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The Stanzel Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$449k
Granted FY2024still arriving
79
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$60k
Largest
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 2024.

Education$1.8MYouth Development$623kCommunity Improvement$196kArts & Culture$148kHuman Services$129kPhilanthropy$55kHousing & Shelter$36kAnimals$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 79 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k72 grants · $210k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $124k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
$3,275
Median grant
2
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHAMPION VALLEY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$60,000
BLINN COLLEGE FOUNDATION$55,000
AND THEN A NEW DAY$31,000
SENIOR CONNECTIONS$31,000
COLORADO COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$28,000
TURTLE WING FOUNDATION$18,500
FAYETTE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$15,000
FAYETTE COUNTY COMMUNITY THEATRE$5,500
ARTS FOR RURAL TEXAS - FINE ARTS$5,000
VICTORIA COLLEGE - ZELDA ALLEN SCHOOL OF NURSING$5,000
Individual grant recipient$4,775
Individual grant recipient$3,275
Individual grant recipient$3,275
Individual grant recipient$3,275
Individual grant recipient$3,275
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 (FY22–24, $98k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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%NAVIDAD VALLEY COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS: $40k → 11%AND THEN A NEW DAY: $31k → 11%NAVIDAD VALLEY COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS: $27k → 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 175 repeat orgs$231k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +235% since the first grant, against +52% for those funded once.

175 repeat relationships: 60 still active in FY2024, 115 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

175
45

Total granted

$2.7M
$99k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+235%
+52%

Still filing today

3%
2%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $132k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureOther
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

  • TW
    Turtle Wing Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $162k · revenue +235%
  • NV
    NAVIDAD VALLEY COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
    2× · 2022–2023 · $67k · revenue +414% · 60% of their budget
  • FC
    FAYETTE COUNTY COMMUNITY THEATRE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $36k · revenue +339%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • BC
    BLINN COLLEGE - SCHULENBURG CAMPUS
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • FC
    FAYETTE COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +52%
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
Fayette County Commission On Aging Incorporated

The fayette county commission on aging serves and represents those adults 60 years of age and older in fayette county. the emphasis is on improving the quality of life of those fayette county citizens, 60 and above, and providing the…

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2
Fayette Area Historical Initiative

Historical and African American Acheivem

Arts & Culture
3
Fayette Alliance Connecting Together Resources

To coordinate resources with other like minded groups in the community to promote safe and healthy fayette county.

Health
4
FwC Community Services
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5
Fayette County Charitable Foundation

The organization uses their funds to give grants to area not-for-profit organizations.

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6
Fayette County Commission On Aging

Activities for the elderly

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7
Fayetteville Elementary Home and School Association

We are an organization to help support and enrich our school aged children at the Elementary school and in the community. We provide activities and events for the students, as well as support for the teachers and staff to provide items…

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8
Fayette County Cultural Trust

The mission of the fayette county cultural trust is to enrich the area's quality of life by promoting our cultural, artistic, historic, and natural assets and by creating partnerships to revitalize communities and further economic…

Arts & Culture
9
Fayette County Fiber Festival

To create appreciation and support for fiber and the associated arts through exposure, education and economic opportunity.

Recreation & Sports
10
Fayette County Economic Development

The fayette county economic development commission (fcedc) is a nonprofit (28e) countywide economic development corporation. the primary purpose of fcedc is to enhance job opportunities for the citizens of the fayette county area. fcedc…

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11
Fayette Chamber of Commerce

Partnering with local businesses and organizations to promote the community and strengthen the local economy.

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12
Wyoming County Special Needs Association
Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is And Then a New Day; the most unlike its peers is Mini Horse Helpers. 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

8 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. 8 of the 239 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHAMPION VALLEY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $616,000 · OtherCHAMPION VALLEY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBNAVIDAD VALLEY COMMUNITY CONNECTOR: $196,000 · OtherNAVIDAD VALLEY COMMUNITY CONNECTORBLINN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $109,000 · OtherARTS FOR RURAL TEXAS - FINE ARTS: $109,000 · Other+191 more: $1,566,006 · Other+191 moreTurtle Wing Foundation: $161,500 · EducationNAVIDAD VALLEY COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS: $67,000 · Human ServicesAND THEN A NEW DAY: $31,000 · Human ServicesGREATER FAYETTE COMMUNITY FOUNDATIO: $55,000 · PhilanthropyFAYETTE COUNTY COMMUNITY THEATRE: $35,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$2,596,006Education$161,500Human Services$98,000Philanthropy$55,000Arts & Culture$35,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTurtle Wing Foundation: $161,500 over 8y, 15% of budgetBLINN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $109,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetNAVIDAD VALLEY COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS: $67,000 over 2y, 60% of budgetGREATER FAYETTE COMMUNITY FOUNDATIO: $55,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetFAYETTE COUNTY COMMUNITY THEATRE: $35,500 over 5y, 25% of budgetAND THEN A NEW DAY: $31,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetMINI HORSE HELPERS: $20,000 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetFAYETTE COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $8,000 over 1y, 7.1% 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.

  • Who funds Turtle Wing Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BLINN COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NAVIDAD VALLEY COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS ↗
  • Who funds GREATER FAYETTE COMMUNITY FOUNDATIO ↗
  • Who funds FAYETTE COUNTY COMMUNITY THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds AND THEN A NEW DAY ↗
  • Who funds MINI HORSE HELPERS ↗

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.

Fayette Resale IncorporatedTX20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fayette Resale Incorporated · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Greater Fayette Community Foundatio · 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 Stanzel Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Stanzel Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 Stanzel Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Stanzel Family Foundation Inc 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 239 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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