· Private foundation
The Stebbins Fund Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k81 grants · $128k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| PLANTING FIELDS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE COLUMBIA GORGE | $10,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER | $10,000 |
| WILD EARTH ALLIES | $10,000 |
| HARVARD ART MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| PRESERVATION LONG ISLAND | $7,500 |
| REINING HORSE FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| TRINITY PAWLING SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| RAINBOW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER | $5,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY | $4,000 |
| WORLD MONUMENTS FUND | $3,500 |
| METHOW VALLEY RIDING UNLIMITED | $3,000 |
| NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
131 repeat relationships — 73 still active in FY2024, 58 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $35k · revenue +157%- AFAVENUES FOR JUSTICE INC7× · 2017–2023 · $34k · revenue +158%
- RHREINING HORSE FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $31k · revenue +265%
Funded once
- LALAB ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2021 · $25k
FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITYone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +20%- CFCAUMSETT FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +82%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of the hudson river foundation is to inspire and inform action through science and engaging people to enhance the hudson river, estuary, and watershed (see schedule o).
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
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…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
See schedule onylcv is a non-partisan policy making and political action organization that works to make environmental protection a top priority with elected officials, decision-makers and the voters by evaluating incumbent performance and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Field Museum of Natural History and the most unlike its peers is Hood River Area Trail Stewards. 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.
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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
111 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 111 of the 181 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds EcoHealth Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AVENUES FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds REINING HORSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTRY GARDEN CLUB OF LONG ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Wild Earth Allies Inc ↗
- Who funds PAWS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ART RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN VALE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LONG ISLAND ANTIQUITIES ↗
- Who funds EUPHEMIA L HAYNES PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SITAR ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds Old Westbury Gardens Inc ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC DEERFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE COLUMBIA GORGE ↗
- Who funds METHOW VALLEY RIDING UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds REED INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FISH Food Bank ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC ↗
- Who funds CAUMSETT FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Greenfish Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Bahnik Foundation Inc · Ainslie Foundation · Russell Colgate Fund Inc · The Ford Family Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Wy'East Foundation · Herbert L Smith III Family Fund · The Corita Charitable Trust McGrath & Company LLP
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 Stebbins Fund Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Helping Hands Against Violence Inc — 48% of income from government
- Crag Rats — 41% of income from government
- The Next Door Inc — 39% of income from government
- Native Fish Society Inc — 27% of income from government
- EcoHealth Alliance Inc — 24% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Columbia Arts — 8% of income from government
- Boston Lyric Opera Company — 3% of income from government
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences — 3% of income from government
- Society for the Preservation of New Engl — 2% of income from government
- The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc — 1% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- Reed Institute — 1% of income from government
- Columbia Riverkeeper — 1% of income from government
- Boston Ballet Inc — 0% of income from government
- Historic Deerfield Inc — 0% of income from government
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
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.
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