Alabama · Private foundation
Stender 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.
- $114k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $232k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Stender Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
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
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 11 | $114k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $122k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $91k | 31% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $249k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $219k | 75% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $98k | 75% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $63k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $192k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boys & Girls Club of North Alabama | $205,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Baron Critical Weather Institute | $150,000 | 3 | 37% |
| Novusway Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Huntsville-Madison County Library Foundation | $17,500 | 6 | 2% |
| The Legacy Center Inc | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Downtown Rescue Mission Inc | $13,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Museum Board of the City of Huntsville | $6,520 | 3 | 0% |
| The Huntsville Margarita Society | $4,500 | 3 | 11% |
| Historic Huntsville Foundation Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Free 2 Teach Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 17 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boys & Girls Club of North Alabama | $205,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Baron Critical Weather Institute | $150,000 | 3 | 37% |
| Novusway Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Huntsville-Madison County Library Foundation | $17,500 | 6 | 2% |
| The Legacy Center Inc | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Downtown Rescue Mission Inc | $13,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Museum Board of the City of Huntsville | $6,520 | 3 | 0% |
| The Huntsville Margarita Society | $4,500 | 3 | 11% |
| Historic Huntsville Foundation Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Free 2 Teach Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Community Bible Church | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Second Mile Development Inc | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Village of Promise Incorporated | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Enrichment Center | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Food Bank of North Alabama Inc | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Museum of Power and Industry | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Girls Golf of Huntsville Inc | $500 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($693k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Stender Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville · The Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundation · Wallace E Kirkpatrick Family Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Propst Foundation · The Beard-Young Family Foundation · Inspire & Achieve Corporation · The I3 Cares Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Carmax Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation
How this is measured
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About Stender Family Foundation
- How much does Stender Family Foundation give?
- Stender Family Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $113,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Stender Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (17%), Environment (13%), Science & Tech (13%).
- Who are Stender Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Boys & Girls Club of North Alabama ($205k), Baron Critical Weather Institute ($150k), Novusway Inc ($25k).
- Does Stender Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Stender Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Stender Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville, The Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundation, Wallace E Kirkpatrick Family Foundation.
- Where is Stender Family Foundation based?
- Stender Family Foundation is based in AL.
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