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Stuart Four Square Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$53k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Arts & Culture$153kEducation$133kHealth$102kPhilanthropy$16kCivil Rights$11kHuman Services$7kEnvironment$1kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $32k
$2,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$799k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL$12,000
EQUI CENTER$10,000
S'COOL SOUNDS INC$10,000
VICTOR ASSOCIATION OF CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS INC - COBBLESTONE ARTS$6,000
DEVEREUX FOUNDATION-POCONO CENTER$5,000
COMMONWEAL$3,000
MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC$2,000
BROWN UNIVERSITY$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
LITTLE RED SCHOOL HOUSE INC$1,000
BANK STREET SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN$1,000
VILLAGE COMMUNITIY SCHOOL$1,000
BATH TOWNSHIP COMMUNITY DEV CORP$200
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%COMMONWEAL: $3k → 8%COMMONWEALTH: $3k → 8%COMMONWEALTH: $2k → 8%COMMONWEALTH: $2k → 8%COMMONWEALTH: $2k → 8%COMMONWEALTH: $2k → 8%COMMONWEAL: $2k → 8%COMMONWEALTH: $2k → 8%COMMONWEALTH: $2k → 8%ROCHESTER ROTARY CHARITABLE TRUSTS INC: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$412k · 17 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
3

Total granted

$412k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+108%
+122%

Still filing today

59%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 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
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthCivil RightsEducationOther

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

  • NC
    NORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +108%
  • EI
    EQUICENTER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $87k · revenue +207%
  • TV
    THE VICTOR ASSOCIATION OF CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS AKA COBBLESTONE ARTS CTR
    8× · 2018–2025 · $41k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • KC
    KIWANIS CLUB OF CANANDAIGUA
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
  • MF
    MERCY FLIGHT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +122%
  • RR
    ROCHESTER ROTARY CHARITABLE TRUSTS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +6%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Compass Charter School

Compass charter school is a safe and nurturing educational environment that honors the individuality of each learner. by engaging in a process of inquiry, our graduates will be equipped with the necessary skills to lead fulfilling personal…

Education
2
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
3
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
4
The Storm King School

The storm king school, a global community, prepares students by inspiring them toward academic success and confidence in an inclusive and diverse learning environment that embraces character, balance, and trust.

Education
5
South Shore Charter School

The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…

Education
6
Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall School

We engage a diverse community of learners in a collaborative educational experience, preparing them for college success and a lifetime of meaningful engagement with the broader world.

7
University Cooperative School

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.

8
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
9
Buckley Country Day School

The school's mission is grounded in the belief expressed by b. lord buckley that opening the eyes and awakening the mind is the essence of education. guided by that mission for almost a century, buckley has purposely focused on developing…

Education
10
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
11
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
12
Open New York Education Inc

Open new york education, inc. supports public education, awareness, and engagement around housing issues to help build a movement for a more abundant and inclusive new york.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Little Red School House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Commonweal. 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

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
12/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL INC — $90,000 · OtherNORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL INCDEVEREUX FOUNDATION-POCONO CENTER — $45,000 · OtherDEVEREUX FOUNDATION-POCONO CENTERTIDES FOUNDATION — $16,000 · OtherTIDES FOUNDATIONLITTLE RED SCHOOL HOUSE INC — $10,000 · OtherLITTLE RED SCHOOL HOUSE INC+8 more — $20,900 · Other+8 moreTHE VICTOR ASSOCIATION OF CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS AKA COBBLESTONE ARTS CTR — $41,000 · Arts & CultureTHE VICTOR ASSOCIATION OF CU…THE OPPORTUNITY AGENDA INC — $35,000 · Arts & CultureTHE OPPORTUNITY AGENDA INCSCOOL SOUNDS INC — $27,500 · Arts & CultureSCOOL SOUNDS INCRADIO CATSKILL WJFF — $4,000 · Arts & CultureEQUICENTER INC — $87,000 · HealthEQUICENTER INCCOMMONWEAL — $19,500 · Human ServicesROCHESTER ROTARY CHARITABLE TRUSTS INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesBROWN UNIVERSITY — $12,000 · Community ImprovementMS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC — $11,000 · Civil RightsVILLAGE COMMUNITY SCHOOL — $7,500 · Education
Other$181,900Arts & Culture$107,500Health$87,000Human Services$20,500Community Improvement$12,000Civil Rights$11,000Education$7,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL INC — $90,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetEQUICENTER INC — $87,000 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetTHE VICTOR ASSOCIATION OF CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS AKA COBBLESTONE ARTS CTR — $41,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHE OPPORTUNITY AGENDA INC — $35,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSCOOL SOUNDS INC — $27,500 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetCOMMONWEAL — $19,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC — $11,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLITTLE RED SCHOOL HOUSE INC — $10,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetVILLAGE COMMUNITY SCHOOL — $7,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRADIO CATSKILL WJFF — $4,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMERCY FLIGHT INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCHESTER ROTARY CHARITABLE TRUSTS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 NORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds EQUICENTER INC
  • Who funds THE VICTOR ASSOCIATION OF CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS AKA COBBLESTONE ARTS CTR
  • Who funds THE OPPORTUNITY AGENDA INC
  • Who funds SCOOL SOUNDS INC
  • Who funds COMMONWEAL
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC
  • Who funds LITTLE RED SCHOOL HOUSE INC
  • Who funds VILLAGE COMMUNITY SCHOOL
  • Who funds RADIO CATSKILL WJFF
  • Who funds MERCY FLIGHT INC
  • Who funds ROCHESTER ROTARY CHARITABLE TRUSTS INC

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY13.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Stuart Four Square Fund 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Stuart Four Square Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Stuart Four Square Fund 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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