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The Stagman Foundation at a glance

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The Stagman Foundation

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$33k
Granted FY2018
19
Grants FY2018
5
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Recreation & Sports$534kEducation$40kHuman Services$28kCrime & Legal$20kHealth$15kPhilanthropy$8kReligion$3kYouth Development$1kOther$0
02FY2018 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WIDENER UNIVERSITY$5,000
ROSE BOWL LEGACY FOUNDATION$5,000
ARCHBISHOP WOOD HIGH SCHOOL$5,000
AMERICAN MARTYRS SCHOOL$5,000
MUHLENBERG COLLEGE$5,000
NETWORK FOR GOOD$1,030
MARYCREST MANOR$1,000
MARYMOUNT HIGH SCHOOL$1,000
COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA - LOS ANGELES$523
LOS CATOS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION$500
ARCHDIOCESE OF LOS ANGELES$500
MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$500
MATER DOLOROSA RETREAT CENTER$500
DOYLESTOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION$500
FRIENDS OF ST LAWRENCE - WATTS YOUTH CENTER$500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LOS CATOS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $500 → 6%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $250 → 14%IRAQ & AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA: $16k → 17%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

MN
NY
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
SC
DC
GA
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.

22%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$142k · 7 repeat orgs$505k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
24

Total granted

$142k
$495k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+40%

Still filing today

71%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
HealthHuman ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • MC
    MUHLENBERG COLLEGE
    2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +5%
  • WU
    WIDENER UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +34%
  • MM
    MARYCREST MANOR
    2× · 2017–2018 · $3k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • US
    UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC COMMITTEEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $428k · revenue +170%
  • LA
    LEGAL AID FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • IA
    IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2017 · $16k · revenue -47%
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
Usc Care Medical Group Inc

To promote health by engaging in the practice of medicine for patients of hospitals affiliated with the university of southern california keck school of medicine and elsewhere. to provide medical care to the sick and injured who may come…

Health
2
American Society of Clinical Oncology Inc

See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.

Health
3
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Asco Association

Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…

Community Improvement
6
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
7
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
9
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
10
Musc Strategic Ventures

To promote and support the educational, medical, scientific, and research purposes of the medical university of south carolina "musc", and university medical associates of the medical university of south carolina "uma", including their…

Health
11
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memorial Medical Center Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 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 44 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
18/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC COMMITTEE: $428,062 · Recreation & SportsUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC COMMITTEELegacy Connections: $105,000 · Recreation & SportsLegacy ConnectionsLEGAL AID FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherAMERICAN MARTYRS SCHOOL: $11,500 · OtherOFFICE OF CATHOLIC EDUCATION: $5,000 · Other+20 more: $9,973 · OtherIRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC: $16,000 · Human ServicesSTARS AND STRIPES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human Services+3 more: $1,250 · Human ServicesMUHLENBERG COLLEGE: $10,000 · EducationWIDENER UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1,500 · Education+2 more: $1,000 · EducationBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $6,000 · HealthMARYCREST MANOR: $3,000 · HealthMOVEMBER FOUNDATION: $2,000 · HealthDOYLESTOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,500 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000 · HealthMEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $500 · Health+1 more: $250 · HealthPROVIDENCE LITTLE COMPANY OF MARY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyNETWORK FOR GOOD: $1,030 · Public Safety & Disaster
Recreation & Sports$533,062Other$46,473Human Services$27,250Education$22,500Health$14,250Philanthropy$5,000Public Safety & Disaster$1,030

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC COMMITTEE: $428,062 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLegacy Connections: $105,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetIRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC: $16,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMUHLENBERG COLLEGE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWIDENER UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTARS AND STRIPES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE LITTLE COMPANY OF MARY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARYCREST MANOR: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOVEMBER FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOYLESTOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $1,030 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMBX FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOMES OF HOPE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANCHOR HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLos Cabos Children's Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTOKED MENTORING INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF ST LAWRENCE-WATTS YOUTH CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNION RESCUE MISSION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $100 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.

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.

The Stagman FoundationCalifornia Community …The US Charitable Gif…Wm Keck FoundationWestern Asset Managem…The Ralph M Parsons F…Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…Renaissance Charitabl…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Charities Aid Foundat…
The Stagman FoundationCO26.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Stagman Foundation · California Community Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Wm Keck Foundation · Western Asset Management Company Charitable Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America

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 Stagman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Stagman Foundation. 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%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Stagman Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Stagman Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 44 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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