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The Mr and Mrs Robert J Stetson Fdn

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$52k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$132kArts & Culture$48kHealth$41kEducation$33kHuman Services$26kReligion$20kFood & Nutrition$20kRecreation & Sports$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$2,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$888k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$20,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$6,000
BEREA COLLEGE$3,000
PRESTON HOLLOW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$2,500
THE JAYSON TATUM FOUNDATION$2,200
OUR FRIENDS PLACE$2,000
MEALS ON WHEELS - FT COLLINS$2,000
THE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM$2,000
TELLURIDE FOOUNDATION$2,000
DALLAS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM CTR$2,000
VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION$2,000
UCROSS FDN$2,000
KIDSPACE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM$1,000
WASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY$1,000
UNITED CHURCH OF SAN JUAN$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAIR CHANCE: $1k → 14%Fair Chance: $1k → 14%Fair Chance: $1k → 14%FAIR CHANCE: $1k → 14%FAIR CHANCE: $250 → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $2k → 14%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
OR
WY
IN
CT
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
DC
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$293k · 22 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against -21% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
21

Total granted

$293k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
-21%

Still filing today

59%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
EducationArts & CultureInternationalPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +98%
  • UF
    UCROSS FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $18k · revenue +19%
  • TP
    THE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +185%

Funded once

  • PS
    POLYTECHNIC SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +39%
  • SM
    SAINT MARKS SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • PH
    Polytechnic High School
    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
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
2
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
3
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
4
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
5
George Fox University

George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.

Education
6
Thomas Jefferson School of Law

The mission of the school is to provide outstanding legal education in a collegial and supportive environment with attention to newly emerging areas of law, particularly those related to technological development, globalization and the…

Education
7
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

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8
Global Citizens Public Charter School

Global citizens school's mission is to inspire and prepare the next generation or global citizens. we will do this by supporting students, ages 3-11, to reach their full academic and leadership potential in a nurturing learning…

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9
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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10
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
11
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
12
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wikimedia Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Carbon Tax Center. 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

26 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. 26 of the 47 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
15/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $120,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCTHE GEANCO FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 · InternationalTHE GEANCO FOUNDATION INCPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $32,500 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODPRESTON HOLLOW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH FDN: $16,000 · OtherPRESTON HOLLOW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH FDNOUR FRIENDS PLACE: $13,000 · OtherOUR FRIENDS PLACEMEALS ON WHEELS - FT COLLINS: $11,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS - FT COLLINSDALLAS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM CTR: $10,000 · OtherDALLAS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM CTRVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION: $7,500 · OtherVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATIONMEALS ON WHEELS - VNA: $5,500 · OtherSAINT MARKS SCHOOL: $5,000 · OtherPolytechnic High School: $4,500 · Other+20 more: $27,510 · Other+20 moreBEREA COLLEGE: $6,000 · EducationPOLYTECHNIC SCHOOL: $5,000 · EducationGolden View Classical Academy: $3,000 · EducationWashington and Lee University: $3,000 · EducationWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $2,250 · EducationCARBON TAX CENTER: $1,000 · Education+1 more: $200 · EducationUCROSS FOUNDATION: $18,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JAYSON TATUM FOUNDATION: $2,200 · PhilanthropyTHE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INC: $16,000 · Arts & CultureDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum: $2,000 · Arts & CultureKIDSPACE A PARTICIPATORY MUSEUM: $1,000 · Arts & CultureFAIR CHANCE: $4,250 · Human ServicesThe Family Place: $2,000 · Human ServicesCITIZENS CLIMATE EDUCATION CORP: $3,000 · EnvironmentCLIMATE LEADERSHIP COUNCIL INC: $1,000 · Environment
International$132,000Other$132,510Education$20,450Philanthropy$20,200Arts & Culture$19,000Human Services$6,250Environment$4,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $120,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUCROSS FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetTHE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INC: $16,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetPRESTON HOLLOW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH FDN: $16,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOUR FRIENDS PLACE: $13,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GEANCO FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBEREA COLLEGE: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOLYTECHNIC SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAIR CHANCE: $4,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCITIZENS CLIMATE EDUCATION CORP: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGolden View Classical Academy: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWashington and Lee University: $3,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetALEXANDRIA SOCCER ASSOCIATION: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $2,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JAYSON TATUM FOUNDATION: $2,200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTELLURIDE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Family Place: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLIMATE LEADERSHIP COUNCIL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARBON TAX CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKIDSPACE A PARTICIPATORY MUSEUM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARFAN FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS HELPING KIDS INC: $500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKTC CONSERVANCY: $500 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $200 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 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds UCROSS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds PRESTON HOLLOW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH FDN ↗
  • Who funds OUR FRIENDS PLACE ↗
  • Who funds THE GEANCO FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BEREA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds FAIR CHANCE ↗
  • Who funds CITIZENS CLIMATE EDUCATION CORP ↗
  • Who funds Golden View Classical Academy ↗
  • Who funds Washington and Lee University ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
  • Who funds ALEXANDRIA SOCCER ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE JAYSON TATUM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TELLURIDE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum ↗
  • Who funds The Family Place ↗
  • Who funds CLIMATE LEADERSHIP COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds CARBON TAX CENTER ↗
  • Who funds KIDSPACE A PARTICIPATORY MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds THE MARFAN FOUNDATION 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.

Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY10.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Mr and Mrs Robert J Stetson Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mr and Mrs Robert J Stetson Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 47 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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