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The Stanley Foundation dba Stanley Center for Peace and Security

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.

$21k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of The Stanley Foundation dba Stanley Center for Peace and Security’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$910
Median grant
7
States reached
$135M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Nonviolent Peaceforce$3,000
Connections for the Homeless$3,000
Wyoming Community Foundation$2,000
Faith Chapel Church$2,000
Mercy Corps$1,800
It Takes a Village Animal Rescue & Resources$1,500
Community Foundation of Muscatine County$1,000
Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines$1,000
World Relief Quad Cities$1,000
Community Foundation of Muscatine County$910
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council$600
Bur Oak Land Trust$500
Seed Savers Exchange$500
Peace through Music International$500
River Action$400
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Border Angels: $220 → 11%Flickinger Learning Center: $10k → 12%Muscatine Community YMCA: $200 → 12%Flickinger Learning Center: $200 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

44%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$111k · 8 repeat orgs$140k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
35

Total granted

$111k
$129k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+12%

Still filing today

63%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHuman ServicesAnimalsFood & NutritionEducationPhilanthropyOther

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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF MUSCATINE IOWA
    2× · 2022–2023 · $2k · revenue +6%
  • DR
    DACHSHUND RESCUE SOUTH FLORIDA INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $811 · revenue +2%
  • RB
    RIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR
    2× · 2022–2024 · $400 · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • WO
    WOMEN OF COLOR ADVANCING PEACE AND SECURITY WCAPS
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -13%
  • MS
    Meskwaki Settlement School
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • MC
    MUSCATINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +78%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
International Rivers Network

International Rivers protects rivers and defends the rights of communities that depend on them.

Environment
2
International Development Enterprises

See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.

International
3
Iowa Citizen Action Network

To promote social, economic and environmental justice.

4
United Way of North Central Iowa

Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…

Philanthropy
5
Nuru International

Nuru is a global collective that enables inclusive and sustainable prosperity by identifying communities at the stability tipping point, strengthening rural livelihoods and market systems, and fostering stabilizing connections that repair…

International
6
United Way of East Central Iowa

Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.

Philanthropy
7
Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition
8
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
9
Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation

This member-supported organization protects and restores iowa's land, water and wildlife for future generations. priorities include permanent land protection, promotion of improved land management and bringing new conservation…

Environment
10
Common Good Iowa

Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.

11
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
12
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dachshund Rescue South Florida Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyWomen & Girls Leadership De…Community College Foundatio…Animal Rescue and ShelterCommunity FoundationsAffordable Housing Developm…United Way AffiliatesChristian Missionary Organi…Food Banks and PantriesDomestic Violence ServicesImmigrant Worker SupportSenior Support ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 38. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number13%5%<5yr9%11%5–10yr14%18%10–20yr12%23%20–35yr14%27%35–55yr39%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value13%1%<5yr9%38%5–10yr14%7%10–20yr12%29%20–35yr14%13%35–55yr39%12%55yr+

The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/45
the rest of the field
6%
1,704/29,160

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

41 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 57 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
25/41
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Community Foundation of Muscatine County — $83,785 · OtherCommunity Foundation of Muscatine CountyMeskwaki Settlement School — $10,000 · OtherMeskwaki Settlement SchoolNational Pearl Button Museum — $10,000 · OtherNational Pearl Button MuseumFAITH CHAPEL CHURCH — $6,000 · Other+31 more — $50,878 · Other+31 moreWOMEN OF COLOR ADVANCING PEACE AND SECURITY WCAPS — $50,000 · Public BenefitWOMEN OF COLOR ADVA…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JOHNSON COUNTY — $23,975 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOU…WYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $7,000 · PhilanthropyWYOMING COMMU…+3 more — $1,800 · Philanthropy+3 moreMUSCATINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationChance For Change Inc — $5,000 · Education+1 more — $200 · EducationFLICKINGER LEARNING CENTER — $10,200 · Human Services+3 more — $620 · Human ServicesNonviolent Peaceforce — $3,000 · InternationalMercy Corps — $1,800 · InternationalWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS — $1,000 · InternationalGLOBAL ZERO — $1,000 · InternationalIOWA CITY FOREIGN RELATIONS COUNCIL — $600 · InternationalWINGS OF HOPE INTERNATIONAL — $600 · International+1 more — $200 · InternationalLLOYD ECODISTRICT — $5,000 · Community ImprovementIOWA NONPROFIT ALLIANCE — $1,000 · Community Improvement
Other$160,663Public Benefit$50,000Philanthropy$32,775Education$15,200Human Services$10,820International$8,200Community Improvement$6,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWOMEN OF COLOR ADVANCING PEACE AND SECURITY WCAPS — $50,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JOHNSON COUNTY — $23,975 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFLICKINGER LEARNING CENTER — $10,200 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetMUSCATINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetWYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLLOYD ECODISTRICT — $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetChance For Change Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetIT TAKES A VILLAGE ANIMAL RESCUE & RESOURCES — $4,300 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNonviolent Peaceforce — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSupport Our Aging Religious Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MUSCATINE IOWA — $1,840 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Corps — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of The Music Hall — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeachers Unify to End Gun Violence — $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetIOWA NONPROFIT ALLIANCE — $1,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL ZERO — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL TTT SOCIETY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDACHSHUND RESCUE SOUTH FLORIDA INC — $811 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNICEF USA Impact Fund for Children Inc — $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIOWA CITY FOREIGN RELATIONS COUNCIL — $600 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWINGS OF HOPE INTERNATIONAL — $600 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSEED SAVERS EXCHANGE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUR OAK LAND TRUST — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC — $440 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIVER ACTION INC — $400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIOWA VALLEY RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT — $400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR — $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM — $227 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBORDER ANGELS — $220 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTAPESTRY FARMS — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSCATINE COMMUNITY Y — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY QUAD CITIES — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetECOPEACE MIDDLE EAST ENVIRONMENTAL NGO FORUM — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH — $102 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIsland Safe Harbor Animal Sanctuary Inc — $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

HNI Charitable FoundationIA19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: HNI Charitable Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Holthues Trust · KENT CORPORATION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION fka KENT-STEIN FOUNDATION · Jubitz Family Foundation · Midwestone Bank Foundation · Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation · Quad Cities Community Foundation · Vyuha Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · The Ayco Charitable 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 Stanley Foundation dba Stanley Center for Peace and Security 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 67%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals67% of income from government
  • Mercy Corps47% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 57 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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