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Stinson Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$50k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2025
5
Organizations funded FY2024
40%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 7
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$811k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Stinson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationEnvironmentCivil RightsHealthOther
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
FY2025still arriving6$50k33%
FY20245$45k40%
FY20235$40k20%
FY20224$40k25%
FY20217$45k86%
FY20201$10k0%
FY20194$35k50%
FY20184$35k25%
88% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$95kHuman Services$70kHealth$60kEnvironment$25kArts & Culture$15kCivil Rights$15kYouth Development$5kAnimals$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of Stinson Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Bynum School$45,00050%
High Sky Childrens Ranch Inc$35,00040%
Community Children's Ministry$30,00042%
Sibley Environmental Learning Center Foundation Inc$25,00033%
Hillcrest School Inc$25,00021%
Hospice of Midland Inc$20,00020%
The West Texas Jazz Society Inc$15,00023%
Casa of West Texas$15,00021%
Midland College Foundation$10,00010%
West Texas Gifts of Hope Inc$10,00012%
Senior Life Midland Inc$7,00010%
Family Promise of Midland Texas Inc$5,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($93k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Stinson Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBynum School: $45,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHigh Sky Childrens Ranch Inc: $35,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Children's Ministry: $30,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetSibley Environmental Learning Center Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetHillcrest School Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHospice of Midland Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe West Texas Jazz Society Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetCasa of West Texas: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMidland College Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWest Texas Gifts of Hope Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSenior Life Midland Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 11.

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.

Permian Basin Area FoundationTX28.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Permian Basin Area Foundation · Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust · Beal Foundation · Scharbauer Foundation Inc · Warren Charitable Foundation · Yarborough Foundation · The Fasken Foundation · Pevehouse Family Foundation · United Way of Midland Inc · Chaparral Foundation · Fmh Foundation · James a Buddy Davidson Charitable 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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About Stinson Foundation

How much does Stinson Foundation give?
Stinson Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $50,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Stinson Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (28%), Human Services (21%), Health (18%).
Who are Stinson Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Bynum School ($45k), High Sky Childrens Ranch Inc ($35k), Community Children's Ministry ($30k).
Does Stinson Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Stinson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Stinson Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Permian Basin Area Foundation, Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust, Beal Foundation.
Where is Stinson Foundation based?
Stinson Foundation is based in TX.

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 20 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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