· Private foundation
Stangler 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k29 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $37k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF NORTH CAROLINA | $17,000 |
| CHEETAH CONSERVATION FUND | $4,000 |
| CROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN | $4,000 |
| NC DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLU | $3,000 |
| HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK | $2,700 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,800 |
| BROWN BAG MINISTRY | $1,500 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $1,500 |
| LOAVES & FISHES | $1,300 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE | $1,300 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $1,200 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $1,100 |
| FIVE HEARTS THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP | $1,000 |
| SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER | $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 (FY17–25, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
40 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC8× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +86%
Cheetah Conservation Fund7× · 2019–2025 · $25k · revenue +63%- BBBROWN BAG MINISTRY8× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +139%
Funded once
- CFCenter for Colon Cancer Researchone grant, 2017 · $750
- IINTERACTone grant, 2017 · $500
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1Dgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +49%
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.
Care share health alliance is a north carolina-based nonprofit organization advancing community health and wellbeing through systems change. guided by the mission of collaborating for health and a vision of communities that are healthy and…
To improve the health and well-being of north carolinians and others whom we serve. we accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research.
The north carolina biotechnology center aids the biotechnology-related efforts of researchers, businesses, state and federal governments, and other agencies primarily through awards of grants and loans related to specific programs and…
To fight hunger and poverty in northeastern north carolina.
To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.
The mission of wakemed is to improve the health and well-being of our community with outstanding and compassionate care to all.
To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.
Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
To enhance the quality of life for the residents and visitors of dare county and the surrounding region by promoting wellness and providing the highest quality healthcare services.
To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Healing Transitions Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Congaree Swamp. 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 44 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 50 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 FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds Cheetah Conservation Fund ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Henderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds BROWN BAG MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds CROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Nourish Up ↗
- Who funds WAKE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE CENTER AT PULLEN INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TAMMY LYNN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE MEDICAL MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds THE RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds HEALING TRANSITIONS INC ↗
- Who funds American Whitewater ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRISMA HEALTH MIDLANDS FOUNDATION F/K/A PALMETTO HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Friends of Congaree Swamp ↗
- Who funds USO OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds Five Hearts Therapeutic Horsemanship Inc ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds Tamassee DAR School Inc ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION 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: Duke Energy Foundation · Lonnie & Carol Poole Family Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · WakeMed · Rex Hospital Inc · W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation · Seby B Jones Family Foundation · Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation · John William Pope Foundation · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · North Carolina Community 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 Stangler 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.
- American Whitewater — 5% 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.