Utah · Private foundation
The Stirling 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.
- $3.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 44
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 54%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $513,037
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 26
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 54% of the organizations The Stirling Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $686k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 44 | $3.7M | 66% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $2.6M | 54% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $2.3M | 42% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $3.3M | 56% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $1.3M | 56% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $1.6M | 86% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $57k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coaxion Global Inc | $221,062 | 1 | 39% |
| doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation | $205,110 | 2 | 1% |
| Hopkin Foundation | $147,450 | 3 | 18% |
| Care for Life Inc | $120,000 | 1 | 24% |
| Utah Muslim Civic League | $91,200 | 2 | n/a |
| Welcome Hand Inc | $58,200 | 1 | n/a |
| We the World Inc | $50,300 | 1 | 12% |
| Seeds of Kati | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Engage Now Africa Inc | $16,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Euroseminar Foundation | $8,076 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 15 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coaxion Global Inc | $221,062 | 1 | 39% |
| doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation | $205,110 | 2 | 1% |
| Hopkin Foundation | $147,450 | 3 | 18% |
| Care for Life Inc | $120,000 | 1 | 24% |
| Utah Muslim Civic League | $91,200 | 2 | n/a |
| Welcome Hand Inc | $58,200 | 1 | n/a |
| We the World Inc | $50,300 | 1 | 12% |
| Seeds of Kati | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Engage Now Africa Inc | $16,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Euroseminar Foundation | $8,076 | 2 | n/a |
| Kids on the Move Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Catholic Community Services of Utah | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Kol Ami | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| A Child's Hope Foundation | $1,820 | 1 | 0% |
| Rwandan Community Abroad | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 74 recipients with no EIN on record ($14M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Stirling Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Clark and Christine Ivory Foundation · doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Stirling Foundation
- How much does The Stirling Foundation give?
- The Stirling Foundation reported 44 grants totaling $3,677,576 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 26 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Stirling Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (52%), Education (11%), Crime & Legal (10%).
- Who are The Stirling Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Coaxion Global Inc ($221k), doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation ($205k), Hopkin Foundation ($147k).
- Does The Stirling Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Stirling Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Stirling Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Clark and Christine Ivory Foundation, doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is The Stirling Foundation based?
- The Stirling Foundation is based in UT.
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