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Stephanie and Peter Nolan Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$6.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$5.2M
Largest
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$21MReligion$572kHealth$371kSocial Science$285kHuman Services$132kPhilanthropy$130kArts & Culture$125kCivil Rights$70kOther$0
02FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $240k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $515k
  • $250k+2 grants · $5.5M
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$5,220,060
AVE MARIA UNIVERSITY$250,000
Individual grant recipient$215,000
NIAGARA UNIVERSITY$100,000
UCLA FOUNDATION$100,000
USOPF$50,000
LOS ANGELES BALLET$50,000
AMERICAN MARTYRS SCHOOL$33,150
ORDER OF MALTA$31,773
YMCA$28,000
COLLIS INC$20,000
AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE$20,000
HIRSHBERG FOUNDATION PANCREATIC CANCER$15,000
ST LAWRENCE OF BRINDISI$15,000
HERMOSA BEACH POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION$14,000
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 (FY20–24, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.

area typical 10%MYCHALS LEARNING PLACE: $500 → 14%Franziska Racker Center: $10k → 16%Catholic Charities of Los Angeles: $10k → 14%Catholic Charities of Los Angeles: $10k → 14%Catholic Charities of Los Angeles: $1k → 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

ME
NY
MA
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
HI
FL
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$21M · 33 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
47

Total granted

$21M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+22%

Still filing today

55%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $216k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureReligionCivil RightsOther
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

  • Cornell University
    4× · 2021–2024 · $18M · revenue +23%
  • AM
    AVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $675k · revenue +127%
  • AE
    AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH
    4× · 2020–2024 · $220k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • SL
    ST LOUIS DE MONTFORT CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $350k
  • OL
    Our Lady of Guadalupe School
    one grant, 2020 · $164k
  • SM
    St Madeleine School
    one grant, 2020 · $108k
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
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
2
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
3
California State University Los Angeles Foundation

To advance the educational, cultural, scholarly, and creative activities and the role of community service of csula by increasing private funding, responsibly managing donated resources and supporting the university and its diverse and…

Education
4
Califonia State University East Bay Foundation Inc

Csu east bay foundation is an auxiliary organization of california state university east bay and the california state university system. the organization's mission is to provide services that aid, supplement, and advance the educational…

Education
5
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
6
University of La Verne

The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…

Education
7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
8
California State University Long Beach Research Foundation

Serves the mission of the university by supporting and engaging in research, entrepreneurship, community service, sponsored programs and the acquisition of private resources.

Education
9
Los Angeles Mission College Foundation

The specific purpose for which the los angeles mission college foundation has been established is to advance the college's educational and cultural goals.

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10
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
11
Pacific University

A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.

Education
12
Dominican University of California

Our institutional mission is to educate and prepare students to be ethical leaders and socially responsible global citizens who incorporate the dominican values of study, reflection, community and service into their lives.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ucla Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Kissick Family Foundation. 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

41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 98 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/41
Grantees still filing
30/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Cornell University: $18,472,659 · EducationCornell UniversityAVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INC: $675,000 · Education+7 more: $265,273 · EducationAMERICAN MARTYRS SCHOOL: $440,200 · OtherAMERICAN MARTYR…ST LOUIS DE MONTFORT CHURCH: $350,000 · OtherST LOUIS DE MON…Individual grant recipient: $240,000 · OtherIndividual gran…Our Lady of Guadalupe School: $163,700 · OtherSt Joseph School: $113,150 · OtherSt Madeleine School: $108,000 · Other+71 more: $1,782,000 · Other+71 moreBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD: $125,000 · PhilanthropyPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $220,000 · Social ScienceOrder of Malta Clinic of Northern California: $116,182 · HealthSanta Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital Foundation: $20,000 · HealthFAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF ITHACA INC: $17,500 · HealthMOVEMBER FOUNDATION: $9,510 · Health+2 more: $6,000 · HealthLOS ANGELES BALLET INC: $55,000 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Arts & CultureLEGAL INSURRECTION FOUNDATION: $70,000 · Civil Rights
Education$19,412,932Other$3,197,050Philanthropy$225,000Social Science$220,000Health$169,192Arts & Culture$75,000Civil Rights$70,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCornell University: $18,472,659 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INC: $675,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $220,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD: $125,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOrder of Malta Clinic of Northern California: $116,182 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetNIAGARA UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLEGAL INSURRECTION FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetHERMOSA BEACH EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $69,500 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE: $65,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES BALLET INC: $55,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCOLLIS INC: $45,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation: $27,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetORDER OF MALTA WORLDWIDE RELIEF MALTESER INTERNATIONAL AMERICAS: $22,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC: $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF ITHACA INC: $17,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLAS MADRINAS: $11,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetIGNATIANS WEST: $10,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRANZISKA RACKER CENTERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEVEN K AND WINIFRED A GRINSPOON HILLEL CENTER FOR JEWISH COMMUNITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOVEMBER FOUNDATION: $9,510 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLAB FOUNDATION: $7,250 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetKing Ferry Food Pantry Inc: $5,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMammoth Mountain Community Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTOURETTE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKISSICK FAMILY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ST LAWRENCE-WATTS YOUTH CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSWIM WITH MIKE FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVALPO SURF PROJECT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLOS OLIVOS SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $1,235 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLACER Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMBX FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI National: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA COUNTY FARM BUREAU: $700 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation: $538 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMYCHALS LEARNING PLACE: $500 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 Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds AVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD ↗
  • Who funds Order of Malta Clinic of Northern California ↗
  • Who funds NIAGARA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL INSURRECTION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HERMOSA BEACH EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE MILKEN INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds COLLIS INC ↗
  • Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation ↗

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.

Catholic Community Foundation of Los AngelesCA13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Catholic Community Foundation of Los Angeles · California Community Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America

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 Stephanie and Peter Nolan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stephanie and Peter Nolan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Ave Maria University Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 98 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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