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Stafford Family Foundation at a glance

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Stafford Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1k
Granted FY2022
4
Grants FY2022
3
States reached
$500
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Health$67kEducation$22kArts & Culture$15kPhilanthropy$13kHousing & Shelter$10kHuman Services$8kYouth Development$5kEnvironment$2kOther$0
02FY2022 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$250
Median grant
3
States reached
$154k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOUNDER FUND$500
COLLEGE POSSIBLE$250
COVENANT HOUSE$200
WALDORF SCHOOL$200
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 (FY17–22, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 23% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%COVENANT HOUSE: $200 → 13%COVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA: $100 → 13%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $250 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $250 → 14%AVOW HOSPICE: $1k → 10%AVOW HOSPICE: $1k → 10%MOORINGS PARK FOUNDATION: $500 → 10%GUADALUPE CENTER: $250 → 10%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

MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
KS
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$121k · 22 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2022, 19 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
25

Total granted

$121k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+26%

Still filing today

59%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther
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

  • AI
    ARTIS-NAPLES INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $13k · revenue +27%
  • CP
    COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC
    4× · 2017–2022 · $7k · revenue +79%
  • GC
    GETTYSBURG COLLEGE
    2× · 2019–2020 · $5k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • SYRACUSE UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +30%
  • W
    WGCU
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • MA
    MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
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
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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2
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
3
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
4
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
5
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
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
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation

The lustgarten foundation is the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research in the world. see schedule o.the lustgarten foundation is boldly leading the way through hope and innovation, turning fear into action through education…

Human Services
8
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
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
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health
11
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
12
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Minneapolis Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Mens Golf Fellowship Inc. 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

28 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. 28 of the 50 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
24/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAYO CLINIC: $25,600 · OtherMAYO CLINICHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $8,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYSALVATION ARMY: $5,350 · OtherSALVATION ARMYBOYS GIRLS CLUB: $4,750 · OtherBOYS GIRLS CLUBCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $4,700 · OtherCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCNCH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $3,200 · OtherAVON FOUNDATION: $3,000 · OtherTHE FOUNDERS FUND INC: $2,500 · OtherWGCU: $2,500 · Other+18 more: $10,250 · Other+18 moreTHE ADENOID CYSTIC CARCINOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $30,000 · HealthTHE ADENOID CYSTIC CARCINOM…NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC: $4,000 · HealthNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC …+4 more: $1,300 · HealthCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $6,750 · EducationCOLLEGE POSSI…SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · EducationSYRACUSE UNIV…GETTYSBURG COLLEGE: $5,000 · EducationGETTYSBURG CO…Breck School: $1,000 · EducationBreck SchoolARTIS-NAPLES INC: $12,500 · Arts & CultureARTIS-NAPL…+2 more: $300 · Arts & CultureTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION: $4,000 · PhilanthropyCHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $500 · PhilanthropyAVOW Hospice Inc: $2,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $600 · Human ServicesMOORINGS PARK FOUNDATION INC: $500 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA INC: $300 · Human ServicesGuadalupe Center Inc: $250 · Human Services+1 more: $50 · Human ServicesMULTIPLIER: $1,000 · EnvironmentNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $110 · Environment
Other$69,850Health$35,300Education$17,750Arts & Culture$12,800Philanthropy$4,500Human Services$3,700Environment$1,110

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 budgetTHE ADENOID CYSTIC CARCINOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetARTIS-NAPLES INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $6,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGETTYSBURG COLLEGE: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $4,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDERS FUND INC: $2,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAVOW Hospice Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBreck School: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMULTIPLIER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMens Golf Fellowship Inc: $800 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOORINGS PARK FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA INC: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGuadalupe Center Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITE BEAR CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $50 over 1y, 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.

Raymond James Charita…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Raymond James Charitable Endowment FundFL12.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Stafford Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stafford Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Naples Botanical Garden Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Covenant House Florida Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Guadalupe Center Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Avow Hospice Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

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 50 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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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