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Glen and Dorothy Stillwell Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$341k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0164% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2025.

Human Services$403kHealth$340kEducation$133kCommunity Improvement$105kReligion$73kHousing & Shelter$65kCrime & Legal$55kFood & Nutrition$30kInternational$20kOther$808k
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $325k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCHOLAR'S HOPE FOUNDATION$25,000
DOORSTEP PROJECT INC$20,000
TUCKER'S HOUSE$20,000
SOUTH COUNTY OUTREACH$20,000
BRIDGES OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY$20,000
WISEPLACE$20,000
PROJECT KINSHIP$20,000
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE HUNTINGTON BEACH$20,000
SHANTI ORANGE COUNTY$15,000
MOMS ORANGE COUNTY$15,000
MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ORANGE COUNTY$15,000
THOMAS HOUSE FAMILY SHELTER$15,000
HOPE HARBOR$10,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF STANTON$10,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF ORANGE COUNTY$10,000
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 (FY19–25, $323k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SPIN (SERVING PEOPLE IN NEED): $10k → 10%GRACE WORKS MINISTRIES: $15k → 4%TUCKERS HOUSE: $10k → 10%PROGRESS INC: $20k → 14%PROGRESS INC: $20k → 14%PROGRESS INC: $10k → 14%MOTHER TO MOTHER: $20k → 14%INSIGHT COUNSELING CENTERS: $15k → 14%PROJECT KINSHIP: $20k → 10%WISEPLACE: $20k → 10%WISE PLACE: $20k → 10%WISEPLACE: $20k → 10%LAURA'S HOUSE: $10k → 10%LAURA'S HOUSE: $10k → 10%FRISTERS: $20k → 10%FRISTERS: $20k → 10%ILLUMINATION FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%KEEP HER UPLIFTED (KHERUT): $10k → 10%RADIANT FUTURES: $10k → 10%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF FULLERTON: $5k → 10%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF FULLERTON: $3k → 10%PARENTIS FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%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.

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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 34 repeat orgs$773k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
46

Total granted

$1.2M
$663k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
0%

Still filing today

91%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther

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

  • NA
    NASHVILLE ANTI-HUMAN TRAFFICKING COALITION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $73k · revenue +28%
  • MW
    MARIPOSA WOMEN AND FAMILY CENTER
    4× · 2019–2024 · $70k · revenue +163%
  • AL
    ASSISTANCE LEAGUE HUNTINGTON BEACH
    3× · 2023–2025 · $60k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $30k
  • OC
    ORANGE COUNTY ADULT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER DBA MY DAY COUNTS
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +11%
  • HI
    H I R E
    one grant, 2023 · $30k

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
Mercy House Living Centers

Mercy house's most significant exempt activities focus on ending homelessness and providing comprehensive housing and support services. the organization offers homeless prevention, rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing, and…

Housing & Shelter
2
Family Promise of Orange County

To provide emergency shelter, hospitality, and services to homeless families, helping to eliminate their homelessness and place each family in a home of their own in about two months.

Human Services
3
Homeless Intervention Services of Orange County

The mission of homeless intervention services of orange county is to provide support and assistance to the underprivileged and unhoused to improve their quality of life and to help them regain stability and hope.

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4
Grandma's House of Hope

Grandma's house of hope empowers the invisible populations of orange county by providing emergency, bridge and transitional housing with trauma-informed supportive services to single individuals experiencing unsheltered homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
5
Laurel House Inc dba Hope Harbor

The mission of Laurel House (dba Hope Harbor) is providing a home for teens in crisis, transforming lives, and strengthening families. Laurel House has the only long-term youth shelters in Orange County, CA for runaway, homeless and…

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6
New Alternatives Inc

New alternatives, inc. is committed to providing abused and negelected youth with hope and opportunities through a comprehensive array of social, residential and mental health services that we provide in san diego and orange county.

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7
The Open Door Network

To stop domestic violence and sexual assault in kern county and assist survivors in reclaiming their lives.

Human Services
8
People for Irvine Community Health

211OC links Orange County's most vulnerable with the health and human service resources they need. Last year alone, we served over 100,000 requests for help (call/email/in-person/online). Everyone knows someone who needs help. For…

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9
Mary's Shelter

Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.

Human Services
10
Habitat for Humanity of Orange County Inc

Habitat for humanity's mission is to give witness to the christian gospel by working with god's people to build decent habitats for those who are inadequately sheltered in orange county.

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11
Options Counseling Services of Oregon Inc

In partnership with members of the communities we serve, options counseling and family services promotes safety, healing, and empowerment of individuals and families. options supports the health safety, equity, and well-being of our…

Unclassified
12
House of Ruth Inc

House of ruth is dedicated to preventing domestic violence and ensuring the safety and well-being of those impacted.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Assistance Ministries and the most unlike its peers is Action Alliance Foundation. 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 34 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%3%<5yr16%3%5–10yr21%18%10–20yr18%29%20–35yr10%26%35–55yr11%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%2%<5yr16%6%5–10yr21%15%10–20yr18%24%20–35yr10%31%35–55yr11%23%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/74
the rest of the field
14%
2,711/19,910

