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John E and Mary E King Family Foundation Inc C/O Sterling Fdn Mgmt

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$159k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2025
11
Organizations funded FY2024
27%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$7,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$71,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 11
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$2.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 27% of the organizations John E and Mary E King Family Foundation Inc C/O Sterling Fdn Mgmt funded were first-time grantees, receiving 58% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving10$159k10%
FY202411$165k27%
FY20239$140k22%
FY20227$164k43%
FY202110$130k0%
FY202011$125k45%
FY20197$110k29%
FY20185$132k60%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Crime & Legal$426kArts & Culture$405kCivil Rights$175kEducation$114kEmployment$25kHuman Services$25kCommunity Improvement$20kHealth$18kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
PA
CA
VA
MD
NC
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 16 grantees
All grantees of John E and Mary E King Family Foundation Inc C/O Sterling Fdn Mgmt by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Legal Aid Justice Center$425,50082%
Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts$310,00040%
American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia$75,00032%
John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts$70,00010%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$50,00010%
Washington School for Girls$42,00090%
Year Up Inc$25,00010%
Jewish Foundation for Group Homes Inc$23,50070%
Building Bridges Across the River Inc$20,00020%
Youth Apostles Institute$13,5008n/a
Some Inc$10,00020%
St Brendan School$10,0002n/a
Community Health Project Inc$10,00020%
San Miguel School Inc$7,0007n/a
Creative Growth Art Center$5,00010%
Easter Seals Ucp North Carolina & Virginia Inc$3,00030%

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($135k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget John E and Mary E King Family Foundation Inc C/O Sterling Fdn Mgmt supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLegal Aid Justice Center: $425,500 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetWolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts: $310,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union of Virginia: $75,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetJohn F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts: $70,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWashington School for Girls: $42,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetYear Up Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Foundation for Group Homes Inc: $23,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBuilding Bridges Across the River Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSome Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Health Project Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCreative Growth Art Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEaster Seals Ucp North Carolina & Virginia Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

American Endowment FoundationOH10.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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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About John E and Mary E King Family Foundation Inc C/O Sterling Fdn Mgmt

How much does John E and Mary E King Family Foundation Inc C/O Sterling Fdn Mgmt give?
John E and Mary E King Family Foundation Inc C/O Sterling Fdn Mgmt reported 10 grants totaling $158,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does John E and Mary E King Family Foundation Inc C/O Sterling Fdn Mgmt fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (34%), Arts & Culture (33%), Civil Rights (14%).
Who are John E and Mary E King Family Foundation Inc C/O Sterling Fdn Mgmt's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Legal Aid Justice Center ($426k), Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts ($310k), American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia ($75k).
Does John E and Mary E King Family Foundation Inc C/O Sterling Fdn Mgmt fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does John E and Mary E King Family Foundation Inc C/O Sterling Fdn Mgmt accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as John E and Mary E King Family Foundation Inc C/O Sterling Fdn Mgmt?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Endowment Foundation, Network for Good, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
Where is John E and Mary E King Family Foundation Inc C/O Sterling Fdn Mgmt based?
John E and Mary E King Family Foundation Inc C/O Sterling Fdn Mgmt is based in VA.

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 24 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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