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Robert J Stillwell Foundation Trust

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.

$65k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$15k
Largest
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 2025.

Food & Nutrition$183kEducation$78kYouth Development$76kArts & Culture$71kRecreation & Sports$43kReligion$18kHuman Services$17kHousing & Shelter$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $44k
$8,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$712k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONCERNED CITIZENS WHITESBORO NJ CAMP UNITY$15,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF COLLIER COUNTY$15,000
PLYMOUTH AREA COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS$14,385
MIDDLE TOWNSHIP POLICE FUND$8,000
WOMANADE AT THE PINEHILLS$6,000
CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF CAPE MAY COUNTY$6,000
DEVRY UNIVERSITY$1,049
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, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOMANADE AT THE PINEHILLS: $6k → 8%CENTRO DE CULTURA ARTE TRABAJO Y EDUCACION: $15k → 7%CENTRO DE CULTURA ARTE TRABAJO Y EDUCACION: $15k → 7%CENTRO DE CULTURA ARTE TRABAJO Y EDUCACION: $15k → 7%CENTRO DE CULTURA ARTE TRABAJO Y EDUCACION: $10k → 7%CENTRO DE CULTURA ARTE TRABAJO Y EDUCACION: $10k → 7%CENTRO DE CULTURA ARTE TRABAJO Y EDUCATION: $6k → 7%OPTIONS IN AGING DBA NEW HORIZONS SENIOR CENTER: $11k → 7%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 23% of Robert J Stillwell Foundation Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 44% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 30%.

Robert J Stillwell Foundation Trustlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.0% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$461k · 8 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +82% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
4

Total granted

$461k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+82%
+4%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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 ServicesFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COLLIER COUNTY FLOR
    6× · 2020–2025 · $76k · revenue +82%
  • CD
    CENTRO DE CULTURA ARTE TRABAJO Y EDUCACION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $71k · revenue +327%
  • TF
    THE FOOD TRUST
    5× · 2017–2021 · $65k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • OI
    OPTIONS IN AGING
    one grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue +4%
  • AF
    Acadia Family Center
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue -99%
  • TD
    THE DEPAUL CATHOLIC
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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
Maine Children's Home for Little Wanderers

To build and strengthen families and their children, instilling hope for the future and a better quality of life.

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2
Philadelphia Council for Community Advancement

Pcca's mission is to strengthen households and communities by developing and preserving homeownership and affordable housing, and educating consumers to increase accessability to economic opportunities.

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3
Community Action Committee of Cape Cod & Islands Inc

Provide resources and skills to individuals and families in the cape and islands to attain and retain independence and economic stability and self-sufficiency through personal growth, family stabilization, life skills and employment…

Community Improvement
4
Children's Advocacy Center of Southwest Florida Inc

Since 1981, children's advocacy center of southwest florida, inc. (cac) has advocated for a healthy, safe community for children through a multidisciplinary team approach to child abuse and neglect. our mission is to create a safe and…

Human Services
5
Penobscot Community Health Center

Penobscot Community Health Center (PCHC) is a non-profit organization incorporated in 1997 that is governed by a Board of community volunteers and is the largest Federally Qualified Health Center in Maine. PCHC is driven by its mission…

Health
6
Cape Cod Healthcare Inc

Cape cod healthcare, the leading provider of healthcare services on cape cod, coordinates and delivers the highest quality, accessible health services which enhance the health of all cape cod residents and visitors. the mission of cape cod…

Health
7
Ch Pennsylvania Under - 21

Our mission is to serve children and youth facing homelessness and human trafficking, and to protect and safeguard all children. we provide trauma-informed interventions for youth who are in need.covenant house pennsylvania (chpa) remains…

Housing & Shelter
8
Safe Children Coalition Inc

The safe children coalition's mission is to protect children and youth, strengthen families, and build community.

Human Services
9
Turning Points for Children

To nurture families with children who are struggling against economic and environmental odds, giving them the critical resources, life skills and supportive partnerships to create stronger families and raise children with hope for a…

Human Services
10
Family Promise of the Coastal Empire Inc

Family promise of the coastal empire, inc. is a nonprofit organization committed to empowering low income families with achieving lasting self sufficiency and independence, by providing short-term housing, meals, and family-centered…

Human Services
11
The Opportunity Alliance

To build better lives and stronger communities across Maine, The Opportunity Alliance supports people with the programs and resources they need to improve their health, safety, and stability.

Human Services
12
Family Promise of Cape May County

To provide shelter, meals and case management for homeless families, as well as aiding the families in finding a home , family services and training.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Plymouth Area Coalition for the Homeless; the most unlike its peers is The Food Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 14 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONCERNED CITIZENS WHITESBORO NJ CAMP UNITY: $118,000 · OtherCONCERNED CITIZENS WHITESBORO NJ CAMP UNITYKUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY: $62,075 · OtherKUTZTOWN UNIVERSITYMIDDLE TOWNSHIP POLICE FUND: $43,000 · OtherMIDDLE TOWNSHIP POLICE FUNDTHE CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF CAPE MAY: $18,000 · OtherTHE CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF CAPE MAY+4 more: $22,079 · Other+4 moreCENTRO DE CULTURA ARTE TRABAJO Y EDUCACION: $70,500 · Human ServicesCENTRO DE CULTURA A…OPTIONS IN AGING: $11,000 · Human ServicesOPTIONS IN AGINGWomanade at The Pinehills Inc co Stonebridge Club: $6,000 · Human ServicesWomanade at The Pin…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COLLIER COUNTY FLOR: $76,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB…THE FOOD TRUST: $65,000 · Food & NutritionTHE FOOD TRUSTPLYMOUTH AREA COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $14,385 · Housing & Shelter
Other$263,154Human Services$87,500Youth Development$76,000Food & Nutrition$65,000Housing & Shelter$14,385

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COLLIER COUNTY FLOR: $76,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRO DE CULTURA ARTE TRABAJO Y EDUCACION: $70,500 over 6y, 8.1% of budgetTHE FOOD TRUST: $65,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF CAPE MAY: $18,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetPLYMOUTH AREA COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $14,385 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOPTIONS IN AGING: $11,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetAcadia Family Center: $6,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWomanade at The Pinehills Inc co Stonebridge Club: $6,000 over 1y, 8.0% 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COLLIER COUNTY FLOR ↗
  • Who funds CENTRO DE CULTURA ARTE TRABAJO Y EDUCACION ↗
  • Who funds THE FOOD TRUST ↗
  • Who funds THE CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF CAPE MAY ↗
  • Who funds PLYMOUTH AREA COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
  • Who funds OPTIONS IN AGING ↗
  • Who funds Acadia Family Center ↗
  • Who funds Womanade at The Pinehills Inc co Stonebridge Club ↗

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.

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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 Robert J Stillwell Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert J Stillwell Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 14 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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