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The John R and Inge P Stafford Foundation at a glance

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The John R and Inge P Stafford Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$56k
Granted FY2022
7
Grants FY2022
6
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

90% of The John R and Inge P Stafford Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund For Wealth Management Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year The John R and Inge P Stafford Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $56k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

9
’17
15
’18
13
’19
11
’20
1
’21
6
’22
4
’23

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Philanthropy$1.9MEducation$331kHealth$88kEnvironment$40kFood & Nutrition$22kHuman Services$17kReligion$10kCivil Rights$10kOther$0
02FY2022 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k5 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION$20,000
CONCORD ACADEMY$10,000
PEIRCE EXTENDED DAY PROGRAM$6,000
CARE$5,000
COMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTHERN WESTCH$5,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$5,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NEIGHBORS LINK: $500 → 9%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

NY
MA
PA
NJ
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
LA
AL
GA
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$519k · 17 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +72% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2022, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
8

Total granted

$519k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%
+43%

Still filing today

82%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureHealthInternationalEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • DICKINSON COLLEGE
    3× · 2017–2019 · $150k · revenue +39%
  • THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH
    4× · 2019–2023 · $70k · revenue +338%
  • CA
    CONCORD ACADEMY
    5× · 2018–2022 · $60k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -54%
  • EU
    EMERSON UMBRELLA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +43%
  • SJ
    ST JOHN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
2
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
3
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
4
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
5
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
6
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
7
Manhattanville University

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

Education
8
Dean College

Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…

Education
9
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
10
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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11
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
12
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bucknell University; the most unlike its peers is Island Health & Wellness Center Inc. 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

23 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. 23 of the 29 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
20/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC: $1,849,639 · PhilanthropyGS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INCDICKINSON COLLEGE: $150,000 · EducationDICKINSON COL…CONCORD ACADEMY: $60,000 · EducationCONCORD ACADE…PEIRCE EXTENDED DAY PROGRAM INC: $21,000 · EducationPEIRCE EXTEND…Emory University: $15,000 · EducationCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $14,500 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY: $14,000 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $11,000 · Education+3 more: $6,500 · EducationTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $70,000 · HealthIsland Health & Wellness Center Inc: $15,000 · HealthTHE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA: $40,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherST JOHN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $10,000 · OtherWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 · OtherCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $5,000 · Other+5 more: $5,500 · OtherThe Great Pond Foundation Inc: $40,000 · EnvironmentWHYHUNGER INC: $19,500 · Arts & CultureEMERSON UMBRELLA INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTHERN WESTCHESTER INC: $16,000 · Recreation & Sports
Philanthropy$1,849,639Education$292,000Health$85,000Other$100,500Environment$40,000Arts & Culture$24,500Recreation & Sports$16,000

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 budgetGS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC: $1,849,639 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDICKINSON COLLEGE: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORD ACADEMY: $60,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Great Pond Foundation Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetPEIRCE EXTENDED DAY PROGRAM INC: $21,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetWHYHUNGER INC: $19,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTHERN WESTCHESTER INC: $16,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetIsland Health & Wellness Center Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetEmory University: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $14,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMERSON UMBRELLA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBucknell University: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEWTON FOOD PANTRY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE HUDSON VALLEY: $500 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.

Boston Foundation IncGs Donor Advised Phil…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…The Pfizer Foundation…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
Boston Foundation IncMA12.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 John R and Inge P Stafford Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The John R and Inge P Stafford Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Emerson Umbrella Inc: 1% of income from government
  • New England Conservatory of Music: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 John R and Inge P Stafford 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 29 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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