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The Louis L Stott Foundation at a glance

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The Louis L Stott 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.

$149k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$378kArts & Culture$301kRecreation & Sports$224kInternational$215kScience & Tech$56kHuman Services$54kHealth$51kCrime & Legal$48kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UKRAINE AID INTERNATIONAL INC$50,000
OPERA DELAWARE$40,000
TIDES FOUNDATION-BARAKA FUND$30,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
SOARING SOCIETY AMERICA$5,000
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHESTER$4,000
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER$4,000
CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK$4,000
KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE$4,000
NEW GARDEN FLYING FIELD$3,000
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 (FY20–24, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%TICK TOCK EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $5k → 6%KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE: $15k → 6%KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE: $8k → 6%KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE: $8k → 6%KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE: $5k → 6%KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE: $4k → 6%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

VT
MN
NY
PA
CT
CA
CO
MD
DE
NM
TN
DC
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 18 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
6

Total granted

$1.4M
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+45%

Still filing today

56%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
Human ServicesArts & CultureScience & TechPhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterRecreation & 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

  • OI
    OPERADELAWARE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $296k · revenue +49%
  • UA
    UKRAINE AID INTERNATIONAL INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $215k · revenue +46%
  • CC
    CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK
    5× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • SC
    SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY DAY CARE ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +45%
  • SS
    SOARING SOCIETY OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
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
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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2
Upmc Western Maryland Corporation

The mission of upmc western maryland is to serve our community by providing outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health system through clinical & technological innovation, research and education.

Health
3
Upmc Somerset

Our mission as an organization is to preserve and improve life by providing access to quality, customer-friendly healthcare services.

Health
4
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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5
Chambersburg Hospital

The chambersburg hospital is a regional non-profit health care organization committed to the improvement of the health and well-being of the people in southcentral pennsylvania.

Health
6
Pittsburgh Opera Inc

The mission of pittsburgh opera, inc. is to enrich pittsburgh and the tri-state area culturally and to draw national and international attention to the region. this commitment is comprised of four goals: creating opera productions which…

Arts & Culture
7
Manchester Academic Charter School
Education
8
Philadelphia Area Cooperative Alliance

To improve the lives of people in the philadelphia region by supporting democratically organized businesses, promoting the principles of the international cooperative movement, and growing the cooperative economy.

Membership Benefit
9
Maryland State Education Association

The maryland state education association empowers members to make a positive difference in their professional lives in order to elevate the quality of public education for all students.

Employment
10
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company

Chesapeake shakespeare company creates community through energetic, joyful, and accessible classic theatre, bringing our art to baltimore, the state of maryland, and beyond through innovative and comprehensible productions of shakespeare…

Arts & Culture
11
Artphilly

The mission of artphilly is to amplify philadelphia's arts and culture by commissioning, presenting, producing, and promoting art of all kinds for local audiences and the world. its vision is to spotlight(continued on schedule o)the city…

Arts & Culture
12
United Way Worldwide

To improve lives by mobilizing caring power of communities around the world to advance common good.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Southern Chester County; the most unlike its peers is Mars Society 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

14 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. 14 of the 27 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BARAKA FUND TIDES FOUNDATION: $200,000 · OtherBARAKA FUND TIDES FOUNDATIONBRANDYWINE SOARING ASSOCIATION: $135,000 · OtherBRANDYWINE SOARING ASSOCIATIONTIDES FOUNDATION-BARAKA FUND: $70,000 · OtherTIDES FOUNDATION-BARAKA FUNDIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER: $47,500 · OtherDOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTERAOPA AIR SAFETY FOUNDATION: $40,000 · OtherAOPA AIR SAFETY FOUNDATIONMAYO CLINIC: $35,000 · OtherCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK: $39,500 · OtherCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK+9 more: $46,000 · Other+9 moreTIDES FOUNDATION: $260,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATIONUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY: $47,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SOUTHE…OPERADELAWARE INC: $296,000 · Arts & CultureOPERADELAWARE INC+1 more: $4,000 · Arts & CultureUKRAINE AID INTERNATIONAL INC: $215,000 · Public Safety & DisasterUKRAINE AID IN…SOARING SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC: $80,000 · Recreation & SportsKENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE: $39,500 · Human ServicesDomestic Violence Center of Chester County: $9,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY DAY CARE ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · Human ServicesMars Society Inc: $50,000 · Science & Tech
Other$663,000Philanthropy$307,500Arts & Culture$300,000Public Safety & Disaster$215,000Recreation & Sports$80,000Human Services$53,500Science & Tech$50,000

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 budgetOPERADELAWARE INC: $296,000 over 8y, 4.6% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $260,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUKRAINE AID INTERNATIONAL INC: $215,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetSOARING SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC: $80,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetMars Society Inc: $50,000 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY: $47,500 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK: $39,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetKENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE: $39,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDomestic Violence Center of Chester County: $9,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY DAY CARE ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBALTIMORE CONCERT OPERA INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE TATNALL SCHOOL 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 OPERADELAWARE INC ↗
  • Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UKRAINE AID INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds SOARING SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds Mars Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds Domestic Violence Center of Chester County ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY DAY CARE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds BALTIMORE CONCERT OPERA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TATNALL SCHOOL 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.

Health and Welfare Fo…United Way of Chester…Chester County Commun…Wsfs Cares FoundationDelaware Community Fo…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Renaissance Charitabl…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
Health and Welfare Foundation of Southern Chester CountyPA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Health and Welfare Foundation of Southern Chester County · United Way of Chester County Inc · Chester County Community Foundation · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Louis L Stott Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Louis L Stott Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Operadelaware Inc: 9% of income from government
  • The Tatnall School Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 27 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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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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