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Maxwell Lide Stanback Foundation Inc at a glance

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Maxwell Lide Stanback Foundation Inc

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.

$5k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2022.

Education$65kEnvironment$33kInternational$22kHealth$7kReligion$7kAnimals$6kOther$0
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRINITY EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL$5,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%AMERICAN REFUGEE COMMITTEE: $5k → 11%WINDWARD SCHOOL: $50k → 9%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE: $5k → 17%TRINITY EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL: $5k → 16%HEIFER INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 17%GREENPEACE ORG: $5k → 14%WAYSIDE WAIFS: $5k → 15%SAVE THE SOUND: $10k → 12%NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL FOUNDATION: $1k → 12%AUDUBON-NORTH CAROLINA: $1k → 13%SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $5k → 8%OPERATION SMILE: $2k → 10%WINDWARD SCHOOL: $5k → 9%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE: $5k → 17%HEIFER INTERNATIONAL: $2k → 17%GREENPEACEORG: $1k → 14%SAVE THE SOUND: $5k → 12%NC COASTAL FEDERATION: $1k → 12%SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $5k → 8%WINDWARD SCHOOL: $5k → 9%SAVE THE SOUND: $5k → 12%WINDWARD SCHOOL: $5k → 9%LARCHMONT AVENUE CHURCH: $1k → 9%LARCHMONT AVENUE CHURCH: $1k → 9%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

MN
NY
CT
MO
VA
MD
AR
NC
SC
DC
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$120k · 7 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2022, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
7

Total granted

$120k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+33%

Still filing today

57%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22
InternationalEnvironmentEducationAnimalsOther
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

  • THE WINDWARD SCHOOL
    4× · 2017–2021 · $65k · revenue +63%
  • ST
    SAVE THE SOUND
    3× · 2018–2021 · $20k · revenue +63%
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    2× · 2017–2021 · $10k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • WW
    WAYSIDE WAIFS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -3%
  • MS
    MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CTR
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • A
    ALIGHTgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +33%
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
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
Conservation International Foundation

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

Environment
3
The International Dark-Sky Association Inc

Darksky international restores the nighttime environment and protects communities from the harmful effects of light pollution through outreach, advocacy, and conservation.

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4
Wildaid Inc

Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.

Animals
5
Earth & Space Research

Increase societal understanding of the earth system through scientific research and education.

Science & Tech
6
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc

We safeguard the earth: its people, its plants and animals, and (see schedule o) the natural systems on which all life depends. we work to restore the integrity of the elements that sustain life - air, land, and water - to defend…

Environment
7
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
8
African Wildlife Foundation Inc

Awf's mission is to ensure wildlife and wild lands thrive in modern africa. we work to equip african governments, institutions, business, and communities with the tools, insights, and support they need to define, own, and realize a…

Animals
9
The Wildlife Society

The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.

Animals
10
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
11
The Quebec-Labrador Foundation Inc

The program mission of the quebec-labrador foundation u.s. is defined by a regional component (new england and eastern canada), and an international component, which ties our regional model to a global conservation network. qlf's program…

Philanthropy
12
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alight; 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.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE WINDWARD SCHOOL: $65,000 · EducationTHE WINDWARD SCHOOLSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $10,000 · OtherSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW C…HEIFER INTERNATIONAL: $7,000 · OtherHEIFER INTERNATIONALIndividual grant recipient: $6,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTRINITY EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL: $5,000 · OtherTRINITY EPISCOPAL CATHEDRALMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CTR: $5,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CAN…LARCHMONT AVENUE CHURCH: $2,000 · OtherLARCHMONT AVENUE CHURCH+2 more: $2,000 · Other+2 moreSAVE THE SOUND: $20,177 · EnvironmentSAVE THE SOUNDNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentInternational Rescue Committee INC: $10,000 · InternationalInternational…ALIGHT: $5,000 · InternationalALIGHTOPERATION SMILE INC: $2,000 · InternationalOPERATION SMI…WAYSIDE WAIFS INC: $5,000 · Animals
Education$65,000Other$37,000Environment$21,177International$17,000Animals$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE WINDWARD SCHOOL: $65,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSAVE THE SOUND: $20,177 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWAYSIDE WAIFS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALIGHT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA COASTAL FEDERATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Maxwell Lide Stanback Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maxwell Lide Stanback Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 37%
  • Save the Sound: 37% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely 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.

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 15 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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