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Robin and Sandy 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.

$768k
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$114k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$514kPublic Benefit$495kEducation$390kEnvironment$286kReligion$197kCivil Rights$170kHuman Services$96kCommunity Improvement$95kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $344k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $399k
$17,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Gorton Community Center$114,000
Heterodox Academy$75,000
The Nature Conservancy of South Carolina$60,000
Chicago Abortion Foundation$50,000
Council of Independent Colleges$50,000
Ragdale Foundation$50,000
Future Caucus$45,000
History Society of Lake Forest Lake Bluff$42,000
James Madison Program$40,000
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education$40,000
Episcopal Church of Nashville$35,000
Institute of Politics at University of Chicago$30,000
Savannah Music Festival$25,000
Allies for Community Business$20,000
Elawa Farm Foundation$17,000
02The need
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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 (FY18–25, $210k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Mixteca: $1k → 20%Gorton Community Center: $114k → 8%Gorton Community Center: $20k → 8%Gorton Community Center: $20k → 8%Gorton Community Center: $20k → 8%Gorton Community Center: $10k → 8%Gorton Community Center: $10k → 8%Gorton Community Center: $10k → 8%Gorton Community Center: $5k → 8%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

MT
IL
NY
WY
PA
NJ
CO
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 30 repeat orgs$140k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
16

Total granted

$3.0M
$111k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+11%

Still filing today

63%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationPublic BenefitHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • HA
    HETERODOX ACADEMY
    8× · 2018–2025 · $295k · revenue ×14
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $210k · revenue +217%
  • GC
    Gorton Community Center
    8× · 2018–2025 · $209k · revenue +164%

Funded once

  • PU
    Princeton University Art Museum
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • CC
    CHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • Hermann Park Conservancygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +82%
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.

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Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
2
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
3
National Tropical Botanical Garden

To enrich life by perpetuating tropical plants, ecosystems and cultural heritage through discovery, scientific research, conservation, and education.

Environment
4
American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit
5
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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6
African Parks Foundation of America

To engage the united states and its citizens in the work of african parks and to promote access to american experience and expertise in the african parks actiities by 1) raising funds for specific projects, activities, training, equipment…

Recreation & Sports
7
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
8
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
9
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.

Animals
10
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
11
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
12
Museum of American Finance

Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. 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

33 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. 33 of the 53 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
20/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Episcopal Church of Nashville: $232,000 · OtherEpiscopal Church of NashvilleInstitute of Politics at University of Chicago: $190,000 · OtherInstitute of Politics at University of ChicagoJames Madison Program: $155,000 · OtherJames Madison ProgramTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $116,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYCOUNCIL OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $100,000 · OtherCOUNCIL OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGESChicago Abortion Foundation: $95,000 · OtherChicago Abortion FoundationHistory Society of Lake Forest Lake Bluff: $84,000 · OtherHistory Society of Lake Forest Lake BluffBuffalo Bill Center of the West: $80,000 · OtherMILLENNIUM PARK FOUNDATION: $90,000 · OtherMILLENNIUM PARK FOUNDATIONALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS INC: $80,000 · OtherREADING POWER INC: $75,000 · Other+20 more: $256,500 · Other+20 moreRagdale Foundation: $200,000 · Arts & CultureRagdale Foundati…SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVALINC: $190,000 · Arts & CultureSAVANNAH MUSIC F…THE AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM: $65,415 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN WRI…ELAWA FARM FOUNDATION: $17,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $16,000 · Arts & CultureHETERODOX ACADEMY: $295,000 · EducationHETERODOX …ACADEMY FOR URBAN SCHOOL LEADERSHIP: $15,000 · Education+1 more: $2,500 · EducationTHE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA: $102,000 · EnvironmentYELLOWSTONE FOREVER: $65,000 · EnvironmentLAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION: $42,000 · EnvironmentGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION: $35,000 · EnvironmentHermann Park Conservancy: $15,000 · Environment+1 more: $500 · EnvironmentMILLENNIAL ACTION PROJECT DBA FUTURE CAUCUS: $180,000 · Public BenefitBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC: $65,000 · Public BenefitGOVERN FOR AMERICA INC: $10,000 · Public BenefitFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $210,000 · Civil RightsGorton Community Center: $209,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$1,553,500Arts & Culture$488,415Education$312,500Environment$259,500Public Benefit$255,000Civil Rights$210,000Human Services$210,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHETERODOX ACADEMY: $295,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $210,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetGorton Community Center: $209,000 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetRagdale Foundation: $200,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetSAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVALINC: $190,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetMILLENNIAL ACTION PROJECT DBA FUTURE CAUCUS: $180,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $116,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA: $102,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetCOUNCIL OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMILLENNIUM PARK FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetREADING POWER INC: $75,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM: $65,415 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC: $65,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYELLOWSTONE FOREVER: $65,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S BAKERY INC: $50,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetLAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION: $42,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION: $35,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHermann Park Conservancy: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetACADEMY FOR URBAN SCHOOL LEADERSHIP: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCAN ART CHANGE THE WORLD INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGOVERN FOR AMERICA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWriters Theatre Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNURTURING MINDS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRINCETON IN AFRICA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMIXTECA ORGANIZATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHINATI FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Botanic Garden: $500 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.

  • Who funds HETERODOX ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC ↗
  • Who funds Gorton Community Center ↗
  • Who funds Ragdale Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVALINC ↗
  • Who funds MILLENNIAL ACTION PROJECT DBA FUTURE CAUCUS ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds COUNCIL OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES ↗
  • Who funds MILLENNIUM PARK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS INC ↗
  • Who funds READING POWER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds BIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds YELLOWSTONE FOREVER ↗
  • Who funds THE WOMEN'S BAKERY INC ↗
  • Who funds LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds GREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION ↗
  • Who funds ELAWA FARM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Hermann Park Conservancy ↗
  • Who funds ACADEMY FOR URBAN SCHOOL LEADERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds CAN ART CHANGE THE WORLD INC ↗
  • Who funds GOVERN FOR AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗
  • Who funds GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY 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.

The Chicago Community…John and Kathleen Sch…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Renaissance Charitabl…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…
The Chicago Community TrustIL16.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Robin and Sandy Stuart Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robin and Sandy Stuart Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Robin and Sandy Stuart Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Robin and Sandy Stuart Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 53 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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