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The Stanton and Colombo Family Foundation at a glance

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The Stanton and Colombo Family 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.

$95k
Granted FY2023
10
Grants FY2023
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

79% of The Stanton and Colombo Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Stanton and Colombo Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $95k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

5
’17
5
’18
5
’19
9
’20
6
’21
4
’22
6
’23
3
’24
3
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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 2025.

Education$505kHealth$356kArts & Culture$12kYouth Development$5kHuman Services$5kReligion$3kCrime & Legal$1kCivil Rights$1kOther$0
02FY2023 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k7 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOLVE MECFS INITIATIVE INC$50,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY - GSB$10,000
DAVIDSON COLLEGE$10,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$7,500
OPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION INC$5,000
TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$5,000
NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY INC$2,500
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK$2,500
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$1,000
FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES$1,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HEARTSONG INC: $500 → 9%GIRLS WHO CODE INC: $1k → 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
NV
PA
CT
CA
UT
MD
NC
FL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$703k · 11 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against -42% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
9

Total granted

$703k
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
-42%

Still filing today

73%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsOther
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

  • SM
    SOLVE ME CFS INITIATIVE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $340k · revenue +16%
  • Davidson College
    7× · 2017–2023 · $150k · revenue +42%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2019–2024 · $50k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Nevada Reno Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +35%
  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Department of Ped
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • BH
    BATEMAN HORNE CENTER OF EXCELLENCEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +105%
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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
4
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
5
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
6
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
7
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
8
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

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

Health
9
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
10
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
11
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
12
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Who Code Inc; the most unlike its peers is Unicorn Riot. 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

19 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. 19 of the 24 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
13/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOLVE ME CFS INITIATIVE INC: $340,000 · OtherSOLVE ME CFS INITIATIVE INCSTANFORD UNIVERSITY - FINANCIAL AID OFFICE: $100,000 · OtherSTANFORD UNIVERSITY - FINANCIAL AID OFFICESTANFORD UNIVERSITY - GSB: $20,000 · Other+5 more: $12,500 · OtherDavidson College: $150,000 · EducationDavidson CollegeTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $140,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNI…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY+5 more: $45,000 · Education+5 moreFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $11,000 · Arts & CultureUnicorn Riot: $1,000 · Arts & CultureOPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION: $7,500 · HealthBATEMAN HORNE CENTER OF EXCELLENCE: $2,500 · HealthGen-One Inc: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS WHO CODE INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesHEARTSONG INC: $500 · Human ServicesNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $1,000 · Civil Rights
Other$472,500Education$385,000Arts & Culture$12,000Health$10,000Youth Development$5,000Human Services$1,500Civil Rights$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOLVE ME CFS INITIATIVE INC: $340,000 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetDavidson College: $150,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $140,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNova Southeastern University Inc: $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $11,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGen-One Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetALL OUR KIN INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBATEMAN HORNE CENTER OF EXCELLENCE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnicorn Riot: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS WHO CODE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BAIL PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLake Street Council: $1,000 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.

National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA10.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · 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 Stanton and Colombo Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Stanton and Colombo Family 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%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Nova Southeastern University Inc: 2% of income from government
  • All Our Kin Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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

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How do I get to The Stanton and Colombo Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Stanton and Colombo Family 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 24 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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