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Stenkirke 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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$700k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$2.1MEducation$1.2MCrime & Legal$557kHealth$420kInternational$380kHuman Services$147kPhilanthropy$123kEnvironment$78kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $58k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $175k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $403k
  • $250k+1 grant · $700k
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST MARKS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$700,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY - DUKE DIVINITY SCHOOL$202,500
EZEKIEL RAIN$75,000
SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS$75,000
NOMI NETWORK$50,000
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$25,000
LAKE GENEVA FOUNDATION$22,268
IN HIS STEPS MINISTRIES INC$15,000
ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS FOUNDATION$15,000
AMERICAN GATEWAYS$15,000
TREEPEOPLE INC$13,000
COMMUNITY DOULAS OF WACO$10,200
CHURCH OF THE RESURRECTION$10,000
CREATE GOOD FOUNDATION - FUNDA VIDA$10,000
NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION$10,000
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 (FY20–25, $153k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $10k → 9%MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $5k → 13%AUSTIN JUSTICE COALITION: $1k → 10%COMMUNITY DOULAS OF WACO: $10k → 16%ASIAS HOPE: $2k → 15%IN HIS STEPS MINISTRIES INC: $25k → 11%IMAGINE LOS ANGELES INC: $5k → 14%UNDUE MEDICAL DEBT: $5k → 13%IN HIS STEPS MINISTRIES INC: $15k → 11%IMAGINE LOS ANGELES INC: $5k → 14%IN HIS STEPS MINISTRIES INC: $15k → 11%IN HIS STEPS MINISTRIES INC: $15k → 11%IN HIS STEPS MINISTRIES INC: $15k → 11%IN HIS STEPS MINISTRIES INC: $10k → 11%SELAH NEIGHBORHOOD HOMELESS COALITION: $5k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LA: $10k → 14%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

WA
IL
WI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
CO
AR
NC
DC
MS
GA
TX
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.0M · 38 repeat orgs$147k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +73% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

38 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
20

Total granted

$5.0M
$89k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%
+7%

Still filing today

74%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationCrime & LegalReligionPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • NN
    NOMI NETWORK INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $506k · revenue +95%
  • LG
    LAKE GENEVA FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $417k · revenue +73%
  • SB
    SIDE BY SIDE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $360k · revenue +29% · 39% of their budget

Funded once

  • CO
    CHURCH OF THE ADVOCATE
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • WF
    WACO FAMILY MEDICINE
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE LOS ANGELES RIVER
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue -29%
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
Redeeming Justice Network

Houston Legal Aid Center protects and advances the rights of the poor through the poor through the provision of pro bono or reduced cost legal services while also addressing the underlying spiritual and relational issues affecting…

Civil Rights
2
Jubilee Immigration Advocates

Our mission is to reflect Gods intent for humanity, to live as a reconciled and and restored community. We stand in solidarity with immigrants by providing high quality, affordable immigration legal services and advocating for just…

Human Services
3
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
4
Fellowship Southwest

Fellowship Southwest is an ecumenical regional network of Christians and partner ministries promoting compassion, justice and connection throughout the Southwest US. Our ministry includes a network of pastors serving migrants on both sides…

Religion
5
Austin Habitat for Humanity Inc

Through faith in action, austin habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

—
6
Christian Immigration Advocacy Cent

Provide high-quality legal services in a compassionate, incarnational, and culturally-appropriate way and empower churches to serve their sojourner neighbors well through collaborative partnerships.

Human Services
7
A Faithful Presence

A faithful presence afp is an organization that provides holistic spiritual care, community building, and trauma-informed advocacy for our formerly homeless neighbors while training other communities to do the same.

Religion
8
Austin City Lutherans

Address food and housing insecurity for Austin-area low income families.

Religion
9
Texas Immigration Law Council

It is the mission of the Texas Immigration Law Council to protect and promote the basic rights of immigrants and refugees of all nationalities within Texas.

Civil Rights
10
Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge

Witnessing to god's love for all people, we stand with and advocate for migrants and refugees, transforming communities through ministries of service and justice.

—
11
Arise Chicago

Arise chicago builds partnerships between faith communities and workers to fight workplace injustice through education, organizing, and advocating for public policy changes.

