· Private foundation
The Steven & Valerie Stafstrom 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $2,500 |
| MANN FOOD BANK | $2,031 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| JH GREENBERGER CANCER CNTRE | $1,000 |
| BCAN | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| REPSRYAN | $500 |
| SOUTH MOUNTAIN CHILDRENS HOME | $500 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $500 |
| BURKE CTY 4H | $500 |
| NOURISH BRIDGEPORT INC | $500 |
| MCDOWELL CTY 4H | $500 |
| UND RUGBY CLUB | $250 |
| NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
MANNA FOOD BANK INC4× · 2022–2025 · $8k · revenue +169%- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE4× · 2022–2025 · $5k · revenue +40%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches2× · 2022–2023 · $3k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- JGJH GREENBERG CANCER CTRone grant, 2022 · $1k
- NBNOURISH BRIDGEPORTone grant, 2024 · $1k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $1k
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.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
The international committee of the red cross (switzerland)(icrc) is an impartial, neutral, and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of armed conflict and of violence…
To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
Our mission is to advance the status of women,youth,children and families experiencing homelessness in our country, and the womens, youth and family shelters and safe havens that serve them, and end and prevent homelessness. we do so by:…
The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…
Chemists without borders is a global humanitarian organization committed to sustainable and equitable solutions that empower communities and improve overall well-being. our strategic framework is: service - developing, facilitating, and…
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 44 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 MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHMOUNTAIN CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds NOURISH BRIDGEPORT INC ↗
- Who funds BEADS OF COURAGE INC DBA CENTER FOR ARTS IN NURSING ↗
- Who funds MERCYFUND ↗
- Who funds HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF CHARLOTTE ↗
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: Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Steven & Valerie Stafstrom Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Steven & Valerie Stafstrom Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Nourish Bridgeport Inc: 19% of income from government
How this is measured
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