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The Catherine F & James H Stentzel Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$94k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
44%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$45,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 14
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$277k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 44% of the organizations The Catherine F & James H Stentzel Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationCivil RightsInternationalHousing & 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving7$94k14%
FY20239$180k44%
FY20229$120k56%
FY20219$89k22%
FY202014$169k21%
FY20199$101k33%
FY201811$84k27%
FY201714$67kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Civil Rights$528kEducation$164kReligion$67kCommunity Improvement$46kHousing & Shelter$45kFood & Nutrition$26kCrime & Legal$24kEmployment$1kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
WV
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 20 grantees
All grantees of The Catherine F & James H Stentzel Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Equality Florida Institute Inc$225,00071%
Union Theological Seminary$115,00050%
Fairness Wv Institute Inc$100,00037%
Edgehill Neighborhood Partnership$46,00066%
Beloved Builders Inc$40,00031%
Florida Keys Outreach Coalition Inc$30,17550%
Interfaith Peace-Builders$28,00042%
Benevolence Farm$24,00032%
Laurel School$17,50060%
Koinonia Farm Inc$16,00041%
Monroe County Education Foundation Inc$12,50020%
Borderlinks$12,00022%
Friends of Silence$6,40033%
Beyond Differences$5,00020%
Emmaus Housing$5,0001n/a
Florida Community of Mindfulnes Inc$4,0002n/a
Cherry Creek Schools Foundation$3,00010%
St Agnes Catholic Church$2,0001n/a
Center for Courage & Renewal$2,00010%
Handi-Crafters Inc$1,00010%

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($208k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Catherine F & James H Stentzel Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEquality Florida Institute Inc: $225,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetUnion Theological Seminary: $115,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFairness Wv Institute Inc: $100,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetEdgehill Neighborhood Partnership: $46,000 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetBeloved Builders Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetFlorida Keys Outreach Coalition Inc: $30,175 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetInterfaith Peace-Builders: $28,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetBenevolence Farm: $24,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetLaurel School: $17,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKoinonia Farm Inc: $16,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMonroe County Education Foundation Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBorderlinks: $12,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetFriends of Silence: $6,400 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetBeyond Differences: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCherry Creek Schools Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCenter for Courage & Renewal: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHandi-Crafters Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA8.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

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About The Catherine F & James H Stentzel Foundation

How much does The Catherine F & James H Stentzel Foundation give?
The Catherine F & James H Stentzel Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $94,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Catherine F & James H Stentzel Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (58%), Education (18%), Religion (7%).
Who are The Catherine F & James H Stentzel Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Equality Florida Institute Inc ($225k), Union Theological Seminary ($115k), Fairness Wv Institute Inc ($100k).
Does The Catherine F & James H Stentzel Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Catherine F & James H Stentzel Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Catherine F & James H Stentzel Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is The Catherine F & James H Stentzel Foundation based?
The Catherine F & James H Stentzel Foundation is based in WV.

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 35 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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