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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.

$320k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$485kEducation$315kInternational$220kPhilanthropy$170kRecreation & Sports$110kCrime & Legal$90kArts & Culture$88kYouth Development$80kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $200k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$15,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE ADVOCATES$50,000
NOTE-ABLE MUSIC THERAPY SERVICES - MCKINLEY ARTS & CULTURE CENTER$50,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN NEVADA$40,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION STOCKMAN FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP FUND$30,000
MEDSHARE$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
RENO PHILHARMONIC$5,000
HIATUS RANCH$5,000
SKYTAVERN$5,000
HIGHER GROUND$5,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ON THE MOVE - VOICES: $10k → 9%XENOPHON THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $5k → 9%XENOPHON THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $5k → 9%XENOPHON THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $5k → 9%SUN VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR RESILIENCE: $3k → 7%THE EDDY HOUSE: $15k → 10%SAFE TALK FOR TEENS: $5k → 10%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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 22 repeat orgs$169k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +115% since the first grant, against +47% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
20

Total granted

$1.5M
$149k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+115%
+47%

Still filing today

50%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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

  • CA
    CHEF ANN FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $55k · revenue ×12
  • FI
    FARWISE INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $55k · revenue +662%
  • ST
    Sky Tavern Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +376%

Funded once

  • UR
    URBAN ROOTS GARDEN CLASSROOMSgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +27%
  • CT
    CARSON TAHOE REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • EH
    EDDY HOUSEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue ×38
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
Healthy Nevada
Health
2
Sierra Harvest

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…

Food & Nutrition
3
Sierra Commons

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.

Community Improvement
4
Truckee Trails Foundation Inc

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,…

Environment
5
Outside Las Vegas Foundation

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…

Human Services
6
Food Bank of Northern Nevada Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
7
Tahoe Nordic Search & Rescue Inc

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…

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8
Sierra Nevada Alliance

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…

Environment
9
Naturebridge

To connect young people to the wonder and science of the natural world, igniting self-discovery and inspiring stewardship of our planet.

Environment
10
Carson Tahoe Regional Healthcare

To enhance the health and well-being of the communities we serve.

Health
11
Nevada Agricultural Foundation
Food & Nutrition
12
Tahoe Food Hub

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…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Valley Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 45 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
24/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NOTE-ABLE MUSIC THERAPY SERVICES - MCKINLEY ARTS & CULTURE CENTER: $455,000 · OtherNOTE-ABLE MUSIC THERAPY SERVICES - MCKINLEY ARTS & CULTURE CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $125,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER CU PIIE PROGRAM: $85,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER CU PIIE PROGRAMUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION CU LEEDS EXCEL PROGRAM: $75,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION CU LEEDS EXCEL PROGRAMTHE ADVOCATES: $75,000 · OtherTHE ADVOCATESUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION STOCKMAN FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $60,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION STOCKMAN FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP FUNDTERRY LEE WELLS DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $40,000 · OtherRENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC: $40,000 · Other+16 more: $151,100 · Other+16 moreMEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL INC: $200,000 · InternationalMEDSHARE INT…Community Foundation of Northern Nevada: $160,000 · PhilanthropyCommunity …NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyNORTH VALL…CHEF ANN FOUNDATION: $55,000 · EducationCHEF ANN F…FARWISE INC: $55,000 · EducationFARWISE IN…URBAN ROOTS GARDEN CLASSROOMS: $20,000 · EducationURBAN ROOT…NAPA VALLEY FARMWORKER FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationNAPA VALLE…10000 DEGREES: $15,000 · Education10000 DEGR…+1 more: $5,200 · EducationSky Tavern Inc: $40,000 · Recreation & SportsTRUCKEE MEADOWS PARKS FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsHIGHER GROUND USA INC: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsRENO BIKE PROJECT INC: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentSIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ST HELENA AND CALISTOGA INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentXENOPHON THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $15,000 · Human ServicesEDDY HOUSE: $15,000 · Human ServicesON THE MOVE: $10,000 · Human ServicesSAFE TALK FOR TEENS: $5,000 · Human ServicesSUN VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR RESILIENCE: $3,000 · Human Services
Other$1,106,100International$200,000Philanthropy$170,000Education$165,200Recreation & Sports$110,000Youth Development$60,000Human Services$48,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL INC: $200,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Foundation of Northern Nevada: $160,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCHEF ANN FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetFARWISE INC: $55,000 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetSky Tavern Inc: $40,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetRENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC: $40,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTRUCKEE MEADOWS PARKS FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetHIGHER GROUND USA INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $20,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN ROOTS GARDEN CLASSROOMS: $20,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetXENOPHON THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $15,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetNAPA VALLEY FARMWORKER FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetEDDY HOUSE: $15,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budget10000 DEGREES: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetON THE MOVE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRENO BIKE PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ST HELENA AND CALISTOGA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMoraga Education Foundation: $5,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCARE CHEST OF SIERRA NEVADA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNEVADA HEALTH CENTERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALISTOGA FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetSAFE TALK FOR TEENS: $5,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetBLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSUN VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR RESILIENCE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEVADA URBAN INDIANS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NORTHERN N: $2,500 over 1y, 1.6% 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 MEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Community Foundation of Northern Nevada ↗
  • Who funds CHEF ANN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FARWISE INC ↗
  • Who funds Sky Tavern Inc ↗
  • Who funds RENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS ↗
  • Who funds TRUCKEE MEADOWS PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HIGHER GROUND USA INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds URBAN ROOTS GARDEN CLASSROOMS ↗
  • Who funds XENOPHON THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NAPA VALLEY FARMWORKER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EDDY HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds 10000 DEGREES ↗
  • Who funds ON THE MOVE ↗
  • Who funds NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS ↗
  • Who funds RENO BIKE PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ST HELENA AND CALISTOGA INC ↗
  • Who funds Moraga Education Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CARE CHEST OF SIERRA NEVADA ↗
  • Who funds NEVADA HEALTH CENTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
  • Who funds CALISTOGA FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds SAFE TALK FOR TEENS ↗

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.

Thelma B & Thomas P H…The E L Cord Foundati…NV Energy Charitable …Helen Close Charitabl…John Ben Snow Memoria…Robert Z Hawkins Foun…Roxie and Azad Joseph…William N Pennington …Peek Family Charitabl…The Nell J Redfield F…Renown HealthCommunity Foundation …
Thelma B & Thomas P Hart FoundationNV30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Stillwater Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Stillwater Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 45 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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