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Stephen D Falkenbury Jr Foundation
Its FY2023 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 FY2020–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPTIAL | $5,000 |
| THE CITADEL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ST ANDREWS SEWANEE SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| PATRIOT MILITARY FAMILY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| HAIR TO STAY | $2,000 |
| CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH CAPITAL FUND | $2,000 |
| UNC THE ARTS AND SCIENCE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE | $2,000 |
| AMIDEAST HOPE FUND | $2,000 |
| ANERA | $1,000 |
| MOMENTS OF HOPE CHURCH | $1,000 |
| ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION - LEVINE CANCER INSTITUTE ADVANCEMENT FUND | $1,000 |
| PURPLE HEART HOMES | $1,000 |
| PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +66% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- CMCongressional Medal of Honor Society of the United States of America4× · 2020–2023 · $22k · revenue +27%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC4× · 2020–2023 · $18k · revenue +78%- TCTHE CITADEL BRIGADIER FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2022 · $17k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- RIRAPPU INCone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -21%
- NMNATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE US ARMYone grant, 2021 · $1k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $1k
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.
NextOp helps place talented enlisted service members and veterans into civilian careers through highly individualized preparation and an array of programming.
The Medal of Honor Foundation's mission and purpose is to provide funds to support the Congressional Medal of Honor Society. In doing so, the Foundation supports the Society in advancing their mission to perpetuate the Medal of Honor's…
To support, promote, and advance the mission of the naval academy.
The mission of the purple heart foundation is to enhance the quality of life of purple heart recipients and other honorably discharged veterans and their families.
The special operators transition foundation ("sotf") assists special operation forces veterans transition from the military into their next successful career.
Help the naval war college to: a. develop strategic and operational leaders: provide professional military education programs that are current, rigorous, relevant, and accessible to the maximum number of qualified u.s. officers and navy…
The mission of the uso foundation (foundation) is to support uso inc.'s (uso) mission to strengthen the well-being of the people serving in america's military and their families.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
The Organization was granted a charter as a not for profit corporation for patriotic and educational purposes with special concern for the welfare of veterans. The Organization's principal activities consist of protecting the benefits and…
Assists u.s. special operation forces transition from active duty military to private sector careers.
To send care and comfort packages to deployed american military heroes who are stationed in active duty theaters around the world, as well as to facilitate activities that elevate morale of all veterans
The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Citadel Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Carolinas Freedom Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 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. 27 of the 44 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 Congressional Medal of Honor Society of the United States of America ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CITADEL BRIGADIER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Patriot Military Family Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE CITADEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREW'S-SEWANEE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Leonard Education Organization ↗
- Who funds CAROLINAS FREEDOM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAIRTOSTAY ↗
- Who funds PURPLE HEART HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds RAPPU INC ↗
- Who funds PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID ↗
- Who funds USO OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds CABARRUS VICTIMS ASSISTANCE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds THE JOSHUA FUND ↗
- Who funds WOODY WILLIAMS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CANNON SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds The Army Historical Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ART LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds DRIVE FORE THE TROUPS INC ↗
- Who funds East Cooper Community Outreach ↗
- Who funds GOING PLACES ↗
- Who funds One-Eighty Place ↗
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: Foundation for the Carolinas · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Mariam & Robert Hayes Charitable Trust · Albemarle Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
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 Stephen D Falkenbury Jr 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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