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Sbk Stearns Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOLIDAY HOME C | $125,000 |
| GENEVA LAKE CONSERVANCY | $50,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $25,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF FED OF A | $25,000 |
| OCEAN CONSERVANCY | $25,000 |
| THE CONTRIBUTOR | $25,000 |
| SHELBURNE FARMS | $10,000 |
| TUCSON GIRLS CHORUS ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC | $5,000 |
| THE BRIDGE FOOD DIAPER BA | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| KEEPING THE FAITH CHARITY | $2,500 |
| LAKELAND ANIMAL SHELTER | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
18 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
SHELBURNE FARMS6× · 2020–2025 · $290k · revenue +257%- TGTucson Girls Chorus Association Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $130k · revenue +66%
- OCOCEAN CONSERVANCY5× · 2020–2025 · $130k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- GLGENEVA LAKE MUSEUM INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +75% · 30% of their budget
- ILIMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $50k
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOODone grant, 2020 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Weconservepa helps people protect, wisely use, and enjoy what nature offers. we advocate for pro-conservation, life sustaining government policy. we assist individuals and organizations in conserving natural areas, farms, forests, parks,…
Gathering waters (wisconsin's alliance for land trusts) strengthens land trusts to protect wisconsin's special places and grow healthy, vibrant communities. the stronger the alliance between gathering waters' staff and board members, land…
To gather and share quality food and nurture partnerships so that no one in vermont will go hungry.
To protect, conserve, and enhance wisconsin's natural resources by advocating for and supporting county conservation efforts, for current and future generations.
The mission of walloon lake association and conservancy is to conserve, care for and enhance the connection of people to walloon lake and its watershed now, and forever.
Vermont woodlands association's (vwa) mission is to educate and advocate for the practices of productive stewardship, use, and enjoyment of vermont's woodlands. we achieve this mission by delivering educational programs and technical…
Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.
Glacial Lakes Conservancy, as a land trust, is a nonprofit organization that, as part of its mission, actively works to conserve land by undertaking or assisting in land or conservation easement acquisitions.
Conservation minnesota's mission is to turn our shared conservation values into state priorities and provide you with the information you need to make decisions for your family, community and future.
Safeguard green lake by improving its water quality, protecting it from critical threats, and accelerating its return to a clean lake.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lake Geneva Fresh Air Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Therapeutic Riding of Tucson Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 42 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SHELBURNE FARMS ↗
- Who funds Therapeutic Riding of Tucson Inc ↗
- Who funds Tucson Girls Chorus Association Inc ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds GENEVA LAKE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds GENEVA LAKE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE GENEVA FRESH AIR ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONTRIBUTOR INC ↗
- Who funds Lakewood WWV Camp Inc ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE GENEVA FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD ARIZONA INC ↗
- Who funds HowardCenter Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTRY ANIMAL LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KISHWAUKETOE ↗
- Who funds WALWORTH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds PATRONATO SAN XAVIER ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO KEEPING THE FAITH CHARITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOBILE MEALS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The David & Colleen Anderson Charitable Foundation · John & Linda Anderson Charitable Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · A G Cox Charity Trust Xxxxx9001 · The Anna Emery Hanson Charitable Foundation 1 · Alben F & Clara G Bates Foundation · Tom & Donna Neshek Family Foundation · Otzen Family Foundation Incorporated · Keefe Foundation Inc · The Griffith Family Foundation · The Tenzer Family Foundation · The John a Miller Family Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Sbk Stearns Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- HowardCenter Inc — 8% of income from government
- Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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