Does Herman Stallman Esther Stallman & Henry Stallman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Herman Stallman Esther Stallman & Henry Stallman Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hutchinson Community Foundation, Beach-Edwards Family Foundation, George & Belle Pearce Trust.

Herman Stallman Esther Stallman & Henry Stallman Foundation

Herman Stallman Esther Stallman & Henry Stallman Foundation at a glance

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Herman Stallman Esther Stallman & Henry Stallman Foundation

Q: What does Herman Stallman Esther Stallman & Henry Stallman Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (17%), Health (15%), Education (10%).

Q: Who are Herman Stallman Esther Stallman & Henry Stallman Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Training and Evaluation Center of Hutchinson Inc ($155k), Brighthouse Inc ($103k), The Food Bank of Reno Co Inc ($100k).

Q: Does Herman Stallman Esther Stallman & Henry Stallman Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$148k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$20k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$253kHealth$223kEducation$144kYouth Development$137kFood & Nutrition$133kHousing & Shelter$131kArts & Culture$116kAnimals$114kOther$0

02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k23 grants · $89k
$10k–50k4 grants · $59k

$3,675

Median grant

States reached

$3.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
TRAINING & EVALUATION CENTER OF HUTCHINSON	$20,000
FOOD BANK OF RENO COUNTY	$14,700
NEW BEGINNINGS	$12,250
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HUTCHINSON	$12,250
BUHLER USD 313	$9,800
SALVATION ARMY	$7,350
HUTCHINSON COMMUNITY COLLEGE ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION	$7,350
COSMOSPHERE INC	$7,350
BRIGHTHOUSE	$5,880
FIRST CALL FOR HELP	$5,145
UNITED WAY OF RENO COUNTY	$4,900
CAUSE FOR PAWS INC	$4,900
HUTCHINSON'S HISTORIC FOX THEATRE INC	$4,165
INTERFAITH HOUSING SERVICES INC	$3,675
STRATACA KANSAS UNDERGROUND SALT MUSEUM	$2,940

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $117k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.4M · 33 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.4M

$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%

Still filing today

55%

17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureAnimalsEducationOther

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

TA
TRAINING AND EVALUATION CENTER OF HUTCHINSON INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $155k · revenue +9%
BI
BRIGHTHOUSE INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $103k · revenue +179%
NB
NEW BEGINNINGS INC
8× · 2017–2025 · $88k · revenue +122%

Funded once

CO
CITY OF HUTCHINSON HOUSING COMMISSION
one grant, 2017 · $10k
KC
KANSAS COSMOSPHERE & SPACE CENTER
one grant, 2020 · $9k
HC
HORIZON CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER
one grant, 2019 · $3k

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.

04Its 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.

Hutchinson Family Services Inc

To operate a child care facility in hutchinson, kansas providing services to working parents in need of child care.

Human Services

Housing Services of Kansas City Inc

The Housing Services of Kansas City, Inc is focused on creating and preserving affordable housing for low income kansas city residents.

Housing & Shelter

Atchison Community Health Clinic Inc

Atchison community health clinic exists to promote wellness by providing quality healthcare to all.

Health

Hutchinson County Crisis Center Inc

Hutchinson county crisis center is a community based nonprofit agency committed to ending the cycle of domestic violence and sexual assault by providing safe residence for victims and their children, legal advocacy, interactive listening,…

Crime & Legal

Cat House Mcpherson Corporation

Not-for-profit humane society

Animals

Harrison County Humane Society

The harrison county humane society is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to ending the suffering of stray or unwanted dogs, cats, puppies and kittens by ensuring they have food, water, shelter and medical attention when needed…

Animals

Hutchinson Postal & Community Credit Union

To provide high quality financial services for our members/owners enhancing their financial well-being while maintaining the financial strength of the credit union

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Habitat for Humanity of Nodaway County Inc

Provide affordable housing to low-income families

Housing & Shelter

Hutchinson Art Association Inc

Operation of art gallery

Arts & Culture

Hutchinsonreno County Chamber of Commerce

The hutchinson/reno county chamber of commerce is a volunteer-driven organization deducated to creating a favorable business climate for its nearly 1200 business and community members. the organization has been building a stronger economy…

—

Helping Hands Humane Society Inc

To provide shelter and care for abandoned animals in topeka and shawnee county, kansas.

Animals

Whitman County Humane Society

The organization values the human/animal bond, provides stewardship for homeless pets and promotoes compassionate treatment of all companion animals.

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hutchinson Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Food Bank of Reno Co Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 42 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

21/22

Grantees still filing

15/22

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$915,006Human Services$117,226Philanthropy$112,904Education$99,255Arts & Culture$91,512Health$62,591Animals$52,555

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.

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.

Hutchinson Community FoundationKS45× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hutchinson Community Foundation · Beach-Edwards Family Foundation · George & Belle Pearce Trust · Meyer Charitable Trust · United Way of Reno County · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Kansas Health Foundation · James a & Juliet L Davis Foundation Inc · Robert E and Patricia Schmidt Foundation · Orvin L Miller and Peggy J Miller Charitable Foundation · Hutchinson Regional Medical Center Inc · Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Herman Stallman Esther Stallman & Henry Stallman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Herman Stallman Esther Stallman & Henry Stallman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home