· Private foundation
The Stagen Family Charitable Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FEAST INC | $30,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR CULTURAL EVOLUTION | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- FIFEAST Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $60k · revenue +25%
- ASALL STARS PROJECT INC2× · 2022–2023 · $14k · revenue +44%
- CCCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago2× · 2018–2019 · $14k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- DCDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +24%
- TFTHE FOOD FOUNDATION DBA HUNGER BUSTERSone grant, 2017 · $4k
- HAHEROES AND HORSES INCone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +20%
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.
We empower food service programs and school districts to make food delicious, nourishing, and responsible through our evidence-based certification program. We provide education and support that inspires students, schools, and communities…
End hunger together.
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Food alliance works at the juncture of science, business and values to define and promote sustainability in agriculture and the food industry, and to ensure safe and fair working conditions, humane treatment of animals, and careful…
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
To cultivate healthy farm and food connections in classrooms, cafeterias, and communities.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
Together with communities, foodcorps serves to connect kids to healthy food in schools.
The animal agriculture alliance is a nonprofit organization that helps bridge the communication gap between farm and fork. we connect food industry stakeholders, engage food chain influencers and promote consumer choice by helping key…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lake Forest Open Lands Association and the most unlike its peers is The Roberti Community House. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 22 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 THE INSTITUTE FOR CULTURAL EVOLUTION ↗
- Who funds FEAST Inc ↗
- Who funds The Roberti Community House ↗
- Who funds ALL STARS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds GREENHILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HEROES AND HORSES INC ↗
- Who funds ELAWA FARM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAKE BLUFF OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDCAREGROUP ↗
- Who funds Adaptive Adventures ↗
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 Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Stagen Family Charitable Trust 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.