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The a C and Ella Long Stanfield at a glance

· Private foundation

The a C and Ella Long Stanfield

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.

$130k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0180% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$354kHuman Services$120kAnimals$88kReligion$31kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $119k
$14,926
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$14,926
AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION$14,926
DIABETES ASSOCIATION OF ATLANTA$14,926
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC$14,926
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$14,926
THE SALVATION ARMY A GEORGIA CORP$14,926
HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA OF$14,926
Individual grant recipient$14,926
FLAT ROCK CEMETERY CARE INC$5,296
LIBERTY HILL BAPTIST CHURCH SBC$5,296
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 74% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $20k → 12%AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $20k → 5%LIBERTY HILL BAPTIST CHURCH SBC: $7k → 8%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $20k → 8%SOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN HOSPICE: $20k → 13%THE SALVATION ARMY: $20k → 14%FLAT ROCK CEMETERY CARE INC: $7k → 15%THE SALVATION ARMY A GEORGIA CORP: $15k → 9%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $20k → 12%AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $20k → 5%LIBERTY HILL BAPTIST CHURCH SBC: $7k → 8%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $20k → 8%SOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN HOSPICE: $20k → 13%THE SALVATION ARMY A GEORGIA CORP: $20k → 14%FLAT ROCK CEMETERY CARE INC: $7k → 15%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $17k → 12%AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $17k → 5%LIBERTY HILL BAPTIST CHURCH SBC: $6k → 8%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $15k → 8%SOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN HOSPICE: $17k → 13%THE SALVATION ARMY: $17k → 14%FLAT ROCK CEMETERY CARE INC: $6k → 15%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $17k → 12%AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $17k → 5%LIBERTY HILL BAPTIST CHURCH SBC: $6k → 8%SOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN HOSPICE: $17k → 13%THE SALVATION ARMY: $17k → 14%FLAT ROCK CEMETERY CARE INC: $6k → 15%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $15k → 12%AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $15k → 5%LIBERTY HILL BAPTIST CHURCH SBC: $5k → 8%SOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN HOSPICE: $15k → 13%FLAT ROCK CEMETERY CARE INC: $5k → 15%DIABETES ASSOCIATION OF ATLANTA: $20k → 13%HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA OF: $15k → 15%DIABETES ASSOCIATION OF ATLANTA: $20k → 13%RIVERDALE FIRST UMC: $20k → 15%DIABETES ASSOCIATION OF ATLANTA: $17k → 13%RIVERDALE FIRST UMC: $20k → 15%DIABETES ASSOCIATION OF ATLANTA: $17k → 13%RIVERDALE FIRST UMC: $17k → 15%DIABETES ASSOCIATION OF ATLANTA: $15k → 13%RIVERDALE FIRST UMC: $17k → 15%RIVERDALE FIRST UMC: $15k → 15%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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$770k · 11 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
0

Total granted

$770k
$0

Still filing today

36%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

  • DA
    DIABETES ASSOCIATION OF ATLANTA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $88k · revenue +16%
  • AL
    AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $88k · revenue +14%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $88k · revenue +53%

Funded once

    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
    04the grantee network

    4 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. 4 of the 11 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)
    0
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    4/4
    Grantees still filing
    3/4
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    DIABETES ASSOCIATION OF ATLANTA INC: $88,408 · OtherDIABETES ASSOCIATION OF ATLANTA INCHUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA OF: $88,408 · OtherHUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA OFIndividual grant recipient: $88,408 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $88,408 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE SALVATION ARMY: $88,407 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $34,444 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCFLAT ROCK CEMETERY CARE INC: $31,370 · OtherFLAT ROCK CEMETERY CARE INCLIBERTY HILL BAPTIST CHURCH SBC: $31,369 · OtherLIBERTY HILL BAPTIST CHURCH SBCAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $88,408 · HealthAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATIONAmerican Heart Association Inc: $88,408 · HealthAmerican Heart Association IncAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $53,963 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
    Other$539,222Health$230,779

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

    25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDIABETES ASSOCIATION OF ATLANTA INC: $88,408 over 5y, 7.8% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $88,408 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $88,408 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $53,963 over 3y, 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.

    • Who funds DIABETES ASSOCIATION OF ATLANTA INC ↗
    • Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
    • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
    • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗

    How much its grantees rely on government

    Each dot is one organization The a C and Ella Long Stanfield funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The a C and Ella Long Stanfield. Bigger dots raise more.

    2025
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
      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 · 0–25%
      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 11 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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