· Private foundation
Stanley Charitable Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
87% of Stanley Charitable Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 8 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Stanley Charitable Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 12 organizations, $85k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k19 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $48k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST PAUL'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $13,565 |
| LEGATUS | $12,484 |
| FUND FOR VOCATIONS | $12,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF NURSING | $10,000 |
| TOLDEO MUSEUM OF ART | $9,173 |
| WOMENS HELP CENTER INC | $6,730 |
| ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CATHOLIC CHURCH | $4,413 |
| CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,333 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES USA | $3,000 |
| DIOCESE OF ST AUGUSTINE | $2,400 |
| CITY RESCUE MISSION | $750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $650 |
| RELEVANT RADIO | $600 |
| COSAC FOUNDATION | $600 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–23, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against -21% for those funded once.
28 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2022, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TTTHE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART3× · 2021–2023 · $19k · revenue +103%
- WHWOMEN'S HELP CENTER INC3× · 2021–2023 · $11k · revenue +67%
- NCNATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE US SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL INC4× · 2019–2022 · $2k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- BBEAMone grant, 2020 · $5k
- MEMATER ECCLESIAE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -83%
- SVST VINCENT DE PAUL CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
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.
Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…
Our mission is to advocate and pray for womens ordination as deacons, priests, and bishops into an inclusive and accountable roman catholic church.
Cathedral center's mission is to provide a safe environment for women and families, while working to end homelessness one life at a time. the cathedral center serves unaccompanied women and families with children who are homeless or…
Church world service, inc. is a private, voluntary faith-based organization with 37 member communions that transformscommunities around the globe through just and sustainable responses to hunger, poverty, displacement and disaster.
Lutheran services in america mission: cultivate caring communities that advance health and opportunity for all by building valuable connections, amplifying our voices and empowering our members in their mission to answer god's call to love…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
Episcopal relief & development (the organization") is an affiliate of the domestic and foreign missionary society of the protestant episcopal church of the united states of america (the "society or "dfms"). (see schedule o)
The policy center is improving maternal mental health outcomes through closing gaps in care delivery, including improving detection and access to evidence-based and informed clinical and community-based care. the policy center has been…
To improve lives by mobilizing caring power of communities around the world to advance common good.
To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 51 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds THE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S HELP CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds IMMACULATE HEART MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds MATER ECCLESIAE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE US SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COSAC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds CITY RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Stanley Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stanley Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- United Way of Northeast Florida Inc: 2% of income from government
- The Cosac Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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