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The Robert and Judith Sturgis Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$393k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
68
Grants FY2025
49
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$75,000
Organizations funded a year
28 to 49
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
15
Total assets, FY2025
$8.3M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations The Robert and Judith Sturgis Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEnvironmentArts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationRecreation & 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving62$363k27%
FY202449$388k33%
FY202347$292k49%
FY202237$236k24%
FY202133$152k58%
FY202028$22kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$659kHealth$311kEducation$104kYouth Development$93kFood & Nutrition$74kRecreation & Sports$68kEnvironment$64kArts & Culture$56kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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ID
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
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PA
NJ
CT
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MO
VA
MD
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of The Robert and Judith Sturgis Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Village for Families and Children$376,54060%
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation$201,50050%
Eversight$101,30050%
The Young Mens Christian Association of Boise City Idaho$83,75030%
Underground Ne$75,000311%
Women's and Children's Alliance$67,48031%
Gifts of Love Inc$50,99361%
Upper Valley Snow Sports Foundation$49,00032%
Simsbury Performing Arts Center Inc$40,00023%
South Park Inn Inc$39,40060%
Jannus Inc$25,00020%
Hartford Interval House Inc$16,77060%
Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation Inc$16,00040%
Chestnut Hill Community Association (Pa) Inc$15,00014%
Idaho Foodbank Warehouse$12,00060%
Friends of Simsbury Crew Inc$10,000112%
Friends of the Childrens Park in Chestnut Hill$10,0001n/a
Connecticut Foodshare Inc$9,00030%
Philabundance$8,50050%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$8,00050%
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc$7,00040%
Trees for the Future Inc$6,70060%
K9s for Warriors Inc$6,20030%
Global Giving Foundation$6,0002n/a
Simsbury Land Trust Inc$5,34061%
The Actuarial Foundation$5,30060%
Lake Sunapee Protective Association$5,20050%
Visions for Creative Housing Solutions$5,00020%
California Fire Foundation$5,0001n/a
South Royalton Senior Center$5,00013%
Foodshare Inc$4,50030%
Friends of Pastorius Park In$4,50012%
The Friends of the Wissahickon Inc$4,10030%
Follow Your Art Community Studios Inc$4,00020%
Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption$3,60050%
Ausbon Sargent Land Preservation Trust$3,50050%
Southwest Indian Foundation$3,4831n/a
The Salvation Army$3,0001n/a
Idaho Youth Ranch Inc$3,00020%
Idaho Suicide Prevention Coalition$3,0002n/a
Travis Mills Foundation$3,00020%
Interfaith Sanctuary Housing Services Inc$3,00020%
Farmington River Watershed Association Inc$2,80050%
American Diabetes Association$2,80050%
Idaho Head Start Association Inc Woller$2,75020%
Winter Wildlands Alliance Inc$2,75030%
New London Barn Playhouse Inc$2,70050%
Salvation Army National Corp$2,7002n/a
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$2,50010%
Silver Fox Senior Social Club Inc$2,50010%
Project Sage Inc$2,50010%
Boise Rescue Mission$2,5002n/a
Charity Navigator$2,40060%
John Hay Estate at the Fells$2,10040%
Salvation Army & Its Components$2,0001n/a
McLean Game Refuge Inc$2,00010%
Shepherds Home Foundation Inc$2,00020%
The Horace Bushnell Memorial Hall$1,80040%
Project Home$1,75020%
Bethesda Project$1,75020%
The Trust for Public Land$1,75020%
Winter Center for Indigenous Traditions$1,60031%
Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc$1,60030%
New England Handicapped Sports Association$1,30020%
Quest Scholars Program Inc$1,25020%
Cradles to Crayons Inc$1,25020%
Together Women Rise$1,00010%
Idaho Conservation League Inc$1,00010%
KidsPlay Childrens Museum Inc$1,00010%
Boise State University Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Corpus Christi House Inc$1,0001n/a
Payette Lakes Ski Club Inc$1,00010%
Friends of Cresheim Trail$5001n/a
Step by Step Foundation Inc$50011%
Wissahickon Valley Watershed Association Inc$5001n/a
McCall Winter Sports Club Inc$50010%
Simsbury Historical Society Inc$50010%
Abc House Inc$50010%
Partners for Andean Community Health Inc$50010%
Simsbury Abc Program Inc$50010%
Heifer Project International$50010%
Bustin Out of Boise Inc$50010%
The Center for Safer Communities$50010%
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund Inc$50010%
Marine Toys for Tots Foundation$30010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($76k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Robert and Judith Sturgis Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Village for Families and Children: $376,540 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMarc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation: $201,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetEversight: $101,300 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Young Mens Christian Association of Boise City Idaho: $83,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUnderground Ne: $75,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetWomen's and Children's Alliance: $67,480 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetGifts of Love Inc: $50,993 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetUpper Valley Snow Sports Foundation: $49,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetSimsbury Performing Arts Center Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetSouth Park Inn Inc: $39,400 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetJannus Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHartford Interval House Inc: $16,770 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFidelco Guide Dog Foundation Inc: $16,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetChestnut Hill Community Association (Pa) Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetIdaho Foodbank Warehouse: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Simsbury Crew Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetConnecticut Foodshare Inc: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance: $8,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Boston Food Bank Inc: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTrees for the Future Inc: $6,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetK9s for Warriors Inc: $6,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSimsbury Land Trust Inc: $5,340 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetThe Actuarial Foundation: $5,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLake Sunapee Protective Association: $5,200 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVisions for Creative Housing Solutions: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSouth Royalton Senior Center: $5,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetFoodshare Inc: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Pastorius Park In: $4,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetThe Friends of the Wissahickon Inc: $4,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFollow Your Art Community Studios Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDave Thomas Foundation for Adoption: $3,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAusbon Sargent Land Preservation Trust: $3,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetIdaho Youth Ranch Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTravis Mills Foundation: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInterfaith Sanctuary Housing Services Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFarmington River Watershed Association Inc: $2,800 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $2,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIdaho Head Start Association Inc Woller: $2,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWinter Wildlands Alliance Inc: $2,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNew London Barn Playhouse Inc: $2,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSilver Fox Senior Social Club Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetProject Sage Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCharity Navigator: $2,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJohn Hay Estate at the Fells: $2,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMcLean Game Refuge Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetShepherds Home Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% 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 73.

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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.

Hartford Foundation for Public GivingCT27.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Robert & Margaret Patricelli Family Foundation · Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Ensign-Bickford Foundation Inc · Northwest Community Bank Foundation Inc · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace 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.

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About The Robert and Judith Sturgis Family Foundation

How much does The Robert and Judith Sturgis Family Foundation give?
The Robert and Judith Sturgis Family Foundation reported 68 grants totaling $392,930 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 49 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does The Robert and Judith Sturgis Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (43%), Health (20%), Education (7%).
Who are The Robert and Judith Sturgis Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Village for Families and Children ($377k), Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation ($202k), Eversight ($101k).
Does The Robert and Judith Sturgis Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Robert and Judith Sturgis Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Robert and Judith Sturgis Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, Aetna Foundation Inc, The Robert & Margaret Patricelli Family Foundation.
Where is The Robert and Judith Sturgis Family Foundation based?
The Robert and Judith Sturgis Family Foundation is based in CT.

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 115 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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