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Richard & Anne Stirlen Private Foundation at a glance

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Richard & Anne Stirlen Private 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.

$34k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Animals$83kEducation$1k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$4,700
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SECOND CHANCE PUPPIES AND KITTENS RESCUE$10,000
NEW FAIRFIELDSHERMAN ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC$6,000
HORSE PLUS HUMANE SOCIETY$5,000
THE FOUNDATION FOR THE HORSE$4,700
HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL HORSE SANCTUARY$3,000
CORNELL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE$2,350
CUMMINGS SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE AT TUFTS UNIVERSITY$1,293
UF COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE$1,175
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 (FY23–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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%THE FOUNDATION FOR THE HORSE: $20k → 15%THE FOUNDATION FOR THE HORSE: $5k → 15%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.
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$64k · 5 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +90% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
4

Total granted

$64k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+90%
0%

Still filing today

60%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TF
    THE FOUNDATION FOR THE HORSE FKA THE AAEP FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $25k · revenue +9%
  • NF
    NEW FAIRFIELD SHERMAN ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INCORPORATED
    8× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +240%
  • CW
    Centre Wildlife Care
    6× · 2017–2022 · $4k · revenue +90%

Funded once

  • AS
    A SECOND CHANCE PUPPIES AND KITTENS RESCUE
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • HP
    HORSE PLUS HUMANE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -25%
  • HS
    HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL HORSE SANCTUARY
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
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
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 10 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
3/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW FAIRFIELD SHERMAN ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INCORPORATED: $13,480 · AnimalsNEW FAIRFIELD SHERMAN ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY…A SECOND CHANCE PUPPIES AND KITTENS RESCUE: $10,000 · AnimalsA SECOND CHANCE PUPPIES AND KITTENS RESCUEHORSE PLUS HUMANE SOCIETY: $5,000 · AnimalsHORSE PLUS HUMANE SOCIETYCentre Wildlife Care: $4,480 · AnimalsCentre Wildlife CareCORNELL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE: $15,830 · OtherCORNELL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF VETE…CUMMINGS SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE AT TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $5,773 · OtherCUMMINGS SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDI…HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL HORSE SANCTUARY: $3,000 · OtherHOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL HORSE SANCTUA…UF COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE: $1,175 · OtherTHE FOUNDATION FOR THE HORSE FKA THE AAEP FOUNDATION INC: $24,700 · Human ServicesTHE FOUNDATION FOR THE HORSE FKA …CORNELL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Education
Animals$32,960Other$25,778Human Services$24,700Education$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR THE HORSE FKA THE AAEP FOUNDATION INC: $24,700 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNEW FAIRFIELD SHERMAN ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INCORPORATED: $13,480 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetA SECOND CHANCE PUPPIES AND KITTENS RESCUE: $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetHORSE PLUS HUMANE SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCentre Wildlife Care: $4,480 over 6y, 0.9% 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 THE FOUNDATION FOR THE HORSE FKA THE AAEP FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW FAIRFIELD SHERMAN ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds A SECOND CHANCE PUPPIES AND KITTENS RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds HORSE PLUS HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Centre Wildlife Care ↗
  • Who funds CORNELL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Paypal Charitable Giv…The Pfizer Foundation…Network for GoodFidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Paypal Charitable Giving FundDC12× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · 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 Richard & Anne Stirlen Private Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard & Anne Stirlen Private Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 10 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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