· Private foundation
The Stemler Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
99% of The Stemler Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Long Beach Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $492k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LONG BEACH COMMUNTIY FOUNDATION | $163,996 |
| LONG BEACH COMMUNTIY FOUNDATION | $163,995 |
| LONG BEACH COMMUNTIY FOUNDATION | $163,995 |
| USA WATER POLO | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UWUSA WATER POLO INC5× · 2017–2024 · $12k · revenue +71%
- IGIndividual grant recipient3× · 2019–2023 · $11k
- SFSTEMLER FAMILY ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP2× · 2022–2023 · $11k
Funded once
- NSNEVADA STATE PRISON PRESERVATION SOone grant, 2021 · $20k
- CTCARSON TAHOE SPCAone grant, 2020 · $15k
- HHHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +300%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
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 21 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 LONG BEACH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds USA WATER POLO INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE MOLINA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT HARBOR EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION C/O EMILY EVANS ↗
- Who funds HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Harbor Day Endowment Corporation ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Stemler Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Stemler Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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