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

73 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. 73 of the 90 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/73
Grantees still filing
43/73
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LESTONNAC FREE CLINIC — $55,000 · OtherLESTONNAC FREE CLINICNEW VISTA SCHOOL — $55,000 · OtherNEW VISTA SCHOOLSOUTH COUNTY OUTREACH — $45,000 · OtherTHOMAS HOUSE TEMPORARY SHELTER — $45,000 · OtherORANGE COUNTY ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH — $35,000 · Other+43 more — $678,025 · Other+43 moreWISEPLACE — $60,000 · Human ServicesWISEPLACECASA TERESA INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesCASA TERESA INCPROGRESS INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesPROGRESS INCFristers — $40,000 · Human ServicesFristersTUCKER'S HOUSE — $30,000 · Human ServicesTUCKER'S HOUSEIllumination Health Home formerly The Illumination Foundation — $25,000 · Human ServicesIllumination Health Ho…PROJECT KINSHIP — $20,000 · Human ServicesMOTHER TO MOTHER INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesWOMENS TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER INC RADIANT FUTURES — $20,000 · Human ServicesLAURA'S HOUSE — $20,000 · Human ServicesPASTORAL COUNSELING CENTERS OF TENN — $15,000 · Human ServicesGRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC — $15,000 · Human Services+4 more — $38,000 · Human Services+4 moreMARIPOSA WOMEN AND FAMILY CENTER — $70,000 · HealthMARIPOSA WOMEN AND…SHANTI ORANGE COUNTY — $40,000 · HealthSHANTI ORANGE COUN…LAGUNA BEACH COMMUNITY CLINIC — $35,000 · HealthLAGUNA BEACH COMMU…THE AUTISM COMMUNITY IN ACTION — $30,000 · HealthTHE AUTISM COMMUNI…MOMS ORANGE COUNTY — $30,000 · HealthMOMS ORANGE COUNTYUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOC OF OC — $25,000 · HealthUNITED CEREBRAL PA…RENEWAL HOUSE INC — $20,000 · HealthRENEWAL HOUSE INCPEDIATRICS-ADOLESCENT DIABETES RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $20,000 · HealthPEDIATRICS-ADOLESC…Linden Oaks — $20,000 · HealthLinden OaksBRIDGES OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY — $20,000 · HealthBRIDGES OF WILLIAM…+3 more — $30,000 · Health+3 moreSCHOLARS' HOPE FOUNDATION — $90,000 · EducationMARSHALL B KETCHUM UNIVERSITY — $15,000 · EducationLEARNING MATTERS INC — $10,000 · EducationThe Prentice School — $10,000 · EducationProject Hope Alliance — $7,500 · EducationASSISTANCE LEAGUE HUNTINGTON BEACH — $60,000 · Community ImprovementCHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY — $30,000 · Community ImprovementProject Access Inc — $15,000 · Community ImprovementNASHVILLE ANTI-HUMAN TRAFFICKING COALITION — $73,000 · ReligionSHELTER PROVIDERS OF ORANGE COUNTY INC — $30,000 · Housing & ShelterCASA YOUTH SHELTER — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterOrange County Rescue Mission Inc — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterCOLETTE'S CHILDREN'S HOME INC — $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$913,025Human Services$403,000Health$340,000Education$132,500Community Improvement$105,000Religion$73,000Housing & Shelter$65,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSCHOLARS' HOPE FOUNDATION — $90,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetNASHVILLE ANTI-HUMAN TRAFFICKING COALITION — $73,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMARIPOSA WOMEN AND FAMILY CENTER — $70,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE HUNTINGTON BEACH — $60,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetWISEPLACE — $60,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetLESTONNAC FREE CLINIC — $55,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNEW VISTA SCHOOL — $55,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCASA TERESA INC — $50,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPROGRESS INC — $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTH COUNTY OUTREACH — $45,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHOMAS HOUSE TEMPORARY SHELTER — $45,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetSHANTI ORANGE COUNTY — $40,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetFristers — $40,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetORANGE COUNTY ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH — $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLAGUNA BEACH COMMUNITY CLINIC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBuild Futures — $30,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetSHELTER PROVIDERS OF ORANGE COUNTY INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetORANGE COUNTY ADULT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER DBA MY DAY COUNTS — $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTUCKER'S HOUSE — $30,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTHE AUTISM COMMUNITY IN ACTION — $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOMS ORANGE COUNTY — $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE PRIORITY CENTER ENDING THE GENERATIONAL CYCLE — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOC OF OC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE HARBOR — $25,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetIllumination Health Home formerly The Illumination Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHIGH HOPES INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT KINSHIP — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRENEWAL HOUSE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMOTHER TO MOTHER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWOMENS TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER INC RADIANT FUTURES — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLAURA'S HOUSE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSERVING KIDS HOPE — $20,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetGIVING CHILDREN HOPE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPEDIATRICS-ADOLESCENT DIABETES RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetLinden Oaks — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGES OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY — $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHEALING HOUSING INC — $15,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetPASTORAL COUNSELING CENTERS OF TENN — $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCASA YOUTH SHELTER — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPATHWAYS TO INDEPENDENCE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetProject Access Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEYOND BLINDNESS — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMARSHALL B KETCHUM UNIVERSITY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEARNING MATTERS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

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.

Orange County Communi…O L Halsell FoundationSisters of St Joseph …Hoag Memorial Hospita…The Devto Support Fou…Edwards Lifesciences …Farmers & Merchants B…Orange County's Unite…Decorative Arts Socie…The Crean FoundationSt Joseph Health Syst…Ueberroth Family Foun…
Orange County Community FoundationCA78.7× affinity44 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian · The Devto Support Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · Orange County's United Way · Decorative Arts Society · The Crean Foundation · St Joseph Health System Foundation · Ueberroth Family 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 Glen and Dorothy Stillwell Charitable Trust 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    38report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Glen and Dorothy Stillwell Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Glen and Dorothy Stillwell Charitable Trust 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 90 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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