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Stachestrong Inc

Stachestrong's purpose is to support brain cancer research.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$897k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$4.9MEducation$50k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k4 grants · $300k
  • $250k+1 grant · $897k
$100,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
V FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH$896,896
AMERICAN BRAIN TUMOR ASSOCIATION$100,000
NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY$100,000
HEALTH RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SYLVESTER COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTE$50,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 61% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%IVY BRAIN TUMOR CENTER: $150k → 11%NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY: $100k → 8%BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $100k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $65k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $65k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $125k → 14%FEINSTEIN INSTITUTE FOR MEDICINE RESEARCH: $50k → 6%WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVSERSITY: $40k → 17%THE UT MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $100k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SYLVESTER COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTE: $50k → 15%HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $65k → 21%V FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $897k → 8%DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM: $149k → 11%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $65k → 14%NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY: $100k → 8%HARVARD UNIVERSITY BIDMC: $35k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $50k → 11%AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $66k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $75k → 14%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $25k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $698k → 15%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $100k → 11%NEUROSURGERY RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY: $50k → 8%AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $60k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $96k → 14%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $65k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $250k → 15%HEALTH RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC: $50k → 11%NEUROSURGERY RESEARCH & EDUCATION: $50k → 14%NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY: $50k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $25k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $165k → 15%NEUROSURGERY RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $10k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $50k → 14%THE SOCIETY OF NEUROLOGICAL SURGEONS: $110k → 14%THE SOCIETY OF NEUROLOGICAL SURGEONS: $55k → 14%AMERICAN BRAIN TUMOR ASSOCIATION: $100k → 14%AMERICAN BRAIN TUMOR ASSOCIATION: $100k → 14%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

IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
CA
NE
AZ
NC
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 10 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
14

Total granted

$2.9M
$879k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+22%

Still filing today

80%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $947k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationRecreation & SportsMembership 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

  • UO
    University of Miami
    4× · 2021–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +48%
  • NB
    NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $300k · revenue +48%
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $249k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • BN
    BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue -31%
  • UA
    UTMD ANDERSON
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • BA
    BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
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
Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…

Health
5
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
6
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
7
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
8
New York Society for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled Maintaining the

The mission of hospital for special surgery is to provide the highest quality patient care, improve mobility, and enhance the quality of life for all and to advance the science of orthopedic surgery, rheumatology, and their related…

Health
9
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
10
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
11
Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

The society is a multidisciplinary professional medical organization dedicated to improving human health by advancing nuclear medicine, molecular imaging and radionuclide therapy.

Health
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Barrow Neurological Foundation; the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. 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

19 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. 19 of the 28 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
13/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE V FOUNDATION: $896,896 · HealthTHE V FOUNDATIONDUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $248,620 · HealthDUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INCNEUROSURGERY RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $200,000 · HealthNEUROSURGERY RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDA…BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $150,000 · HealthBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATIONAmerican Association for Cancer Research Inc: $126,000 · HealthAmerican Association for Cancer Research I…HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $65,000 · HealthNebraska Medicine: $63,250 · Health+2 more: $100,000 · Health+2 moreUniversity of Miami: $1,172,151 · EducationUniversity of MiamiTHE SOCIETY OF NEUROLOGICAL SURGEONS: $165,000 · EducationTHE SOCIETY OF NEUROLOGICAL SURGEONSUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $96,407 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIATRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $65,431 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $65,000 · Education+1 more: $50,000 · EducationNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC: $300,000 · OtherNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY…REGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA: $225,000 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIAAmerican Brain Tumor Association: $200,000 · OtherAmerican Brain Tumor Associa…UPMC: $115,000 · OtherUPMCUTMD ANDERSON: $100,000 · OtherUTMD ANDERSONBRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $100,000 · OtherBRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITALTHE UT HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT HOUSTON: $60,579 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: $50,000 · Other+3 more: $100,023 · Other+3 moreNorthwestern University: $165,000 · Recreation & SportsNY PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CTRNYSNA RETIREE MEDIC AL PLAN TRUST: $25,000 · Membership Benefit
Health$1,849,766Education$1,613,989Other$1,250,602Recreation & Sports$165,000Membership Benefit$25,000

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 budgetUniversity of Miami: $1,172,151 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION: $896,896 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC: $300,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $248,620 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEUROSURGERY RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetAmerican Brain Tumor Association: $200,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetNorthwestern University: $165,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF NEUROLOGICAL SURGEONS: $165,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Association for Cancer Research Inc: $126,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $96,407 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $65,431 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $65,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $65,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNebraska Medicine: $63,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNY PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CTRNYSNA RETIREE MEDIC AL PLAN TRUST: $25,000 over 1y, 3.7% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Stachestrong Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stachestrong Inc. 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%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 Stachestrong Inc?

Find your warmest path to Stachestrong Inc 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 28 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 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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