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Stable Road 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
- $250k+1 grant · $317k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Global Empowerment Mission Inc | $317,218 |
| REDFORD CENTER INC | $65,000 |
| IMUA FAMILY SERVICES | $50,000 |
| MAUI HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| WOMEN UNITED FOR ANIMAL WELFARE | $10,000 |
| Friends of Childrens Justice Center of Maui | $10,000 |
| USC Verdugo Hills Hospital Foundation | $8,500 |
| Evelyn Swierczynski Foundation | $5,000 |
| PACIFIC CANCER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HUNT FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| SUMMIT 54 | $5,000 |
| Institute for Education Research and Scholarship | $1,500 |
| DOLPHINS CYCLING CHALLENGE INC | $1,025 |
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 (FY19–23, $392k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 6% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of Stable Road Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
36 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 27 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k 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
- GFGIVEPOWER FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2023 · $357k · revenue +122%
- TBTHE BUDDY PROGRAM INC6× · 2019–2024 · $123k · revenue +52%
- IFIMUA FAMILY SERVICES6× · 2020–2025 · $115k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- GOGift of Lifeone grant, 2023 · $15k
- CCCHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $13k
- LRLIFE ROLLS ON FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $11k · revenue -9%
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.
To unite donors' passions with the university of hawai'i's (uh) aspirations by raising philanthropic support and managing investments to benefit uh, the people of hawai'i and our future generations.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
To foster international cultural awareness and understanding through the medium of film. to act as a creative pipeline for hawaii and the pacific, showcasing new and emerging talent from hawaii, asia, americas, europe, and the pacific…
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
To address, educate, coordinate, and enhance enforcement capacity to end teh trade in coral reef wildlife for household and other small display aquariums. our supply and demand side strategies are directed locally and globally to…
Poptech's mission is to accelerate the positive impact of world-changing people, projects and ideas. founded in 1996 by bob metcalfe (inventor, ethernet) and john sculley (apple, pepsi), poptech originally provided a forum to critically…
See schedule o.at honolulu waldorf school, we educate each child to find meaning, passion, and purpose in life and to contribute to the creation of a better world for all. through a curriculum based on the developmental stages of the human…
The pacific american foundation is dedicated to improving the lives of pacific americans by educating and informing decision makers and leaders at all levels on the vital policy areas for americans who trace their ancestry to the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Makai Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Aspen Homeless Shelter. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
90 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. 90 of the 101 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 GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds GIVEPOWER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CREATE CURES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BUDDY PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds IMUA FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds REDFORD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MAUI HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds USC VERDUGO HILLS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUFFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT54 ↗
- Who funds HAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE HUNT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN UNITED FOR ANIMAL WELFARE ↗
- Who funds KITECHILD ↗
- Who funds MIGHTY WRITERS ↗
- Who funds ARDEN THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THERASURF ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA JEWISH FILM AND MEDIA ↗
- Who funds LIFE ROLLS ON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds HALE MAKUA HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds UHIWAI O HALEAKALA ↗
- Who funds Love the Sea ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN CLASS COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds IAN WALSH MENEHUNE MAYHEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds MUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC ↗
- Who funds Neshama Center ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds YOUTH TECHNOLOGY CORPS NFP INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION ↗
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 Roy H and Lorraine M Okumura Foundation · Fred Baldwin Memorial Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Aspen Community Foundation · Bendon Family Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Martin Family Foundation · The O L Moore Foundation · The Red Cabin Foundation Trust · The Strong Foundation · Atherton Family Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc
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 Stable Road 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.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Mystic & Noank Library Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Global Empowerment Mission Inc — 0% 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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