Employment
12
Equal Justice Center

The Equal Justice Center is a non-profit law firm and employment justice organization which empowers low-income families, workers, and communities to achieve fair treatment in the workplace, in the justice system, and in our shared society…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Los Angeles Inc; the most unlike its peers is Community Doulas of Waco. 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

46 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. 46 of the 67 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
33/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST MARKS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $1,452,000 · OtherST MARKS EPISCOPAL CHURCHDUKE UNIVERSITY - DUKE DIVINITY SCHOOL: $727,500 · OtherDUKE UNIVERSITY - DUKE DIVINITY SCHOOLFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $120,000 · Other+34 more: $432,300 · Other+34 moreLAKE GENEVA FOUNDATION: $417,268 · ReligionLAKE GENEVA FOUND…SIDE BY SIDE: $360,000 · ReligionSIDE BY SIDE+2 more: $15,000 · ReligionNOMI NETWORK INC: $506,000 · Crime & LegalNOMI NETWORK…American Gateways: $45,000 · Crime & LegalAmerican Gat…+2 more: $6,000 · Crime & LegalSINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS INC: $195,000 · EducationSINGLE PA…JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY: $130,000 · EducationJOHN BROW…Wheaton College: $47,500 · EducationWheaton C…HILDEGARD COLLEGE: $45,000 · EducationHILDEGARD…+2 more: $6,000 · EducationEZEKIEL RAIN INC: $340,000 · InternationalFLORESTA USA INCORPORATED: $28,000 · International+1 more: $12,000 · InternationalIN HIS STEPS MINISTRIES INC: $95,000 · Human ServicesMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesHOPE THE MISSION: $15,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Doulas of Waco: $10,200 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesImagine Los Angeles Inc: $10,000 · Human Services+3 more: $7,500 · Human ServicesTHE FOUNDATION FOR ST MARTIN-IN- THE-FIELDS LONDON: $50,000 · PhilanthropyOverflow Inc: $33,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MANNA CENTER: $20,000 · Philanthropy
Other$2,731,800Religion$792,268Crime & Legal$557,000Education$423,500International$380,000Human Services$172,700Philanthropy$133,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNOMI NETWORK INC: $506,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetLAKE GENEVA FOUNDATION: $417,268 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetSIDE BY SIDE: $360,000 over 6y, 39% of budgetEZEKIEL RAIN INC: $340,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetSINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS INC: $195,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetJOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY: $130,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIN HIS STEPS MINISTRIES INC: $95,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR ST MARTIN-IN- THE-FIELDS LONDON: $50,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetWheaton College: $47,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHILDEGARD COLLEGE: $45,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetAmerican Gateways: $45,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTREEPEOPLE INC: $38,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetINCLUSIVE ACTION FOR THE CITY: $35,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetOverflow Inc: $33,000 over 5y, 97% of budgetNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetFLORESTA USA INCORPORATED: $28,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MANNA CENTER: $20,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetEl Buen Samaritano Episcopal Mission: $19,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWE CARE SOLAR: $18,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPRISON JOURNALISM PROJECT INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHOPE THE MISSION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetImagine Art: $14,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCASA MARIANELLA INC: $13,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetECO THEO COLLECTIVE: $13,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetHOPE INTERNATIONAL: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetImagine Los Angeles Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LOS ANGELES RIVER: $8,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDURHAM LITERACY CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF BENTON COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FID GROUP FRIENDS IN DEED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWelcome Table Incorporated: $5,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetREALITY MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSELAH NEIGHBORHOOD HOMELESS COALITION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFeeding America: $4,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASIA'S HOPE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RISE SCHOOL OF AUSTIN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN PARENTING: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRESTORING JUSTICE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAustin Justice Coalition: $1,000 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.

  • Who funds NOMI NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds LAKE GENEVA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SIDE BY SIDE ↗
  • Who funds EZEKIEL RAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds IN HIS STEPS MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR ST MARTIN-IN- THE-FIELDS LONDON ↗
  • Who funds Wheaton College ↗
  • Who funds HILDEGARD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds American Gateways ↗
  • Who funds TREEPEOPLE INC ↗
  • Who funds INCLUSIVE ACTION FOR THE CITY ↗
  • Who funds Overflow Inc ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FLORESTA USA INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MANNA CENTER ↗
  • Who funds El Buen Samaritano Episcopal Mission ↗
  • Who funds WE CARE SOLAR ↗
  • Who funds PRISON JOURNALISM PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE THE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds Imagine Art ↗
  • Who funds CASA MARIANELLA INC ↗
  • Who funds ECO THEO COLLECTIVE ↗
  • Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds Community Doulas of Waco ↗
  • Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗

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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Austin Community Foun…The Soderquist Family…Episcopal Health Foun…United Way for Greate…United Way IncThe Moody FoundationGreater Houston Commu…Weingart FoundationFour1 FoundationSt David's FoundationCalifornia Community …Arvest Foundation
Austin Community Foundation IncTX21.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · The Soderquist Family Foundation · Episcopal Health Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · United Way Inc · The Moody Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Four1 Foundation · St David's Foundation · California Community Foundation · Arvest Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Stenkirke Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stenkirke Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Stenkirke Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Stenkirke Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 67 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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