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Stifler 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.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
93
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$350k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$7.6MEnvironment$1.6MEducation$622kPublic Benefit$352kYouth Development$87kCrime & Legal$59kCommunity Improvement$55kHealth$47kOther$0
02FY2024 · 93 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k79 grants · $134k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $149k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $388k
  • $250k+1 grant · $350k
$1,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$48M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ANDROSCOGGIN VALLEY COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS$350,000
COOLIDGE CORNER THEATER$150,000
CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON$112,500
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE$75,000
BUZZARDS BAY COALITION$50,000
GILMAN SCHOOL$25,000
MAINE MINERAL & GEM MUSEUM$20,000
BEDLAM$20,000
WAREHAM LAND TRUST$18,396
STRATEGIES FOR YOUTH$18,200
MAINE ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATION$15,000
NEW BEGINNINGS REENTRY SERVICES INC$12,000
NATIONAL CENTER OF AFRO-AMERICAN ARTISTS$10,000
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$10,000
THE CALCULUS PROJECT$5,000
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, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PINE STREET INN: $2k → 16%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $3k → 7%ST GEORGE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $3k → 11%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $1k → 7%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $500 → 7%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%STRONG WOMEN STRONG GIRLS: $2k → 16%HOMELESS EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $5k → 8%THE CHILDRENS ROOM: $1k → 8%SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM: $15k → 16%SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM: $15k → 16%NATIONAL CENTER OF AFRO-AMERICAN ARTISTS: $10k → 16%SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM: $10k → 16%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
VT
NH
WA
WI
MI
NY
MA
SD
NJ
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
DC
AL
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.4M · 93 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

93 repeat relationships: 51 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 40 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

93
79

Total granted

$9.4M
$789k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+16%

Still filing today

60%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $437k 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
EnvironmentEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $600k · revenue +9%
  • THE CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $169k · revenue +40%
  • WL
    WAREHAM LAND TRUST INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $105k · revenue +168%

Funded once

  • CF
    COALITION FOR BUZZARDS BAY
    one grant, 2021 · $247k
  • CC
    COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +61%
  • M4
    MAINE 4H
    one grant, 2021 · $116k
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
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
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
4
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
5
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
6
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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7
Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment
8
Bartlett Arboretum Association Inc

To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.

Environment
9
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
10
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
11
The Trustees of Reservations

Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.

Environment
12
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlands Trust Inc; the most unlike its peers is Stoneham Rescue Service Inc. 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

123 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. 123 of the 214 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
123/123
Grantees still filing
85/123
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAINE MINERAL & GEM MUSEUM: $4,963,402 · OtherMAINE MINERAL & GEM MUSEUMCOOLIDGE CORNER THEATER: $300,000 · OtherCOALITION FOR BUZZARDS BAY: $246,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $235,720 · Other+131 more: $1,087,514 · Other+131 moreMAINE MINERAL AND GEM MUSEUM: $1,845,331 · Arts & CultureMAINE MINERAL AND GEM…COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureCOOLIDGE CORNER THEAT…+9 more: $33,110 · Arts & CultureTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $600,000 · EnvironmentTHE CONSE…WAREHAM LAND TRUST INC: $105,296 · EnvironmentWAREHAM L…BUZZARDS BAY COALITION: $70,000 · EnvironmentBUZZARDS …+22 more: $122,000 · Environment+22 moreTrustees of Dartmouth College: $163,500 · EducationGILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $100,000 · EducationNorthern Forest Center Inc: $77,500 · EducationCALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $66,000 · EducationCALCULUS PROJECT INC: $44,250 · EducationPIONEER INSTITUTE INC: $40,000 · Education+9 more: $22,500 · EducationAndroscoggin Valley Council of Governments: $350,000 · Public BenefitSOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesNational Center of Afro American Artists: $10,000 · Human ServicesHOMELESS EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesCharity Navigator: $4,000 · Human ServicesPINE STREET INN INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesSTGEORGE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $2,500 · Human Services+2 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesSTRATEGIES FOR YOUTH: $41,379 · Youth DevelopmentTREE STREET YOUTH INC: $6,500 · Youth DevelopmentUTEC Inc: $4,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE DEERWOOD FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $1,000 · Youth Development
Other$6,833,136Arts & Culture$2,028,441Environment$897,296Education$513,750Public Benefit$350,000Human Services$67,000Youth Development$56,379

