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Mark and Karla Stuart 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.

$31k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$29kHealth$27kHuman Services$22kAnimals$18kYouth Development$8kArts & Culture$3kCommunity Improvement$3kEducation$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$814k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SU2CANCER$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
WGA$1,500
PINK RIBBON JAX$1,500
TROUP #3349$1,100
THE ROTARTY FOUNDATION$1,050
BRIGHT HOLIDAYS$1,000
POSSIBILITIES PLUS$1,000
BEACHES COMMUNITY FUND$1,000
WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION$1,000
LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD$1,000
AB SCOUT HOUSE$1,000
BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK$1,000
CITY OF HOPE$1,000
Individual grant recipient$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SPECTRUM THRIFT STORE: $40 → 6%BRIGHT HOLIDAYS: $1k → 14%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $1k → 15%SPECTRUM THRIFT STORE: $30 → 6%BRIGHT HOLIDAYS: $1k → 14%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $450 → 15%GOLDEN HEART RANCH: $1k → 14%GENERATE HOPE: $200 → 11%WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION: $4k → 11%WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION: $1k → 11%EPISCOPAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $5k → 14%CHALLENGED ATHLETES: $100 → 11%THE COMFORT CUB: $1k → 11%THE COMFORT CUB: $500 → 11%THE COMFORT CUB: $500 → 11%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $8k → 11%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $5k → 11%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $2k → 11%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $550 → 11%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $375 → 11%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $220 → 11%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $131 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

IL
WI
NY
NV
OH
PA
CA
CO
NE
KY
MD
DC
GA
FL
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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$88k · 27 repeat orgs$51k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
38

Total granted

$88k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+18%

Still filing today

52%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • CC
    CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $16k · revenue +76%
  • RL
    RISING LEADERS OF NORTH FLORIDA INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $6k · revenue +17%
  • WF
    WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION
    2× · 2018–2025 · $5k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • EC
    EPISCOPAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -30%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • UW
    UNITED WAY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -16%
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.

1
Variety - the Childrens Charity International

We empower children who are sick, disadvantaged, or living with disabilities through life-changing programs that provide medical care, mobility, education, and support to live without limits.

International
2
Ablelight Inc

Guided by christian love, ablelight is dedicated to fully supporting and advocating for individuals with developmental disabilities, ensuring they experience security, dignity, and hope in all aspects of their lives.

Human Services
3
Opportunity Partners

Mission: together we advance the quality of life for people with disabilities. vision: people of all abilities thrive in the world. values: impact- generate solutions that make a difference. choice - create opportunities for people to lead…

Employment
4
Guardianship Services Inc

Guardianship services, inc. (gsi) answers the call to protect tarrant county's vulnerable adults from abuse, neglect and exploitation with services ranging from guardianship to money management, victim advocacy and financial literacy…

Human Services
5
Easter Seals Florida Inc

See schedule o for a complete description of the organization's mission

Health
6
Acds Inc

Acds is dedicated to providing lifetime resources of exceptional quality, innovation and inclusion for individuals with down syndrome, autism and other developmental disabilities and their families. we provide a continuum of year round…

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7
Homeward Bound Inc

Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.

Human Services
8
Abilitypath Housing

Abilitypath housing advances affordable, accessible housing projects that promote independence and inclusive communities for adults with developmental disabilities. through partnerships and innovative program designs, abilitypath housing…

Human Services
9
Behavior Analyst Certification Board Inc

We protect consumers of behavior analysis services by systematically establishing, promoting, and disseminating professional standards.

Employment
10
Abilitypath

Empower people with special needs to achieve their full potential through innovative, inclusive programs and community partnerships.

Employment
11
Mary's Shelter

Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.

Human Services
12
Marrakech Inc

Provides person-centered and inclusive services to children and adults with and without disabilities that includes securing employment, connecting to necessary supportive services, accessing housing and participating fully as contributing…

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canine Companions for Independence Inc; the most unlike its peers is 1971 Ghs Football Memorial Found. 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

28 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. 28 of the 74 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
15/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SU2CANCER: $20,000 · OtherSU2CANCERBEACHES COMMUNITY FUND: $12,000 · OtherBEACHES COMMUNITY FUNDIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE ROTARTY FOUNDATION: $4,101 · OtherWGA: $3,000 · OtherCITY OF HOPE: $3,000 · Other+47 more: $32,193 · Other+47 moreCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $16,151 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEP…WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION: $5,191 · Human ServicesWARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM …EPISCOPAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesEPISCOPAL CHILDREN'S SERVIC…The Comfort Cub Program Inc: $2,000 · Human ServicesThe Comfort Cub Program IncBRIGHT HOLIDAYS INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesBRIGHT HOLIDAYS INCBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $1,450 · Human Services+4 more: $1,370 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $2,575 · PhilanthropyRISING LEADERS OF NORTH FLORIDA INC: $5,990 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $90 · Recreation & SportsKIDSAVE INTERNATIONAL INC: $2,500 · InternationalAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $1,000 · InternationalAssistance League of Arcadia: $2,500 · Community ImprovementPINK RIBBON JAX INC: $1,500 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC: $300 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $260 · Health
Other$84,294Human Services$33,162Philanthropy$7,575Recreation & Sports$6,080International$3,500Community Improvement$2,500Health$2,060

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $16,151 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRISING LEADERS OF NORTH FLORIDA INC: $5,990 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION: $5,191 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEPISCOPAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $2,575 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetKIDSAVE INTERNATIONAL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAssistance League of Arcadia: $2,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetThe Comfort Cub Program Inc: $2,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBRIGHT HOLIDAYS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPOSSABILITIES PLUS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $1,450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOLDEN HEART RANCH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS HEART OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTING THRU MUSIC INC: $560 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY IRVINE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $260 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBallyneal Foundation: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGENERATEHOPE INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUKULELE KIDS CLUB INC: $150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIRACLE FLIGHTS: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budget1971 GHS FOOTBALL MEMORIAL FOUND: $100 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY CAMPERSHIP COUNCIL INC: $90 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPECTRUM THRIFT STORE INC: $70 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds RISING LEADERS OF NORTH FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION ↗
  • Who funds EPISCOPAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds KIDSAVE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Assistance League of Arcadia ↗
  • Who funds The Comfort Cub Program Inc ↗
  • Who funds BRIGHT HOLIDAYS INC ↗
  • Who funds POSSABILITIES PLUS INC ↗
  • Who funds PINK RIBBON JAX INC ↗
  • Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
  • Who funds AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC ↗
  • Who funds GOLDEN HEART RANCH ↗

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 Community Foundation for Northeast Florida IncFL15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation Inc · The San Diego Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving 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 Mark and Karla Stuart Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mark and Karla Stuart Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 42%
  • Episcopal Children's Services Inc: 42% of income from government
  • Possabilities Plus Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

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 74 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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