How much does Joseph & Sylvia Stillpass Family Foundation give?

Joseph & Sylvia Stillpass Family Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $4,450 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 27 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.

What does Joseph & Sylvia Stillpass Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (69%), International (10%), Food & Nutrition (8%).

Who are Joseph & Sylvia Stillpass Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Artists Space Inc ($50k), Citymeals-On-Wheels ($2k), Fresh Air Fund ($2k).

Does Joseph & Sylvia Stillpass Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2022, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Joseph & Sylvia Stillpass Family Foundation 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 Joseph & Sylvia Stillpass Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cowles Charitable Trust, National Philanthropic Trust, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.

Where is Joseph & Sylvia Stillpass Family Foundation based?

Joseph & Sylvia Stillpass Family Foundation is based in OH.

Joseph & Sylvia Stillpass Family Foundation

Joseph & Sylvia Stillpass Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Joseph & Sylvia Stillpass Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$360

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$67kInternational$9kFood & Nutrition$8kHealth$3kHousing & Shelter$2kRecreation & Sports$2kYouth Development$2kCrime & Legal$2kOther$0

02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100

Median grant

States reached

$19k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CITY MEALS ON WHEELS	$360
FRESH AIR FUND	$250
CITY HARVEST	$250
ALZHEIMERS ASSOC	$250
SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES	$200
SAVE THE CHILDREN	$200
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS	$200
CARE	$200
FEEDING AMERICA	$200
FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK	$200
AMFAR	$150
MERCY SHIPS	$140
ASPCA	$131
AARP FOUNDATION	$113
THE DOE FUND	$106

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 (FY18–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$91k · 36 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$91k

$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%

+19%

Still filing today

69%

54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalHuman ServicesFood & NutritionArts & CultureHealthCommunity 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.

Backed again, and grew

AS
ARTISTS SPACE INC
2× · 2017–2018 · $50k · revenue +259%
C
CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS
7× · 2017–2024 · $2k · revenue +38%
CITY HARVEST INC
7× · 2017–2024 · $2k · revenue +75%

Funded once

PM
PRINTED MATTER INC
one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +15%
TK
THE KITCHEN INC
one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue -14%
MS
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING
one grant, 2017 · $200

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.

World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International

Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International

Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition

Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science

Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education

Floresta Usa Incorporated

Plant with purpose, a christian nonprofit organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. we do this through: - watershed restoration & regenerative agriculture - savings…

International

The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International

Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals

Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition

Women's Refugee Commission Inc

To improve the lives and protect the rights of women, children and youth displaced by conflict and crisis. the women's refugee commission envisions a world in which refugees are safe, healthy and reliant and seeks to drive change in…

Human Services

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

Pathfinder International

Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Partnership to End Homelessness Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Foundation for Aids Research. 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

44 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. 44 of the 63 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)

43/44

Grantees still filing

29/44

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$52,150Other$26,887International$8,280Food & Nutrition$5,270Recreation & Sports$1,750Human Services$1,713Community Improvement$1,050

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.

The Cowles Charitable TrustNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cowles Charitable Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Joseph & Sylvia Stillpass Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joseph & Sylvia Stillpass Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

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