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Stephen and Mary Graves Family 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.

$48k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
23
Grants FY2024
27
Organizations funded FY2023
67%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,725
Largest grant, FY2024
$7,500
Organizations funded a year
2 to 32
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$74k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 67% of the organizations Stephen and Mary Graves Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 61% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving23$48k30%
FY202327$127k67%
FY202214$60k57%
FY20219$8k56%
FY20202$3k100%
FY20197$5k86%
FY201820$64k55%
FY201732$89kn/a
89% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$64kPhilanthropy$55kYouth Development$47kInternational$42kEducation$41kCommunity Improvement$38kArts & Culture$25kHousing & Shelter$23kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Global Offsite Care$34,902456%
Boys Republic$22,12830%
Sonoma County Library Foundation$18,50010%
Rotary Club of Sebastopol$13,69545%
Luther Burbank Memorial Foundation$10,00020%
Sandra Day O'Connor Institute for American Democracy$8,50030%
Phoenix Rotary Club Charities$7,85314%
Rotary Club of Santa Rosa West$7,290212%
NAMI Sonoma County$7,16021%
Maasai Environmental Resource Coalition$5,0001n/a
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 53 recipients with no EIN on record ($234k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Stephen and Mary Graves Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGlobal Offsite Care: $34,902 over 4y, 56% of budgetBoys Republic: $22,128 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSonoma County Library Foundation: $18,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRotary Club of Sebastopol: $13,695 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetLuther Burbank Memorial Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSandra Day O'Connor Institute for American Democracy: $8,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPhoenix Rotary Club Charities: $7,853 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetRotary Club of Santa Rosa West: $7,290 over 2y, 12% of budgetNAMI Sonoma County: $7,160 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetAnn Arbor Center for Independent Living Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmmanuel Christian Academy: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCalifornia Womens Recovery Inc: $2,400 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetKansas City Art Institute: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc: $1,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Circus Barn Inc: $1,049 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStephens College: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRotary Club of Rohnert Park-Cotati: $775 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCatholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties: $630 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGary Sinise Foundation: $520 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Heritage Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWooster Rotary Foundation: $344 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDonorschooseorg: $198 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKqed Inc: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLifeworks of Sonoma County: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pennsylvania Ballet Association: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Sonoma County: $20 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $17 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 30.

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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.

Sonoma County Community FoundationCA19.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sonoma County Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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How do I get to Stephen and Mary Graves Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Stephen and Mary Graves 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.

About Stephen and Mary Graves Family Foundation

How much does Stephen and Mary Graves Family Foundation give?
Stephen and Mary Graves Family Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $47,661 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 32 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Stephen and Mary Graves Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (15%), Philanthropy (13%), Youth Development (11%).
Who are Stephen and Mary Graves Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Global Offsite Care ($35k), Boys Republic ($22k), Sonoma County Library Foundation ($19k).
Does Stephen and Mary Graves Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Stephen and Mary Graves 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 Stephen and Mary Graves Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sonoma County Community Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is Stephen and Mary Graves Family Foundation based?
Stephen and Mary Graves Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 91 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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