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Sts 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.

$621k
Granted FY2022
157
Grants FY2022
25
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$435kArts & Culture$254kHealth$196kAnimals$97kHuman Services$96kEnvironment$89kRecreation & Sports$71kPhilanthropy$68kOther$0
02FY2022 · 157 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 157 grants below total $564,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $621,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $56,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k140 grants · $346k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $219k
$2,000
Median grant
25
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Lookingglass Theatre Company$30,000
National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum Inc.$15,000
Foxcroft School$15,000
Proctor Academy$15,000
Harlem RBI Inc, a/k/a Dream$15,000
Friends of the New Buffalo Library$14,500
Santa Barbara Maritime Museum$13,000
Lander Community Foundation$11,000
Trustees of Westminster School Inc.$10,000
Friends Involved in Dog Outreach$10,000
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago$10,000
Joe Torre Safe at Home Foundation$10,000
Marquis Grissom Baseball Association, Inc.$10,000
Lake Forest College$10,000
Friends of the Chicago River$10,000
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 120 repeat orgs$148k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

120 repeat relationships: 111 still active in FY2022, 9 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

120
38

Total granted

$1.3M
$102k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+33%

Still filing today

88%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • LT
    LOOKINGGLASS THEATRE COMPANY
    3× · 2020–2022 · $85k · revenue +81%
  • PA
    PROCTOR ACADEMY
    3× · 2020–2022 · $64k · revenue +38%
  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $56k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • SC
    SANTA CRUZ ISLAND FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue -55%
  • TM
    TERRA MARINE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION
    one grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue -41%
  • JS
    Jack & Shirley Lubetkin Center for the Arts
    one grant, 2021 · $6k
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.

03Its 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
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
2
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
3
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
4
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management

Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.

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5
Augustana College

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…

Education
6
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
7
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
8
Creekside Charter Management

To cultivate student success through mindful perseverance, critical thinking, resourcefulness and advanced knowledge that will prepare students for high levels of success in school, work, and life, while honoring the individuality and…

Education
9
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
10
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
11
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
12
Lake Champlain Land Trust Inc

The mission of the lake champlain land trust is to save the scenic beauty, natural communities, and recreational amenities of lake champlain by permanently preserving significant islands, shoreline areas, and natural communities in the…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Jackson Hole; the most unlike its peers is Friends Involved in Dog Outreach. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

149 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. 149 of the 185 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)
39
Early backer (in before they grew)
147/149
Grantees still filing
122/149
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PROCTOR ACADEMY: $64,000 · EducationPROCTOR ACADEMYTRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC: $56,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCH…Foxcroft School: $45,000 · EducationFoxcroft SchoolLake Forest College: $28,000 · EducationLake Forest CollegeLANDER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationLANDER COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONMILLBROOK SCHOOL: $15,000 · EducationDENVER CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $13,000 · Education+25 more: $125,000 · Education+25 moreFRIENDS OF THE NEW BUFFALO LIBRARY: $34,500 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE NEW BUFFALO LIBRARYHarlem RBI Inc, a/k/a Dream: $20,000 · OtherTHE LORD'S PLACE INC: $34,000 · OtherTHE LORD'S PLACE INC+83 more: $453,700 · Other+83 moreLOOKINGGLASS THEATRE COMPANY: $85,000 · Arts & CultureLOOKINGGLASS THEATR…NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL BASEBALL H…SANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM: $25,500 · Arts & CultureSANTA BARBARA MARIT…CARPINTERIA ARTS CENTER: $25,000 · Arts & CultureCARPINTERIA ARTS CE…FRIENDS OF THE CHICAGO RIVER: $19,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE CHIC…SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $11,000 · Arts & Culture+12 more: $59,000 · Arts & Culture+12 moreAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $54,500 · HealthAnn & Rob…St John's Health Foundation: $15,000 · HealthSt John's…Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation: $9,000 · HealthSanta Bar…University of Chicago Cancer Research Foundation: $6,000 · HealthDartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center: $5,000 · HealthRush University Medical Center: $5,000 · HealthCANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA: $4,000 · HealthFoundation for Cottage Rehab and Goleta Valley Cottage Hosp: $4,000 · Health+8 more: $17,000 · Health+8 moreGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION: $11,000 · EnvironmentLAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION: $9,000 · EnvironmentGRAND STAIRCASE - ESCALANTE PARTNERS INC: $8,000 · EnvironmentSouthern Utah Wilderness Alliance: $8,000 · EnvironmentJACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST: $6,500 · EnvironmentWYOMING OUTDOOR COUNCIL: $6,000 · EnvironmentJACKSON HOLE ONE FLY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EnvironmentCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $3,000 · EnvironmentCHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE: $3,000 · EnvironmentTETON SCIENCE SCHOOLS INC: $3,000 · EnvironmentASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST: $3,000 · EnvironmentSNAKE RIVER FUND: $2,500 · Environment+1 more: $2,000 · EnvironmentMGBA Inc: $28,000 · Recreation & SportsBUFFALO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC: $26,000 · Recreation & SportsJACKSON HOLE SKI & SNOWBOARD CLUB: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsNorthwestern University: $3,000 · Recreation & SportsOutreach with Lacrosse Schools: $2,500 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Human ServicesGorton Community Center: $15,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesLUFKIN ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $4,800 · Human ServicesHELP FOR HEALTH: $3,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $3,000 · Human Services+7 more: $11,500 · Human Services
Education$366,000Other$542,200Arts & Culture$259,500Health$119,500Environment$70,000Recreation & Sports$66,500Human Services$62,300

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 budgetLOOKINGGLASS THEATRE COMPANY: $85,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetPROCTOR ACADEMY: $64,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC: $56,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $54,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFoxcroft School: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LORD'S PLACE INC: $34,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMGBA Inc: $28,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetLake Forest College: $28,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBUFFALO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC: $26,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetSANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM: $25,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCARPINTERIA ARTS CENTER: $25,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetLANDER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHICAGO RIVER: $19,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $17,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBIGFORK FOOD BANK INC: $17,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetFriends Involved in Dog Outreach: $16,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetSt John's Health Foundation: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMILLBROOK SCHOOL: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGorton Community Center: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF CARPINTERIA: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCHELSEA'S FUND: $13,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE SERVICE CLUB OF CHICAGO: $13,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetDENVER CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $13,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE FOREST COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDENISON UNIVERSITY: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCATE SCHOOL: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEONBERGER HEALTH FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrey Duffy Scholarship Foundation: $9,500 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetCHICAGO CITY DAY SCHOOL: $9,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST ANDREW'S SCHOOL: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSUBLETTE COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetGRAND STAIRCASE - ESCALANTE PARTNERS INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSouthern Utah Wilderness Alliance: $8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $7,000 over 2y, 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.

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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Wyoming Community Fou…Ann Jackson Family Fo…Panoram Foundation IncCommunity Foundation …Bill Bartholomay Foun…Hutton Foundation Dba…Santa Barbara Foundat…Alice Tweed Tuohy Fou…Mosher FoundationFirst Interstate Banc…Fairview FoundationJune G Outhwaite Char…
Wyoming Community FoundationWY29× affinity13 shared granteesties to 5 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wyoming Community Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Panoram Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · Bill Bartholomay Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · Mosher Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Fairview Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr

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.
04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Sts Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Sts 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 185 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $578k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home