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The Stillwagon Family Foundation

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.

$15k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$5k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$36kHuman Services$17kEducation$13kPhilanthropy$7kFood & Nutrition$3kHealth$200
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,864
Median grant
3
States reached
$331k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YORK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$4,582
MAHONING VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$3,000
LAKE ERIE COLLEGE$2,150
SALVATION ARMY MAHONING VALLEY$1,864
HENRY & WILLIAM EVANS HOME FOR CHILDREN$1,000
FREMONT STREET NURSERY$1,000
HIGHLAND FOOD PANTRY$546
KENT HISTORICAL SOCIETY$450
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%YORK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $5k → 9%LAKE ERIE COLLEGE: $3k → 9%KENT HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $500 → 12%MAHONING VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $4k → 19%FREMONT STREET NURSERY: $1k → 16%YORK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $5k → 9%LAKE ERIE COLLEGE: $3k → 9%KENT HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $500 → 12%MAHONING VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $3k → 19%FREMONT STREET NURSERY: $1k → 16%YORK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $5k → 9%LAKE ERIE COLLEGE: $3k → 9%KENT HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $450 → 12%MAHONING VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $3k → 19%HENRY & WILLIAM EVANS HOME FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 16%YORK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $4k → 9%LAKE ERIE COLLEGE: $2k → 9%SALVATION ARMY MAHONING VALLEY: $3k → 19%HENRY & WILLIAM EVANS HOME FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 16%YORK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $4k → 9%LAKE ERIE COLLEGE: $2k → 9%SALVATION ARMY MAHONING VALLEY: $2k → 19%HENRY & WILLIAM EVANS HOME FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 16%SALVATION ARMY YOUNGSTOWN OHIO: $2k → 19%FREMONT STREET NURSERY: $1k → 16%SALVATION ARMY MAHONING VALLEY: $2k → 19%HIGHLAND FOOD PANTRY: $956 → 16%YOUNGSTOWN FOUNDATION: $5k → 19%HIGHLAND FOOD PANTRY: $918 → 16%YOUNGSTOWN FOUNDATION: $2k → 19%MUSEUM OF THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY: $700 → 16%FREMONT STREET NURSERY: $700 → 16%HENRY & WILLIAM EVANS HOME FOR CHILDREN: $700 → 16%HENRY & WILLIAM EVANS HOME FOR CHILDREN: $700 → 16%FREMONT STREET NURSERY: $700 → 16%MUSEUM OF THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY: $579 → 16%HIGHLAND FOOD PANTRY: $546 → 16%HIGHLAND FOOD PANTRY: $510 → 16%WINCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER: $200 → 16%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$66k · 9 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
2

Total granted

$66k
$2k

Still filing today

78%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationPublic BenefitOther
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

  • LE
    LAKE ERIE COLLEGE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +18%
  • MV
    MAHONING VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $10k · revenue +83%
  • FS
    FREMONT STREET NURSERY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +282%

Funded once

  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY YOUNGSTOWN OHIO
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • WM
    WINCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $200
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
Fenton Historical Society of Jamestown New York

The purpose and mission of the fenton history center is to provide education and cultural opportunities for the residents of chautauqua county and its visitors through the collection, preservation and exhibition of artifacts and archival…

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2
Franklin County Historical Society- Kittochtinny

The objective of the franklin county historical society - kittochtinny shall be to foster increased knowledge of the history of franklin county and the cumberland valley through a museum and library, to publish papers of the corporation at…

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3
Historical Society of Kent Co Md

County historical society providing for preservation and collection of materials relating to local county history. maintain and operate historic house museum.

Arts & Culture
4
Johnstown Historical Society
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5
Wayne County Historical Society of Ohio

The wayne county historical society is dedicated to collecting, preserving, and interpreting the history of wayne county.

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6
Fulton County Historical Society

Museum provides general public with displays and information about the history of Fulton County New York.

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7
Wilmington Historical Society

To preserve all documents to educate, engage and inform the residents and visitors concerning Wilmington, the Whiteface Mountain Region and the Adirondack community.

Arts & Culture
8
Lynn Museum and Historical Society Inc
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9
Newcomb Historical Museum

The organization was formed to safeguard and share existing and future collections related to the social, cultural, and economic history of the high peaks adirondack region in and around the township of newcomb in essex county, new york.

Arts & Culture
10
Historical Society of Mount Lebanon

The historical society of mount lebanon serves and promotes the community by collecting, preserving, interpreting, and sharing its history in ways designed to inspire our present and guide our future.

Arts & Culture
11
Lehigh County Historical Society

To collect, preserve & publish the history & historical data relative to lehigh county for the education of the general public

Arts & Culture
12
Wayne County Historical Society

Preserve historical artifacts and provide education of wayne county pennsylvania

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youngstown Fdn General; the most unlike its peers is Kent Historical Society. 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 12 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YORK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $23,300 · Arts & CultureYORK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAMAHONING VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $9,500 · Arts & CultureMAHONING VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETYTHE GLASS-GLEN BURNIE MUSEUM INC: $1,279 · Arts & CultureLAKE ERIE COLLEGE: $12,513 · EducationLAKE ERIE COLLEGEFREMONT STREET NURSERY: $4,400 · EducationFREMONT STREET NURSERYSALVATION ARMY MAHONING VALLEY: $6,586 · OtherSALVATION ARMY MAHONI…HENRY & WILLIAM EVANS HOME FOR CHILDREN: $4,400 · OtherHENRY & WILLIAM EVANS…SALVATION ARMY YOUNGSTOWN OHIO: $2,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY YOUNGS…KENT HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,450 · OtherKENT HISTORICAL SOCIE…+1 more: $200 · OtherYOUNGSTOWN FDN GENERAL: $7,150 · PhilanthropyYOUNGSTOWN…HIGHLAND FOOD PANTRY: $2,930 · Public Benefit
Arts & Culture$34,079Education$16,913Other$14,636Philanthropy$7,150Public Benefit$2,930

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYORK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $23,300 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetLAKE ERIE COLLEGE: $12,513 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMAHONING VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $9,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNGSTOWN FDN GENERAL: $7,150 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFREMONT STREET NURSERY: $4,400 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHIGHLAND FOOD PANTRY: $2,930 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKENT HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,450 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GLASS-GLEN BURNIE MUSEUM INC: $1,279 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds YORK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds LAKE ERIE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MAHONING VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds YOUNGSTOWN FDN GENERAL ↗
  • Who funds FREMONT STREET NURSERY ↗
  • Who funds HIGHLAND FOOD PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds KENT HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE GLASS-GLEN BURNIE MUSEUM INC ↗

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.

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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 Stillwagon Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Stillwagon Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 12 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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