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The Mary Peace Sterling Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $2k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $170k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PEACE CENTER | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $50,000 |
| ABUNDANCE CAPITAL | $45,000 |
| BREAD FOR THE WORLD | $30,000 |
| CENTER FOR COMM SELF | $25,000 |
| UPCOUNTRY | $25,000 |
| YMCA | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| MIAMI CITY BALLET | $10,000 |
| EXCHANGE FOR CHANGE | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–23, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- FUFURMAN UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +26%
- PCPEACE CENTER FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $450k · revenue +79%
- UOUniversity of Miami3× · 2020–2025 · $125k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- LLLEUKEMIA LYMPHOMAone grant, 2024 · $50k
- TBTHE BILL HILLARY AND CHELSone grant, 2024 · $50k
- SFSt Francis Foundationone grant, 2017 · $45k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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Research and education of United Nations activities
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The auschwitz institute for the prevention of genocide and mass atrocities is dedicated to building a world that prevents genocide. we aim to see every state effectively integrate within government the domestically developed function of…
Inspired by Jewish values and ideals, MAZON is a national advocacy organization working to end hunger among people of all faiths and backgrounds in the United States and Israel. See Schedule O for more details.
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The institute is a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the united states and globally.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Services of South Florida Inc and the most unlike its peers is Favor Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 44 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FURMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PEACE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds Bread For The World Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FAVOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAVOR INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MIAMI CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds ABUNDANCE CAPITAL ↗
- Who funds AMERICA GIVES INC ↗
- Who funds Bread for the World Institute ↗
- Who funds UPCOUNTRY HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Exchange for Change Inc ↗
- Who funds TROPICAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HOMELANDS RESEARCH GROUP ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Dog Ranch Rescue Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Jolley Foundation · Yeargin Foundation · Charles Timmons Foundation · Hollingsworth Funds Inc · The Maddrey Foundation · Scsymmes Foundation · John I Smith Charities Inc · Bill and Connie Timmons Foundation · Daniel-Mickel Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · American Endowment Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Mary Peace Sterling Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Favor Inc — 100% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Jewish Community Services of South Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
- Guitars Over Guns Organization Inc — 1% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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