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Stinson Foundation at a glance

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Stinson Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$50k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% 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
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$811k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BYNUM SCHOOL$10,000
MARC INC$10,000
HILLCREST SCHOOL INC$10,000
CASA DE AMIGOS OF MIDLAND$5,000
HILLCREST SCHOOL INC$5,000
FAMILY PROMISE OF MIDLAND TEXAS$5,000
SIBLEY NATURE CENTER$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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SENIOR LINK MIDLAND: $7k → 12%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.
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$253k · 10 repeat orgs$82k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
8

Total granted

$253k
$67k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+2%

Still filing today

80%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthCivil RightsHuman ServicesEnvironmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • BS
    BYNUM SCHOOL
    5× · 2021–2025 · $45k · revenue +140%
  • CC
    COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S MINISTRY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $30k · revenue +28%
  • SE
    SIBLEY ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2019–2025 · $25k · revenue +84%

Funded once

  • CI
    COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • MC
    MIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • WT
    WEST TEXAS GIFTS OF HOPE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +2%
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
Mission Health Care Inc

The organization operates an adult day care facility in midland, texas which offers a multi-disciplinary, comprehensive health and activity program for frail and impaired elderly and disabled residents.

Health
2
Hospice of Wichita Falls Inc

Care, hope, and support for all when illness threatens life.

Human Services
3
Meals On Wheels of Odessa Inc

Meals on Wheels of Odessa enables people to live with dignity by offering community support and sustenance through coordinated services and enable older adults to live in their own homes safely and independently as long as they are able.

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4
Vail House Midland Inc

To provide high quality, individualized care and community inclusion for the people we serve so they can have full and happy lives.

Health
5
West Texas Food Bank

The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…

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6
Central Texas Children's Home

To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.

Human Services
7
Langtry Village Inc

Provide Low Income Housing for Elderly and Disabled

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8
Hospice of South Texas Inc

Hospice care of terminally ill patients

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9
Hospice of Texarkana

The hospice of texarkana operation provides care to the terminally ill and provides grief support to the community. hospice of texarkana also has an inpatient facility available for our patients to receive care.

Health
10
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Milam County
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11
Reece Endeavor of Midland

To meet the growing housing needs of people with special needs throughout Midland County - we want to offer them stability and affordability and help them become integrated into the community.

Philanthropy
12
West Texas Hero Homes Inc

Support of special needs military or first responders and their families.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Midland Texas Inc; the most unlike its peers is The West Texas Jazz Society 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

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 20 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S MINISTRY: $30,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY CHILDREN'S MINISTRYCASA DE AMIGOS OF MIDLAND: $28,000 · OtherCASA DE AMIGOS OF MIDLANDHillcrest School Inc: $25,000 · OtherHillcrest School IncHOSPICE OF MIDLAND INC: $20,000 · OtherHOSPICE OF MIDLAND INCIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $15,000 · OtherCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLSThe West Texas Jazz Society Inc: $15,000 · OtherThe West Texas Jazz Society IncIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMARC INC: $10,000 · OtherMARC INC+3 more: $15,000 · Other+3 moreBYNUM SCHOOL: $45,000 · EducationBYNUM SCHOOLMIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationMIDLAND COLLEGE FO…HIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC: $35,000 · HealthHIGH SKY CHILDR…WEST TEXAS GIFTS OF HOPE INC: $10,000 · HealthWEST TEXAS GIFT…SIBLEY ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentCASA OF WEST TEXAS: $15,000 · Civil RightsSENIOR LIFE MIDLAND INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF MIDLAND TEXAS INC: $5,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$183,000Education$55,000Health$45,000Environment$25,000Civil Rights$15,000Human Services$7,000Housing & Shelter$5,000

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

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
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.

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 Fo…Helen Greathouse Char…Beal FoundationScharbauer Foundation…Warren Charitable Fou…Yarborough FoundationThe Fasken FoundationPevehouse Family Foun…United Way of Midland…Chaparral FoundationFmh FoundationJames a Buddy Davidso…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Stinson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stinson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 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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