· Private foundation
Stella P Holt 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Stella P Holt Foundation’s FY2025 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. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Stella P Holt Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $16k. 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $2,500 |
| FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION | $2,000 |
| ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER | $2,000 |
| MASS EYE AND EAR INSTITUTE | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA JOURNALISM | $1,500 |
| COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS | $1,500 |
| REPORTERS FOR FREEDOM PRESS | $1,000 |
| CM RUSSELL MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE IRISH STUDIES IN THE WEST | $1,000 |
| SWAN VALLEY CONNECTIONS | $500 |
| THE ESPLANADE ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| FRIENDS OF PUBLIC GARDEN | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 66% of its 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.
23 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2023, 12 since wound down. Read against FY2023, 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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FFFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC6× · 2017–2023 · $12k · revenue +267%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc5× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +162%- EPELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER4× · 2018–2023 · $6k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- MEMASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARYone grant, 2017 · $2k
- BKBERMAN KLEIN CENTERone grant, 2022 · $2k
- HLHARVARD LAW SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $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.
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,…
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.
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."
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
The mission of the institute has remained constant since its founding in 1953. as its restated articles of incorporation state the primary purpose and objective of the howard hughes medical institute shall be the promotion of human…
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.
Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.
The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…
To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).
The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…
Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 38 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 FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds TRIGG - C M RUSSELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC ↗
- Who funds MCLAUGHLIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGIATE DIRECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds ESPLANADE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SWAN VALLEY CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds HARVARD VARSITY CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds National Smokejumper Association ↗
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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Stella P Holt Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stella P Holt Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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