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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $49k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HATCH | $50,000 |
| ST MARK'S LUTHERAN CHURCH | $26,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF N ALABAMA | $22,500 |
| HUNTSVILLE LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| HUNTSVILLE BOTANICAL GARDENS | $2,500 |
| SECOND MILE DEVELOPMENT | $2,500 |
| VETERANS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| DOWNTOWN RESCUE MISSION | $2,000 |
| VOLNA PRISON MINISTRY | $1,500 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| MUSEUM OF POWER & INDUSTRY | $500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
16 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH ALABAMA8× · 2018–2025 · $205k · revenue +88%
- BCBARON CRITICAL WEATHER INSTITUTE3× · 2018–2024 · $150k · revenue +215% · 37% of their budget
- DRDOWNTOWN RESCUE MISSION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- NINOVUSWAY INCone grant, 2020 · $25k
- TLTHE LEGACY CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +805%
- HLHUNTSVILLE LEARNING CENTERone grant, 2023 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Non Profit Museum
To promote understanding, appreciation, interest, and education in the fine & applied arts, history, and sciences for the surrounding community
Preserving and demonstrating railroad history
The guntersville museum and cultural center association was formed to provide guntersville and marshall county, alabama a heritage repository, a place to display local, state and national exhibits of historical and/or educational…
Educational
Manage, invest, and disburse endowment funds for the burritt museum association - a 501(c)(3) organization.
The mission of the Houston Museum of Natural Science shall be to preserve and advance the general knowledge of natural science; to enhance in individuals the knowledge of and delight in natural science and related subjects; and to maintain…
Development of cultural and artistic enlightenment
Public library
Historic preservation
Tell the stories of grinnell and the surrounding area through artifacts and photographs.
The maritime museum will tell the story of the state's 300 year maritime history and will serve as a repository to archive, preserve, and display maritime artifacts and historical documents as well as provide extensive educational programs…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baron Critical Weather Institute and the most unlike its peers is Food Bank of North Alabama Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 32 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds BARON CRITICAL WEATHER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds HUNTSVILLE-MADISON COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LEGACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM BOARD OF THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE ↗
- Who funds The Huntsville Margarita Society ↗
- Who funds SECOND MILE DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds FREE 2 TEACH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE OF PROMISE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC HUNTSVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ENRICHMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of North Alabama Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF POWER AND INDUSTRY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Stender Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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