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Stanley 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.

$61M
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$60M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$234MEducation$538kHuman Services$75kArts & Culture$50kFood & Nutrition$30kCivil Rights$20kCommunity Improvement$20kEnvironment$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $185k
  • $250k+2 grants · $61M
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$547M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE BROAD INSTITUTE$60,000,000
TREATMENT ADVOCACY CENTER$600,000
READING EDUCATION FOUNDATION$35,000
SPRING GARDEN CDC$20,000
LAUREL HOUSE$15,000
BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY$15,000
ST MARTIN DE PORRES ACADEMY$10,000
THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY$10,000
BREAST CANCER SUPPORT SERVICES OF THE BERKS$10,000
ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY$10,000
EAGLE HILL FOUNDATION$10,000
LET'S GET READY$10,000
HORIZONS CT STATE NORWALK$10,000
MERCY LEARNING CENTER$10,000
FOUNDATION FOR READING AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CAMP HAZEN YMCA: $5k → 7%CAMP HAZEN YMCA: $5k → 7%GUILFORD A BETTER CHANCE: $3k → 12%STAYING PUT IN NEW CANAAN: $5k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $15k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $15k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $15k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $15k → 9%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.
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$235M · 27 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
10

Total granted

$235M
$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+22%

Still filing today

67%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • TB
    The Broad Institute Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $231M · revenue +44%
  • TA
    TREATMENT ADVOCACY CENTER
    5× · 2020–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +45% · 28% of their budget
  • RE
    READING EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $165k · revenue +73% · 36% of their budget

Funded once

  • O
    OXFAM
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • TN
    THE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATEDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +40%
  • WC
    Wildlife Conservation Society
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +16%
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
Albright College

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

Education
2
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
5
Fairfield University

To establish, organize, maintain and conduct an institution for secondary, undergraduate and graduate education in the state of connecticut, and to perform such other works of education, charity and religion. see schedule o.

Education
6
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
7
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
8
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
9
Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education
10
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
11
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
12
University of Hartford

Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New Canaan Country School Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Parkinson's Body and Mind 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

26 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. 26 of the 39 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
20/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Broad Institute Inc: $230,901,000 · HealthThe Broad Institute Inc+2 more: $3,005,000 · HealthREADING EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $165,000 · OtherSPRING GARDEN CDC: $100,000 · OtherLAUREL HOUSE INC: $95,000 · OtherHORIZONS AT NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL: $55,000 · OtherGENISIUS THEATRE: $50,000 · OtherBREAST CANCER SUPPORT SERVICES OF THE BERKS: $40,000 · OtherALVERNIA UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · OtherSPACE ON RYDER FARM: $30,000 · Other+9 more: $82,500 · OtherST MARTIN DE PORRES ACADEMY INC: $95,000 · EducationHorizons at CT State Norwalk Inc: $60,000 · EducationNORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · EducationEAGLE HILL FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · EducationMERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC: $20,000 · EducationLET'S GET READY INC: $20,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR READING AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $15,000 · EducationTHE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $10,000 · EducationTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationBUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $60,000 · Human ServicesCAMP HAZEN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesSTAYING PUT IN NEW CANAAN INC: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesNORWALK ACTS INC: $20,000 · Community ImprovementWEST READING COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Community ImprovementSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EnvironmentWildlife Conservation Society: $10,000 · AnimalsNEW REACH INC: $5,000 · Housing & Shelter
Health$233,906,000Other$647,500Education$285,000Human Services$77,500Community Improvement$30,000Environment$10,000Animals$10,000Housing & Shelter$5,000

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 budgetThe Broad Institute Inc: $230,901,000 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetTREATMENT ADVOCACY CENTER: $3,000,000 over 5y, 28% of budgetREADING EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $165,000 over 4y, 36% of budgetLAUREL HOUSE INC: $95,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetST MARTIN DE PORRES ACADEMY INC: $95,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetBUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $60,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHorizons at CT State Norwalk Inc: $60,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetALVERNIA UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEAGLE HILL FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLET'S GET READY INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNORWALK ACTS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR READING AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS IN ACTION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP HAZEN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST READING COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTAYING PUT IN NEW CANAAN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPARKINSON'S BODY AND MIND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNORWALK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetNEW REACH INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGUILFORD A BETTER CHANCE INC GUILFORD A BETTER CHANCE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Fairfield County's Co…Peoples United Commun…The Goodnow FundThe Near and Far Asso…The Pfizer Foundation…Michael Palm Foundati…Oppenheim Family Fund…New Canaan Community …Webster Bank Charitab…Aetna Foundation IncVanguard Charitable E…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT25.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · The Goodnow Fund · The Near and Far Association Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Michael Palm Foundation · Oppenheim Family Fund Inc · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · Webster Bank Charitable Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management 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 Stanley Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stanley Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 49%
  • Community Partners in Action Inc: 90% of income from government
  • Laurel House Inc: 68% of income from government
  • New Reach Inc: 49% of income from government
  • The Broad Institute Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Norwalk Acts Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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 Stanley Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Stanley Family 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 39 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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