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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.

$493k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$317k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

International$1.0MEnvironment$487kHealth$296kYouth Development$171kHuman Services$125kEducation$79kArts & Culture$74kReligion$43kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
  • $250k+1 grant · $317k
$8,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$999k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Global Empowerment Mission Inc$317,218
REDFORD CENTER INC$65,000
IMUA FAMILY SERVICES$50,000
WOMEN UNITED FOR ANIMAL WELFARE$10,000
Friends of Childrens Justice Center of Maui$10,000
MAUI HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
USC Verdugo Hills Hospital Foundation$8,500
HUNT FOUNDATION INC$5,000
Evelyn Swierczynski Foundation$5,000
PACIFIC CANCER FOUNDATION$5,000
SUMMIT 54$5,000
Institute for Education Research and Scholarship$1,500
DOLPHINS CYCLING CHALLENGE INC$1,025
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GIVEPOWER FOUNDATION: $253k → 7%THE OTHER ONES FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%Hoping Hearts Foundation Inc: $5k → 6%Givepower Foundation: $100k → 10%Youth Technology Corps NFP Inc: $7k → 14%GIVEPOWER FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%THE GERSHMAN Y: $4k → 22%DEEDLY INC: $5k → 15%MAUI FAMILY YMCA: $5k → 9%THE GERSHMAN Y: $6k → 22%THE GERSHMAN Y: $3k → 22%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

VT
WA
IL
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
DC
HI
LA
TX
FL
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 11% of Stable Road Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Stable Road Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 16% 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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 36 repeat orgs$356k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
56

Total granted

$2.1M
$283k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+32%

Still filing today

81%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentInternationalOther
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

  • GF
    GIVEPOWER FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2023 · $357k · revenue +122%
  • TB
    THE BUDDY PROGRAM INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $123k · revenue +52%
  • IF
    IMUA FAMILY SERVICES
    6× · 2020–2025 · $115k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • GO
    Gift of Life
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • CC
    CHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $13k
  • LR
    LIFE ROLLS ON FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $11k · revenue -9%
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
University of Hawaii Foundation

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.

Education
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
3
Hawaii International Film Festival

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
5
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
6
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
7
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
8
Project Drawdown

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;…

Education
9
For the Fishes

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…

Animals
10
The Poptech Institute

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…

Education
11
Mohala Pua School Dba Honolulu Waldorf School

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…

Education
12
Pacific American Foundation

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…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Makai Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

90 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. 90 of the 101 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
87/90
Grantees still filing
66/90
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC: $995,000 · Public Safety & DisasterGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INCGIVEPOWER FOUNDATION: $357,370 · Human ServicesGIVEPOWER FOUNDATI…+7 more: $47,721 · Human Services+7 moreCREATE CURES FOUNDATION: $126,000 · HealthCREATE CURES FOU…IMUA FAMILY SERVICES: $115,000 · HealthIMUA FAMILY SERV…MAUI HEALTH FOUNDATION: $40,000 · HealthMAUI HEALTH FOUN…USC VERDUGO HILLS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $28,500 · HealthUSC VERDUGO HILL…+9 more: $51,838 · Health+9 moreTHE BUDDY PROGRAM INC: $122,500 · OtherTHE BUDDY PROGRAM I…Friends of Childrens Justice Center of Maui: $15,000 · OtherYOUTH TECHNOLOGY CORPS INC: $15,000 · OtherGift of Life: $14,935 · OtherTHE HUNT FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · OtherWOMEN UNITED FOR ANIMAL WELFARE: $15,000 · OtherKITECHILD: $15,000 · Other+43 more: $203,993 · Other+43 moreREDFORD CENTER INC: $65,000 · EnvironmentHAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST: $15,150 · EnvironmentLove the Sea: $10,000 · EnvironmentUHIWAI O HALEAKALA: $10,000 · EnvironmentTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $6,500 · EnvironmentMALAMA KAHALAWAI INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentGuilford Land Conservation Trust Inc: $5,000 · Environment+1 more: $1,500 · EnvironmentSUFFIELD ACADEMY: $19,000 · EducationSUMMIT54: $15,500 · EducationMIGHTY WRITERS: $13,000 · EducationSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC: $5,000 · EducationThe George Washington University: $5,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $5,000 · EducationMYSTIC & NOANK LIBRARY INC: $5,000 · EducationROOM TO READ: $2,500 · Education+2 more: $2,500 · EducationARDEN THEATRE COMPANY: $13,000 · Arts & CultureMANHATTAN CLASS COMPANY INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC: $9,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER: $7,500 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $5,181 · Arts & CultureWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTRIBAL TRUST FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $3,000 · Arts & CultureSouthern Smoke Foundation: $2,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $1,906 · Arts & Culture
Public Safety & Disaster$995,000Human Services$405,091Health$361,338Other$416,428Environment$118,150Education$72,500Arts & Culture$62,087

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 budgetGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC: $995,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGIVEPOWER FOUNDATION: $357,370 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetCREATE CURES FOUNDATION: $126,000 over 5y, 9.4% of budgetTHE BUDDY PROGRAM INC: $122,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetIMUA FAMILY SERVICES: $115,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetMAUI HEALTH FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUSC VERDUGO HILLS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $28,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSUFFIELD ACADEMY: $19,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMIT54: $15,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetHAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST: $15,150 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HUNT FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 44% of budgetWOMEN UNITED FOR ANIMAL WELFARE: $15,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetKITECHILD: $15,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetMIGHTY WRITERS: $13,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetARDEN THEATRE COMPANY: $13,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHERASURF: $12,721 over 2y, 21% of budgetPHILADELPHIA JEWISH FILM AND MEDIA: $12,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetLIFE ROLLS ON FOUNDATION: $11,200 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC: $10,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHALE MAKUA HEALTH SERVICES: $10,113 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUHIWAI O HALEAKALA: $10,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetMANHATTAN CLASS COMPANY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIAN WALSH MENEHUNE MAYHEM FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNeshama Center: $8,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetNATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH TECHNOLOGY CORPS NFP INC: $7,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetASPEN YOUTH CENTER: $6,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetYOU CAN PLAY: $5,181 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHAWAII HOTEL INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $5,181 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $5,181 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $5,154 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $5,133 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $5,113 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMA KA HANA KA IKE BUILDING PROGRAM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMAUI FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHILARITY FOR CHARITY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHARING CONNEXION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% 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.

The Roy H and Lorrain…Fred Baldwin Memorial…Bank of Hawaii Charit…Aspen Community Found…Bendon Family Foundat…The Chicago Community…The Martin Family Fou…The O L Moore Foundat…The Red Cabin Foundat…The Strong FoundationAtherton Family Found…The Harry and Jeanett…
The Roy H and Lorraine M Okumura FoundationHI17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Stable Road Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stable Road Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
18report 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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Stable Road Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Stable Road 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 101 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home