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The Michael and Nina 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.

$212k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2024
17
Organizations funded FY2023
47%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$4,600
Largest grant, FY2024
$78,600
Organizations funded a year
7 to 18
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$1.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 47% of the organizations The Michael and Nina Stanton Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEnvironmentInternationalEducationCivil RightsAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving18$212k17%
FY202317$191k47%
FY202216$138k44%
FY202118$190k50%
FY20207$107k29%
FY201914$51k57%
FY201816$150k88%
FY201715$38kn/a
93% 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$660kInternational$258kHealth$35kHuman Services$31kEducation$22kEnvironment$21kCivil Rights$14kAnimals$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
IL
WI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 32 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($123k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Michael and Nina Stanton Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCaramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc: $387,300 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $242,575 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFractured Atlas Inc: $119,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Performance Zone Inc: $45,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBedford Playhouse Inc: $22,690 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $18,108 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Parrish Art Museum Inc: $15,900 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetChildren's Rights Inc: $13,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Botanical Garden: $10,720 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWolf Conservation Center Inc: $7,750 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTibet Fund Inc: $5,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGabrielle's Angel Foundation for Cancer Research Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFox Lane High School Association: $5,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetMianus River Gorge Inc: $4,600 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWave Hill Incorporated: $2,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCovenant House: $1,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFuture 5 Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMeals on Wheels Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOneSight: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMeals-on-Wheels of New Rochelle Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBroadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Helicon Foundation Inc: $650 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNew York Edge Inc: $531 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWestmoreland Sanctuary Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWhale and Dolphin Conservationinc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOcean Conservancy: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarch of Dimes Inc: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 30.

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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 FundNY17.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Ibm International Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving 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.

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About The Michael and Nina Stanton Foundation

How much does The Michael and Nina Stanton Foundation give?
The Michael and Nina Stanton Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $212,020 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Michael and Nina Stanton Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (61%), International (24%), Health (3%).
Who are The Michael and Nina Stanton Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc ($387k), United States Fund for Unicef ($243k), Fractured Atlas Inc ($120k).
Does The Michael and Nina Stanton Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Michael and Nina Stanton Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Michael and Nina Stanton Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The New York Community Trust, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is The Michael and Nina Stanton Foundation based?
The Michael and Nina Stanton Foundation is based in NY.

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 66 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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