· Private foundation
Karen Stirling 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AFRICAN OYSTER TRUST | $35,000 |
| UNITED CHARITABLE | $25,000 |
| LITTLE BOOST PRESS INC | $25,000 |
| SONGS OF LOVE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| WOODLANDS WILDLIFE REFUGE INC | $10,000 |
| BROKEN SOULS RESCUE AND RECOVERY INC | $5,000 |
| UNCHAINED AT LAST | $5,000 |
| SPARTA COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC | $5,000 |
| BLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY | $2,000 |
| SKYLANDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY AND RESCUE | $2,000 |
| SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| THE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SPARTA AMBULANCE SERVICE INC | $300 |
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.
Your US giving — 73% of grant dollars ($555k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 27% that went abroad ($210k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
Beyond the US — 27% of all-years giving ($210k)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 18% of Karen Stirling Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +81% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- RUROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2023 · $35k · revenue +37%
- GLGREAT LAKES ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATION2× · 2021–2022 · $30k · revenue +92%
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INC2× · 2017–2021 · $20k · revenue +81%
Funded once
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +1%
AMERICARES FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -22%- BOBRIDGES OUTREACH INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +67%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
To bring animals out of crisis and strengthen the bond between people and animals through emergency sheltering, disaster relief services, financial assistance and education. redrover accomplishes its mission by engaging volunteers and…
Founded in 2023, humane animal partners is a nonprofit no-kill animal care and adoption center. we are committed to providing for the needs of homeless and owned dogs and cats in our community. we make "friends for life" by connecting…
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
The friends are dedicated to the rescue, protection, and adoption of companion animals in need while inspiring the human-animal bond. we meet our mission by:-saving 100% of healthy and treatable animals.-providing high-quality animal care…
Mercy for animals' mission is to construct a compassionate food system that is not just kind to animals but essential for the future of our planet and all who share it. our vision of a world where animals are respected, protected, and free…
Animal equality is an international organization working with society, governments, and companies to end cruelty to farmed animals.
The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jersey Battered Women's Service Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
36 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. 36 of the 46 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds UNITED CHARITABLE ↗
- Who funds SONGS OF LOVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds JERSEY BATTERED WOMEN'S SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds WOODLANDS WILDLIFE REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds BIG APPLE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds TYPE MEDIA CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE 30 DAY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BROKEN SOULS RESCUE & RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds STREET LAB INC ↗
- Who funds SPARTA COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Lakota Wolf Preserve Inc ↗
- Who funds ALI FORNEY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNCHAINED AT LAST INC ↗
- Who funds NEWARK ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS INC ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds THE RAPTOR TRUST ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENCY OF SUSSEX COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds SKYLANDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY AND RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRY GODMOTHER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ONLINE NEWS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY ↗
- Who funds ST HUBERT'S GIRALDA D/B/A ST HUBERT'S ANIMAL WELFARE CENTER ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Ford Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Verizon Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good
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 Karen Stirling Family Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Jersey Battered Women's Service Inc — 40% of income from government
- Bridges Outreach Inc — 25% of income from government
- Newark Arts Council — 16% of income from government
- Sparta Ambulance Service Inc — 0% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Rowan University Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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