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The Catherine F & James H Stentzel Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$94k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$277k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAIRNESS WEST VIRGINIA INSTITUTE$45,000
BENEVOLENCE FARM$20,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
BELOVED BUILDERS$10,000
ACLU FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA$5,000
FRIENDS OF SILENCE$2,000
FLORIDA COMMUNITY OF MINDFULNESS$2,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $87k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BELOVED BUILDERS: $20k → 12%HANDI-CRAFTERS: $1k → 6%EDGEHILL NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP: $10k → 14%BELOVED BUILDERS: $10k → 12%EDGEHILL NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP: $10k → 14%BELOVED BUILDERS: $10k → 12%EDGEHILL NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP: $8k → 14%EDGEHILL NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP: $7k → 14%EDGEHILL NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP: $6k → 14%EDGEHILL NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP: $5k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$807k · 17 repeat orgs$96k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
17

Total granted

$807k
$86k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+14%

Still filing today

82%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesCivil 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • EF
    EQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $225k · revenue +115%
  • UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
    5× · 2019–2023 · $115k · revenue +8%
  • FW
    FAIRNESS WV INSTITUTE INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $100k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • FP
    FAIRNESS PENNSYLVANIA INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2023 · $17k
  • MC
    METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
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

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
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
2
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
3
The Dome School

Teaching whole child using thematic curriculum, conflict resolution,self esteem, non-violent solutions to problems. bringing community sogether socially, serving nutritious meals.

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4
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.

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5
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
6
National Association of Independent Schools Inc

As the largest association of independent schools, nais co-creates the future of education by uniting and empowering our community. we do this through thought leadership, research, creation and curation of resources, and direct…

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7
Fielding Graduate University

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.

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8
Faith in Public Life Inc

Faith in public life's mission is to advance the moral imperative for a just, inclusive and equitable country that allows each of us to live into our full humanity. we do this by building power and cultures of belongings among diverse…

Religion
9
Enterprise Community Investment Inc

All our efforts support our strategic goals to increase housing supply, advance racial equity and build resilience and upward mobility.the organization raises private capital through investment and by forming effective partnerships.…

Housing & Shelter
10
The Field School Inc

Students discover their authentic selves and distinctive paths to become empathetic, creative thinkers who act boldly to shape our shared future. see schedule o

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11
Claremont Lincoln University

Delivers affordable, accessible, and relevant higher education programs.

Education
12
Embracing Equity Inc

Embracing equity cultivates the mindsets and practices necessary to create an affirming, inclusive, and equitable educational ecosystem.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Courage & Renewal; the most unlike its peers is Emmaus Housing. 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

18 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. 18 of the 35 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
15/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC: $225,000 · Civil RightsEQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INCFAIRNESS WV INSTITUTE INC: $100,000 · Civil RightsFAIRNESS WV INSTITUTE INCACLU OF FLORIDA: $100,000 · OtherACLU OF FLORIDAFLORIDA KEYS OUTREACH COALITION INC: $30,175 · OtherFLORIDA KEYS OUTREACH COALITION IN…ACLU FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA: $25,000 · OtherACLU FOUNDATION OF FLORIDAFAIRNESS PENNSYLVANIA INSTITUTE: $17,000 · OtherFAIRNESS PENNSYLVANIA INSTITUTEKOINONIA FARM INC: $16,000 · OtherKOINONIA FARM INCMETROPOLITAN COMMUNITY CHURCH: $10,117 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · Other+13 more: $46,300 · Other+13 moreUNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $115,000 · EducationUNION THEOLOGICAL …LAUREL SCHOOL: $17,500 · EducationLAUREL SCHOOLMONROE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · EducationMONROE COUNTY EDUC…+1 more: $2,000 · EducationEDGEHILL NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP: $46,000 · Human ServicesEDGEHILL N…BELOVED BUILDERS INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesBELOVED BU…+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesINTERFAITH PEACE-BUILDERS: $28,000 · InternationalBORDERLINKS: $12,000 · InternationalBENEVOLENCE FARM: $24,000 · Housing & ShelterEMMAUS HOUSING: $5,000 · Housing & Shelter
Civil Rights$325,000Other$274,592Education$147,000Human Services$87,000International$40,000Housing & Shelter$29,000

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

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
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 EQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
  • Who funds FAIRNESS WV INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds EDGEHILL NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds BELOVED BUILDERS INC ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA KEYS OUTREACH COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERFAITH PEACE-BUILDERS ↗
  • Who funds BENEVOLENCE FARM ↗
  • Who funds LAUREL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds KOINONIA FARM INC ↗
  • Who funds MONROE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BORDERLINKS ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF SILENCE ↗
  • Who funds Beyond Differences ↗
  • Who funds EMMAUS HOUSING ↗
  • Who funds CHERRY CREEK SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR COURAGE & RENEWAL ↗
  • Who funds HANDI-CRAFTERS INC ↗

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 →

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Catherine F & James H Stentzel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Catherine F & James H Stentzel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 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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