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Rod Stiefvater 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.

$500
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$500
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$40kHuman Services$25kEducation$20kHousing & Shelter$15kCrime & Legal$10kReligion$10kEmployment$6kCommunity Improvement$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
1
States reached
$11k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE WILDLANDS CONSERVANCY - WIND WOLVES PRESERVE$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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%GUADALUPE CENTERS INC: $5k → 15%ST VINCENT DE PAUL STORE INC: $5k → 18%FLOOD BAKERSFIELD MINISTRIES: $5k → 18%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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 6% of Rod Stiefvater Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 73% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 66%.

Rod Stiefvater Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.8% 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.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$71k · 5 repeat orgs$77k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
14

Total granted

$71k
$77k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
0%

Still filing today

60%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’22’24’25
Human ServicesHealthCrime & LegalEducationHousing & ShelterPublic BenefitOther
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

  • AK
    AdventHealth Kansas City Foundation
    2× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue -58%
  • TU
    THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +44%
  • BS
    BETHANY SERVICES INC
    2× · 2021–2024 · $10k · revenue -6%

Funded once

  • KT
    KEEPERS TRANSFORMATION HOUSE
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • OK
    OLIVE KNOLLS CHURCH-NAZARENE
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • CS
    CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO
    one grant, 2020 · $6k
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
Inner City Law Center

In 2024, Inner City Law Center, ICLC, served over 3,400 people, helping vulnerable Angelenos to remain in their homes and recover nearly $20.5 million in financial benefits.

Crime & Legal
2
Central California Food Bank

Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…

Food & Nutrition
3
Central California Legal Services Inc

Central california legal services is a private, not-for-profit, public interest law firm established for the purpose of providing free civil legal assistance to low-income individuals, families, organizations and communities.

Crime & Legal
4
United Way of Central Eastern California Dba United Way of Kern County

The mission of the united way of kern county is to "mobilize donors, advocates and volunteers to improve lives in kern county." the organization accomplishes this by raising and investing financial resources in programs that advance the…

Philanthropy
5
West Valley Community Services of Santa Clara County Inc

Our mission is to unite the community to fight hunger and homelessness. our vision is a community where every person has food on the table and every person has a roof over their head.

Housing & Shelter
6
Community Legal Aid Socal

To provide civil legal services to low-income individuals and to promote equal access to the justice system through advocacy, legal counseling, innovative self-help services, in depth legal representation, community education, and economic…

Crime & Legal
7
Central California Family Crisis Center

The Organization provides shelter, meals, clothing and counseling for victims of domestic violence, housing crisis, and/or poverty.

Human Services
8
La Luz Center

Strengthen community through family services, economic advancement, and community engagement. our vision is: one sonoma valley community working together where all have equal opportunity to succeed.

Human Services
9
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank

The organization's mission is to mobilize resources to fight hunger in our community. to fulfill its mission, the food bank:* sources and acquires nutritious food and other products and distribute them to people experiencing nutrition…

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10
California Budget & Policy Center

The budget center provides dependable, timely, policy guidance and public education through our independent research and analysis, public education, strategic collaborations, and communications to expand economic opportunities and promote…

Education
11
Sunnyvale Community Services

The mission of sunnyvale community services is to prevent homelessness and hunger for low-income sunnyvale residents facing temporary crises.

Human Services
12
Community Action Partnership of San Bernardino County

Working in partnership with san bernardino county communities to support low-income residents in achieving self-sufficiency.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Rural Legal Assistance Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Wildlands Conservancy. 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

12 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. 12 of the 19 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
5/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BETHANY SERVICES INC: $10,000 · OtherBETHANY SERVICES INCKEEPERS TRANSFORMATION HOUSE: $10,000 · OtherKEEPERS TRANSFORMATION HOUSEOLIVE KNOLLS CHURCH-NAZARENE: $10,000 · OtherOLIVE KNOLLS CHURCH-NAZARENEIndividual grant recipient: $9,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO: $6,172 · OtherCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNOSANTA BARBARA STREET MEDICINE: $5,000 · OtherSANTA BARBARA STREET MEDICINEIndividual grant recipient: $3,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientYOUTH WITH A MISSION-SAN FRANCISCO: $3,000 · OtherYOUTH WITH A MISSION-SAN FRANCISCOAdventHealth Kansas City Foundation: $30,000 · HealthAdventHealth Kansas City F…ALONG COMES HOPE CORPORATION: $5,000 · HealthALONG COMES HOPE CORPORATI…THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationTHE UC DAVIS FO…FLOOD BAKERSFIELD MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesFLOOD BAKER…ST VINCENT DE PAUL CENTER OF BAKERSFIELD: $5,000 · Human ServicesST VINCENT …GUADALUPE CENTERS INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesGUADALUPE C…CALIFORNIA RURAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC: $5,000 · Crime & LegalLEGAL AID FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $5,000 · Crime & LegalCity Union Mission: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterWOMEN'S ECONOMIC VENTURES: $5,000 · Public BenefitThe Wildlands Conservancy: $2,050 · Environment
Other$56,172Health$35,000Education$20,000Human Services$15,000Crime & Legal$10,000Housing & Shelter$5,000Public Benefit$5,000Environment$2,050

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 budgetAdventHealth Kansas City Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBETHANY SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALONG COMES HOPE CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetFLOOD BAKERSFIELD MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL CENTER OF BAKERSFIELD: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCALIFORNIA RURAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUADALUPE CENTERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEGAL AID FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCity Union Mission: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S ECONOMIC VENTURES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Wildlands Conservancy: $2,050 over 4y, 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.

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.

Kern Community Founda…Enterprise Holdings F…Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Kern Community FoundationCA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kern Community Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Rod Stiefvater Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rod Stiefvater Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    0get 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Rod Stiefvater Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Rod Stiefvater 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 19 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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