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The Stillwater Foundation 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 $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $200k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE ADVOCATES | $50,000 |
| NOTE-ABLE MUSIC THERAPY SERVICES - MCKINLEY ARTS & CULTURE CENTER | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN NEVADA | $40,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION STOCKMAN FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $30,000 |
| MEDSHARE | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $20,100 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER CU PIIE PROGRAM | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION CU LEEDS EXCEL PROGRAM | $15,000 |
| FAR WISE | $10,000 |
| CHEF ANN FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SKYTAVERN | $5,000 |
| HIATUS RANCH | $5,000 |
| RENO PHILHARMONIC | $5,000 |
| HIGHER GROUND | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 94% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +115% since the first grant, against +47% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- FIFARWISE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $55k · revenue +662%
- CACHEF ANN FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $55k · revenue ×12
- RPRENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +86%
Funded once
- CTCARSON TAHOE REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $20k
- URURBAN ROOTS GARDEN CLASSROOMSgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +27%
- EHEDDY HOUSEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue ×38
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.
Founded in 2007, sierra harvest is building a community that values and eats an abundance of fresh, local, seasonal food; training successful local farmers that are increasing sustainable food production; and creating equitable access to…
To educate and support underserved and economically distressed entrepreneurs through new entrepreneur training, incubation, and technical assistance, with a sector focus on food and forest enterprises.
The Truckee Trails Foundation (TTF) is working towards a system of trails and bikeways in and around Truckee, California that will connect people and places, reduce our community's dependence on automobiles, and improve our physical,…
To empower residents and visitors alike by promoting options for healthy and happy lifestyles through outdoor adventures. to provide lifelong learning s.t.e.a.m. programs for young children and older students that inspire studying the…
The Food Bank of Northern Nevada, Inc.s (Food Banks) mission is Feeding the hungry today and solving hunger for tomorrow through community partnership. The Food Banks vision is Healthy Food. Every Person, Every Day.
The tahoe nordic search and rescue team (tnsar) ... was conceived in 1976 as a response to the death of a boy lost off the back side of northstar-at-tahoe ski area during a blizzard. there was, at the time, no organized backcountry team to…
To protect and restore sierra lands, water, wildlife and rural communities. to engage and support efforts to adopt exemplary local sustainable community actions accross the sierra nevada that balance social, economic and environmental…
To connect young people to the wonder and science of the natural world, igniting self-discovery and inspiring stewardship of our planet.
To enhance the health and well-being of the communities we serve.
Our mission is to provide a local food system that supports regenerative and sustainable farming practices by increasing access to local food for north lake tahoe. by addressing local food access challenges at a systems level, we create a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Valley Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Children's Museum of Northern N. 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 28 years old; the field is 9. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 35% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 20% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 45 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.
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- Who funds RENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
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- Who funds HIGHER GROUND USA INC ↗
- Who funds TRUCKEE MEADOWS PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds URBAN ROOTS GARDEN CLASSROOMS ↗
- Who funds EDDY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds 10000 DEGREES ↗
- Who funds NAPA VALLEY FARMWORKER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds XENOPHON THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds ON THE MOVE ↗
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- Who funds SIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ST HELENA AND CALISTOGA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Moraga Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds CALISTOGA FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CARE CHEST OF SIERRA NEVADA ↗
- Who funds SAFE TALK FOR TEENS ↗
- Who funds BLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds NEVADA HEALTH CENTERS 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: Thelma B & Thomas P Hart Foundation · The E L Cord Foundation · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Helen Close Charitable Foundation · John Ben Snow Memorial Tr Uw #839158 · Robert Z Hawkins Foundation · Roxie and Azad Joseph Foundation · William N Pennington Foundation · Peek Family Charitable Foundation · The Nell J Redfield Foundation · Renown Health · Community Foundation of Northern Nevada
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 Stillwater Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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