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The Frank & Domna Stanton Foundation at a glance

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The Frank & Domna Stanton 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.

$33k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$101kEducation$49kInternational$10kHealth$9kFood & Nutrition$6kCivil Rights$5kHuman Services$4kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
$500
Median grant
4
States reached
$328k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BIRCH WATHEN LENOX SCHOOL$12,500
PARRISH ART MUSEUM$6,000
UNIQUE PROJECTS INC$5,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION$3,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC$1,000
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH$500
WSHU$250
SAVE THE CHILDREN$150
INNOCENCE PROJECT$100
THE FUND FOR PARK AVENUE$100
MS PRISON AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER PROGRAM$100
ISLAND HARVEST$100
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:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PAJAMA PROGRAM: $1k → 17%THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $1k → 14%ISLAND HARVEST: $100 → 7%THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $500 → 14%THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT TEEN AND UNPLANNED PREGNANCY: $5k → 14%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $1k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $100 → 17%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

NH
IL
NY
MA
OR
PA
CT
CA
VA
MD
NM
TN
DC
OK
AL
TX
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$158k · 33 repeat orgs$46k to everyone else

33 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
49

Total granted

$158k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+21%

Still filing today

79%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
Arts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionCivil RightsOther
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

  • TB
    THE BIRCH WATHEN LENOX SCHOOL
    2× · 2023–2024 · $25k · revenue +11%
  • TP
    THE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $22k · revenue +96%
  • WC
    Wellesley College
    2× · 2018–2019 · $15k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • JF
    JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTSgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +115%
  • PT
    POWER TO DECIDE
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +6%
  • MF
    MAISON FRANCAISE COLUMBINA UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2018 · $4k
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
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
4
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
5
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
6
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
7
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
8
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
9
Columbia University Press

Enhance Columbia University's education mission by acquiring and publishing outstanding original works by scholars and others that contribute to an understanding of global human concerns. Columbia University Press became part of the…

Arts & Culture
10
Manhattanville University

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

Education
11
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
12
Wnet

Wnet is a multi-media public service non-profit that delivers lifelong learning and meaningful experiences to our communities. our content inspires curiosity, encourages action and nurtures dreams.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Rights Inc; the most unlike its peers is Give Essential. 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

56 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. 56 of the 87 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)
55/56
Grantees still filing
36/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: $19,250 · OtherTHE METROPOLITAN OPERAMAISON FRANCAISE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $16,000 · OtherMAISON FRANCAISE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITYIndividual grant recipient: $8,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION: $5,475 · OtherMODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATIONMAISON FRANCAISE COLUMBINA UNIVERSITY: $4,000 · Other+44 more: $25,456 · Other+44 moreTHE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC: $21,500 · Arts & CultureTHE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INCFOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS INC: $11,500 · Arts & CultureFOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ART…JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $6,835 · Arts & CultureJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE …UNIQUE PROJECTS INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureUNIQUE PROJECTS INCMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $2,360 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $2,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $5,750 · Arts & Culture+7 moreTHE BIRCH WATHEN LENOX SCHOOL: $25,000 · EducationTHE BIRCH WATHEN LENOX…Wellesley College: $15,000 · EducationWellesley College+2 more: $600 · EducationHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $4,500 · InternationalSCHOLARS AT RISK INC: $2,500 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,000 · InternationalREFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,800 · InternationalFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $1,018 · InternationalUnited States Association for UNHCR: $1,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,000 · International+3 more: $750 · InternationalPOWER TO DECIDE: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $1,500 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $1,100 · Human ServicesBEYOND BEDTIME INC: $1,000 · Human Services+1 more: $100 · Human ServicesCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $1,620 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVEST INC: $870 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $750 · Food & NutritionGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $370 · Food & NutritionCHILDREN'S RIGHTS INC: $2,500 · Civil RightsNEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Civil Rights
Other$78,181Arts & Culture$54,945Education$40,600International$14,568Human Services$8,700Food & Nutrition$3,610Civil Rights$3,500

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 budgetTHE BIRCH WATHEN LENOX SCHOOL: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC: $21,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWellesley College: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS INC: $11,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $6,835 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOWER TO DECIDE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIQUE PROJECTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOLARS AT RISK INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S RIGHTS INC: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $2,360 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $2,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD HUDSON PECONIC INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $1,620 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBARENBOIM-SAID FOUNDATION (USA): $1,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCaramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAG HARBOR PARTNERSHIP INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,040 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $1,018 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE QUEENS LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK EDGE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTURY ASSOCIATION: $950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $870 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCE EXCHANGE INC: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetON SITE OPERA INC: $550 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJUSTICE FOR KURDS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Education Opportunity Network Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOLA OF EASTERN LONG ISLAND INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEST TEXAS FOOD BANK: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $370 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THIRTEEN INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $250 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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundThe Ford FoundationThe New York Communit…The Andrew W Mellon F…ImpactassetsincNational Philanthropi…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The Hilaria and Alec …The Roy & Niuta Titus…Altman FoundationThe Henry Luce Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…
Jewish Communal FundNY23.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Ford Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Impactassetsinc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Hilaria and Alec Baldwin Foundation Inc · The Roy & Niuta Titus Foundation · Altman Foundation · The Henry Luce Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Frank & Domna Stanton Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Frank & Domna Stanton Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
17report 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.
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Find your warmest path to The Frank & Domna Stanton 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 87 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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