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The Stanny Foundation at a glance

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The Stanny Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$24k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$19k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$81kEducation$45kEnvironment$43kFood & Nutrition$35kScience & Tech$15kRecreation & Sports$2kPublic Benefit$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $19k
$18,680
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Zonta Club of Hanalei Foundation$18,680
Center for Spiritual Living Kauai$5,000
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 (FY20–23, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Kauai North Shore Pantry: $10k → 9%Kauai North Shore Pantry: $5k → 9%Pittsburgh Conservation Corps: $2k → 11%Pittsburgh Conservation Corps: $1k → 11%Pittsburgh Conservation Corps: $1k → 11%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.
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$182k · 10 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
6

Total granted

$182k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+3%

Still filing today

70%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentHuman ServicesFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsEducationScience & TechOther
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

  • ZC
    ZONTA CLUB OF HANALEI FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $44k · revenue +65%
  • AL
    ALLEGHENY LAND TRUST
    2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +66%
  • CENTER FOR COALFIELD JUSTICE
    2× · 2020–2021 · $5k · revenue +367%

Funded once

  • GP
    GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANKgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +28%
  • IO
    INSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -54%
  • AM
    ALOHA MOVEMENT KAUAI
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
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
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
2
Pennsylvania Solar Center

We provide trusted guidance to usher all pennsylvanians into the clean energy economy to reach a sustainable and resilient tomorrow.

Environment
3
Conservation Law Foundation Inc

Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…

Environment
4
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
5
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
6
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
7
Conservation Pennsylvania

The organization is a non-partisan, non-profit environmental organization dedicated to improving the health and safety of pennsylvania's citizens, land, air, and water. working to educate the public about the challenges facing the…

Environment
8
The Ohio Environmental Council

To protect the environment and health of all ohio communities through legal and policy advocacy, decision-maker accountability, and civic engagement.

Environment
9
Clean Air Council

Clean Air Council is a member-supported environmental organization serving the Mid-Atlantic Region. The Council is dedicated to protecting and defending everyones right to a healthy environment.

Environment
10
Friends of Lackawanna

Friends of lackawanna is a pennsylvania non-profit corporation dedicated to supporting the health and welfare of the residents of northeastern pennsylvania and educating individuals regarding the health and safety of the enviroment.

Environment
11
Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy

We improve quality of life by enhancing and stewarding pittsburgh's parks in partnership with the community.

Recreation & Sports
12
American Farmland Trust

Saves the land that sustains us by protecting farmland, promoting sound farming practices, and keeping farmers on the land.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future; the most unlike its peers is The Rescue Tube Foundation. 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

10 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. 10 of the 16 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Center for Spiritual Living Kauai: $57,000 · OtherCenter for Spiritual Living KauaiCENTERS FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING: $12,000 · OtherCENTERS FOR SPIRITUAL LIVINGHawaii Substainability Foundation: $11,500 · OtherHawaii Substainability Foundation+3 more: $3,500 · OtherZONTA CLUB OF HANALEI FOUNDATION: $43,680 · EducationZONTA CLUB OF HANALEI …ALLEGHENY LAND TRUST: $20,000 · EnvironmentALLEGHENY LAND TRUS…GROUP AGAINST SMOG AND POLLUTION INC: $8,500 · EnvironmentGROUP AGAINST SMOG …CITIZENS FOR PENNSYLVANIA'S FUTURE: $6,000 · EnvironmentCITIZENS FOR PENNSY…CENTER FOR COALFIELD JUSTICE: $4,500 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR COALFIEL…GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $20,000 · Food & NutritionGREATER PI…KAUAI NORTH SHORE FOOD PANTRY: $15,000 · Human ServicesKAUAI NOR…PITTSBURGH CONSERVATION CORPS: $3,500 · Human ServicesPITTSBURG…INSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES: $15,000 · Science & TechThe Rescue Tube Foundation: $1,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$84,000Education$43,680Environment$39,000Food & Nutrition$20,000Human Services$18,500Science & Tech$15,000Recreation & Sports$1,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetZONTA CLUB OF HANALEI FOUNDATION: $43,680 over 6y, 15% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLEGHENY LAND TRUST: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKAUAI NORTH SHORE FOOD PANTRY: $15,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetINSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGROUP AGAINST SMOG AND POLLUTION INC: $8,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCITIZENS FOR PENNSYLVANIA'S FUTURE: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR COALFIELD JUSTICE: $4,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPITTSBURGH CONSERVATION CORPS: $3,500 over 3y, 0.2% 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 Heinz EndowmentsThe Pittsburgh Founda…Community Foundation …Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Heinz EndowmentsPA15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Heinz Endowments · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Johnstown · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Stanny Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Stanny Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 16 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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