· Private foundation
Foundation for Creativity in Dispute Resolution C/O Sterling Foundation LLC
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $82k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| USF FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $32,000 |
| THE CHARLES WIDGER SCHOOL OF LAW AT VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| REBUILDING UKRAINE ASSOCIATION INC | $25,000 |
| PROBABILITY MANAGEMENT INC | $5,000 |
| XAVERIAN HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 15% of Foundation for Creativity in Dispute Resolution C/O Sterling Foundation LLC’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against -9% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
University of South Florida Foundation Inc2× · 2022–2023 · $60k · revenue +32%- PMPROBABILITY MANAGEMENT INC6× · 2017–2023 · $15k · revenue -18%
- USUCLA SCHOOL OF LAW4× · 2017–2020 · $5k
Funded once
- TCTHE CHARLES WIDGET SCHOOL OF LAW AT VILLANOVA UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $25k
- NSNATIONAL STROKE ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2017 · $15k
- UBUC BERKELEY FOUNDATIONone 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.
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.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.
The florida state university foundation enhances the academic mission and vision of florida state university through its organized fundraising activities and funds management. the fsu foundation accomplishes its mission by fostering…
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
Raise private resources to advance the mission and priorities of the university and serve as ambassadors in the community. provide stewardship in the prudent investment of resources and ensure the integrity of the foundation through…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
To promote, encourage and enhance research activities at the university of south florida.
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.
To build relationships with alumni and friends in order to secure private funds and other resources for the benefit of the university of southern mississippi (usm). the foundation receives, invests and distributes private gifts in support…
Support of miami university
To advance florida gulf coast university and its students by promoting the institution, securing philanthropy to support the needs of the university, managing and administering assets with a long term perspective, and providing resources…
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.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 24 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of South Florida Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PROBABILITY MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL STROKE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA NEXT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STETSON UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds UC LAW SF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BESS THE BOOK BUS INC ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA LEGAL SERVICES 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.
Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Foundation for Creativity in Dispute Resolution C/O Sterling Foundation LLC funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foundation for Creativity in Dispute Resolution C/O Sterling Foundation LLC. Bigger dots raise more.
- Bay Area Legal Services Inc: 14% of income from government
- Florida Next Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
- Stetson University Inc: 0% of income from government
- Bess the Book Bus Inc: 0% of income from government