How much does Lydia B Stokes Foundation give?

Lydia B Stokes Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $1,415,691 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Lydia B Stokes Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (43%), Food & Nutrition (26%), Community Improvement (9%).

Who are Lydia B Stokes Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Western Landowners Alliance ($1.1M), Forage Inc ($805k), Health Care Without Harm ($717k).

Does Lydia B Stokes Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Lydia B Stokes 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 Lydia B Stokes Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rsf Social Finance Inc, Community Foundation for San Benito County, Patagoniaorg.

Where is Lydia B Stokes Foundation based?

Lydia B Stokes Foundation is based in VT.

Lydia B Stokes Foundation

Lydia B Stokes Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Lydia B Stokes Foundation

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.

$1.4M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$370k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$2.6MFood & Nutrition$1.5MCommunity Improvement$532kArts & Culture$307kHousing & Shelter$197kEducation$175kHealth$173kCivil Rights$115kOther$0

02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k1 grant · $5k
$10k–50k13 grants · $315k
$50k–250k4 grants · $393k
$250k+2 grants · $703k

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.3M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
WESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE	$370,000
HEALTH CARE WITHOUT HARM	$333,333
FORAGE INC	$138,000
Individual grant recipient	$114,894
REBUILDING TOGETHER NORTH CENTRAL FLORIDA	$73,780
FIBERSHED	$66,000
CISA	$41,584
NEW MEXICO FARMERS MARKETING ASSOCIATION	$40,000
Individual grant recipient	$27,000
GROW FOOD NORTHAMPTON	$25,000
Individual grant recipient	$25,000
NATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS COALITION	$25,000
CULTURAL ARTS COALITION	$23,000
GREATER DUVAL NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION	$21,600
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS	$20,000

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 (FY17–24, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$5.6M · 34 repeat orgs$396k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.6M

$371k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%

+12%

Still filing today

79%

83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementEducationArts & CultureHealthOther

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

WL
WESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +385%
FI
Forage Inc
9× · 2017–2025 · $805k · revenue +382% · 54% of their budget
RT
Rebuilding Together North Central F
9× · 2017–2025 · $191k · revenue +810%

Funded once

HC
HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES
one grant, 2017 · $60k · revenue -21%
Realize Impactgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue ×127 · 29% of their budget
SF
SOLIDAGO FOUNDATION
one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -64%

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.

Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Hampshire

NOFA-NH actively promotes organic, regenerative, ecologically sound farming, gardening, eating, and land care practices for healthy communities. NOFA-NH helps people build local, just, and sustainable food systems.

Food & Nutrition

Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont

The northeast organic farming association of vermont promotes organic practices to build an ecomnomically viable, ecologically sound and socially just vermont agricultural system that benefits all living things.

Arts & Culture

The Food Alliance

Food alliance works at the juncture of science, business and values to define and promote sustainability in agriculture and the food industry, and to ensure safe and fair working conditions, humane treatment of animals, and careful…

Arts & Culture

Food Action

Our mission is to educate, organize and advocate for food and farming systems to become economically prosperous, ecologically sound and socially equitable.

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Equitable Food Initiative

EFIs mission is to transform the produce industry and the lives of farmworkers by facilitating collaboration among workers, agricultural employers, retail buyers and consumer advocates.

Human Services

Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition

Organic Farmers Association

The mission of the Organic Farmers Association is to provide a strong and unified national voice for domestic certified organic producers so that organic agriculture will become the basis of a viable United States food and agricultural…

Food & Nutrition

Development in Gardening

Development in Gardening is improving the nutrition and livelihoods of some of the world's most uniquely marginalized people by teaching them to plant regenerative gardens that grow health, wealth, and a sense of belonging.

Community Improvement

New Roots Institute

New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.

Food & Nutrition

A Greener World

A Greener World empowers sustainable solutions in agriculture, promoting and supporting real-life farming models to the public and offering farmers and ranchers practical guidance, resources and support on achieving truly sustainable…

Food & Nutrition

The Farm Collaborative

Growing a local food system where the health of people and planet come first

Education

Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Farm to Table Inc; the most unlike its peers is Holistic Manangement International. 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

54 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. 54 of the 67 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)

53/54

Grantees still filing

37/54

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Environment$2,198,116Food & Nutrition$1,268,140Other$1,502,436Community Improvement$350,700Arts & Culture$273,800Education$206,700Housing & Shelter$190,780

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.

Rsf Social Finance IncCA33.5× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rsf Social Finance Inc · Community Foundation for San Benito County · Patagoniaorg · Tides Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Clif Family Foundation · The John Merck Fund · Tomkat Ranch Educational Foundation · Novo Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Farm Aid Inc · Thornburg 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 Lydia B Stokes Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lydia B Stokes Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

17report 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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