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetMAINE MINERAL AND GEM MUSEUM: $1,845,331 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $600,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAndroscoggin Valley Council of Governments: $350,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetTHE CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON INC: $168,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $163,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetWAREHAM LAND TRUST INC: $105,296 over 4y, 24% of budgetGILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNorthern Forest Center Inc: $77,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetBUZZARDS BAY COALITION: $70,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $66,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCALCULUS PROJECT INC: $44,250 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetBedlam Inc: $42,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetSTRATEGIES FOR YOUTH: $41,379 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetPIONEER INSTITUTE INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC: $22,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEW BEGINNINGS REENTRY SERVICES INC: $22,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetAMERICAN YOUTH TABLE TENNIS ORGINC: $20,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetCENTRAL SQUARE THEATER INC: $15,750 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNEW LEARNING JOURNEY INC: $15,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCOURAGEOUS PARENTS NETWORKINC: $14,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetMaine Farmland Trust: $13,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMAINE TREE FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetBETHEL HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $11,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetNational Center of Afro American Artists: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCITIZENS FOR JUVENILE JUSTICE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE URBAN FARMING INSTITUTE OF BOSTONINC: $8,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetForest Society of Maine: $8,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $8,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LENNY ZAKIM FUND: $8,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPARTNERS FOR YOUTH WITH DISABILITIES INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTREE STREET YOUTH INC: $6,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMahoosuc Land Trust Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation: $5,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE OUR STREETS-BOSTON: $5,000 over 1y, 56% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMELESS EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetAVIAN HAVEN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT THE ARMORY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOULD ACADEMY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIA Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLAKES ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATION: $4,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUTEC Inc: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON RESCUE MISSION INC: $4,000 over 4y, 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 MAINE MINERAL AND GEM MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Androscoggin Valley Council of Governments ↗
  • Who funds THE CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
  • Who funds COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WAREHAM LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds GILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds Northern Forest Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds BUZZARDS BAY COALITION ↗
  • Who funds CALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds CALCULUS PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds Bedlam Inc ↗
  • Who funds STRATEGIES FOR YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds PIONEER INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC ↗
  • Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS REENTRY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN YOUTH TABLE TENNIS ORGINC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL SQUARE THEATER INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW LEARNING JOURNEY INC ↗
  • Who funds COURAGEOUS PARENTS NETWORKINC ↗
  • Who funds Maine Farmland Trust ↗

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.

Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Cummings Foundation G…Maine Community Found…Liberty Mutual Founda…Elmina B Sewall Found…The Hamilton Company …Combined Jewish Phila…The Cabot Family Char…Bushrod H Campbell & …Adelard & Valeda Roy …Highland Street Conne…
Boston Foundation IncMA47.3× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Adelard & Valeda Roy Foundation · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries

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 Stifler Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stifler Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 260%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Partakers Inc: 59% of income from government
  • Utec Inc: 46% of income from government
  • New Beginnings Reentry Services Inc: 42% of income from government
  • Parents for Peace: 41% of income from government
  • Buzzards Bay Coalition: 37% of income from government
  • Save Our Streets-Boston: 36% of income from government
  • Samaritans Inc: 31% of income from government
  • Wareham Land Trust Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Strategies for Youth: 21% of income from government
  • Boston Casa Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Ellie Fund Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Social Capital Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Round the Bend Farm Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Women's Lunch Place Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Wildlands Trust Inc: 5% of income from government
  • The Urban Farming Institute of Bostoninc: 4% of income from government
  • Shelter Music Boston Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc: 3% of income from government
  • The Celebrity Series of Boston Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Young Man With a Plan Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Central Square Theater Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club: 1% of income from government
  • The Marion Institute Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Community Music Center of Boston Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Our Sisters School: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
26get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Stifler Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Stifler 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 214 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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