· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 BOTANICAL GARDENS | $2,500 |
| VETERANS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| SECOND MILE DEVELOPMENT | $2,500 |
| HUNTSVILLE LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| DOWNTOWN RESCUE MISSION | $2,000 |
| VOLNA PRISON MINISTRY | $1,500 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| MUSEUM OF POWER & INDUSTRY | $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.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 32 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 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 HISTORIC HUNTSVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FREE 2 TEACH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND MILE DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE OF PROMISE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE ENRICHMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of North Alabama Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF POWER AND INDUSTRY ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Stender Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stender Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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