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Stranahan 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k39 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k25 grants · $2.4M
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC | $250,000 |
| EDVANCE | $150,000 |
| ALL OUR KIN INC | $150,000 |
| NEW PROFIT INC | $150,000 |
| SOBRATO EARLY ACADEMIC LANGUAGE PROGRAM | $150,000 |
| SAVANNA INSTITUTE | $149,000 |
| EARLY YEARS INC | $125,000 |
| NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR FAMILY CHILD CARE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| URBAN SPROUTS | $100,000 |
| JEREMIAH PROGRAM | $100,000 |
| THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP | $100,000 |
| FELTON INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| SANTA FE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE OF S INDIANA | $100,000 |
| REGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA | $86,800 |
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 (FY19–24, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% 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 +31% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
135 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2024, 88 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $986k 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
THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC5× · 2019–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +27%- JFJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC3× · 2019–2021 · $1.0M · revenue +3%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2022 · $719k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- RSREGINALD S LOURIE CENTER FOR INFANTS AND YOUNG CHILDREN INCone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +9%
- LFLENA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue -44%
- BBBRIGHT BEGINNINGS INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +122%
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.
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.
We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mima Music. 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 34 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% 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.
187 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. 187 of the 210 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds JUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE WILDFLOWER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds SAVANNA INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Rodale Institute ↗
- Who funds NEW PROFIT INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds Atlanta Speech School Inc ↗
- Who funds ALL OUR KIN INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDVANCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE OF SOUTHERN INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds SOBRATO EARLY ACADEMIC LANGUAGE PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL SELF RELIANCE ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds EARLY YEARS INC ↗
- Who funds REGINALD S LOURIE CENTER FOR INFANTS AND YOUNG CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Make Way For Books ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KALAMAZOO MI ↗
- Who funds THE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds QUIVIRA COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds National Association For Family Child Care ↗
- Who funds THE UNIV OF MONTANA-WESTERN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF DISTRICT IX INC ↗
- Who funds DAVID LAWRENCE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds REALIZE BRADENTON INC ↗
- Who funds LOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds LA COMPOST ↗
- Who funds HIGHSCOPE EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRACTICAL FARMERS OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds GALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
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: Toledo Community Foundation Inc · The O-I Charities Foundation · The Andersons Fund Supporting Organization · United Way of Greater Toledo · Toledo Community Foundation Inc Seneca Fund · The Stranahan Supporting Organization · John Henry Eldred Jr Foundation · Entelco Foundation · Andersons Foundation · Dana Charitable Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Promedica Health System Inc
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 Stranahan 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.
- Reginald S Lourie Center for Infants and Young Children Inc — 45% of income from government
- Community Action Project of Tulsa County Inc — 37% of income from government
- Adelante Mujeres — 31% of income from government
- Housing Assistance Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- Brewster Conservation Trust — 8% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Zumix Inc — 5% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- David Lawrence Mental Health Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- All Our Kin Inc — 1% of income from government
- Connecticut Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc — 0% of income from government
- Avow Hospice Inc — 0% of income from government
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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