTE: $275,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetPUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA: $270,400 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC EDUCATION SUPPORT FUND: $255,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetCreate CA: $255,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $250,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW PROFIT INC: $250,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCATALYST CALIFORNIA: $243,700 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE PLAY EQUITY FUND: $242,000 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS FOUNDATION: $240,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetTURNAROUND FOR CHILDREN INC: $240,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetLIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION: $232,940 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetICIVICS INC: $225,000 over 1y, 2.3% 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 Learning Policy Institute ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds LINKED LEARNING ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds National Center for Youth Law ↗
  • Who funds Californians Dedicated to Education Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE BIG PICTURE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC ADVOCATES INC ↗
  • Who funds ENVISION EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR EXCELLENT EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Californians For Justice Education Fund ↗
  • Who funds EDSOURCE INC ↗
  • Who funds MILLS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds The Education Trust Inc ↗
  • Who funds NEW TEACHER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTED THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR COLLEGE AND CAREER ↗
  • Who funds LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Silicon Valley Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE CALIFORNIA EDUCATION PARTNERS ↗

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.

The Ralph M Parsons F…The Rose Hills Founda…The Ahmanson Foundati…Weingart FoundationThe Green FoundationThe Annenberg Foundat…California Community …The James Irvine Foun…The California Wellne…The California Endowm…Great Public Schools …Liberty Hill Foundati…
The Ralph M Parsons FoundationCA158.2× affinity117 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Green Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · California Community Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · The California Endowment · Great Public Schools Now · Liberty Hill 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.
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Find your warmest path to Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 973 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $29M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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