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Stella & Arthur Pepper Foundation Inc at a glance

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Stella & Arthur Pepper Foundation Inc

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$43k
Granted FY2019
17
Grants FY2019
10
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Animals$35kPublic Safety & Disaster$32kFood & Nutrition$18kHealth$11kInternational$6kArts & Culture$6kEducation$3kPhilanthropy$3kOther$0
02FY2019 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k15 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$1,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AKC CANINE HEALTH FOUNDATION$15,000
NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION$10,000
TAKE THE LEAD$5,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$2,500
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM$2,000
FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA$1,500
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$1,000
AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION$1,000
GOLDEN RETRIEVER FOUNDATION$1,000
ADELPHI UNIVERSITY$1,000
SALVATION ARMY$1,000
CLINTON FOUNDATION$500
AMERICARES$500
YOSEMITE CONSERVANCY$500
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$250
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 (FY17–18, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE: $250 → 9%THE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE: $250 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
CT
CA
CO
NE
VA
TN
NC
DC
AL
GA
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$114k · 21 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2019, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
8

Total granted

$114k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+117%

Still filing today

76%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
HealthAnimalsFood & NutritionInternationalArts & CultureEducationOther
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

  • AK
    AMERICAN KENNEL CLUB CANINE HEALTH FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +50%
  • TT
    TAKE THE LEAD INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +51%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $5k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • AR
    AMERICAN RED CROSS
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
  • TB
    The Blues Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +49%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY
    one grant, 2017 · $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
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
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
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
4
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…

Animals
5
Humane World Action Fund

To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.

Animals
6
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
7
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
8
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
9
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
10
The Jackson Laboratory

The purposes of the laboratory are scientific, medical, charitable, and educational. our mission is to discover precise genomic solutions for disease and empower the biomedical community.

Health
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Morris Animal Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 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

20 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. 20 of the 30 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
18/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION: $30,500 · HealthNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FO…BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $1,500 · Health+2 more: $1,500 · HealthAMERICAN KENNEL CLUB CANINE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $30,000 · AnimalsAMERICAN KENNEL CLUB CANINE HEA…MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $2,000 · AnimalsMORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION+1 more: $1,000 · AnimalsMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $9,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETT…GOLDEN RETRIEVER FOUNDATION: $2,000 · OtherGOLDEN RETRIEVER FO…BRADY CAMPAIGN: $1,250 · OtherBRADY CAMPAIGNTHE SALVATION ARMY: $1,250 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYAMERICAN RED CROSS: $1,000 · OtherUNITED WAY: $1,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $750 · OtherYOSEMITE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · OtherAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC: $700 · Other+6 more: $2,500 · Other+6 moreTAKE THE LEAD INC: $15,000 · Food & NutritionTAKE THE LEAD IN…FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $2,650 · Food & NutritionFEEDING SOUTH FL…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · InternationalThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $4,500 · Arts & CultureThe Blues Foundation Inc: $1,000 · Arts & CultureADELPHI UNIVERSITY: $3,000 · EducationWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $250 · Education
Health$33,500Animals$33,000Other$20,450Food & Nutrition$17,650International$6,000Arts & Culture$5,500Education$3,250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION: $30,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN KENNEL CLUB CANINE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTAKE THE LEAD INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetADELPHI UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $2,650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOSEMITE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Blues Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $250 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Stella & Arthur Pepper Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stella & Arthur Pepper Foundation 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%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Feeding South Florida Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 30 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2020) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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