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The Stocker 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k125 grants · $278k
- $10k–50k66 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k5 grants · $440k
- $250k+2 grants · $850k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHERN ARIZONA | $500,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE | $350,000 |
| FOOTPATH FOUNDATION | $152,175 |
| ELYRIA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $87,500 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO | $75,000 |
| SAN JUAN ISLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT | $75,000 |
| GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LORAIN COUNTY | $47,500 |
| SAVE OUR CHILDREN OF ELYRIA | $40,983 |
| LORAIN COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC | $38,484 |
| TUCSON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS | $35,000 |
| FOX TUCSON THEATRE FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| SARSEF-SOUTHERN ARIZONA RESEARCH SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CONNECTICUT | $30,000 |
| EL CENTRO DE SERVICIOS SOCIALES | $30,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 15% of The Stocker Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 42% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 24% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +35% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
187 repeat relationships — 109 still active in FY2024, 78 since wound down; 33 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $468k 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
- NANEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE5× · 2020–2024 · $488k · revenue +26%
- LHLORAIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY5× · 2020–2024 · $248k · revenue +57%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO4× · 2020–2023 · $245k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- OBOBERLIN BOARD OF EDUCATIONone grant, 2021 · $80k
- LCLORAIN COUNTY IMAGINATION LIBRARYone grant, 2020 · $75k
- TCTHE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSEone grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +11%
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.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
To ensure that every student can become a confident, independent, and lifelong reader by partnering with schools and communities to provide personalized, evidence-based literacy support and individualized instruction. the organization…
Achieve now is a philadelphia-based social justice organization that sees literacy as a mechanism to effect social change. our mission is to provide k-2 school children in greater philadelphia with high-quality, culturally competent…
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
Out teach's mission is to inspire and prepare today's elementary students to explore the wonders of science and become tomorrow's innovators. out teach works to ensure that all studentsregardless of race, zip code, or access to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wee Care Closet. 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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
297 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. 297 of the 393 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHERN ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LORAIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LORAIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds SAVE OUR CHILDREN OF ELYRIA ↗
- Who funds LAS CRUCES PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds TUCSON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS ↗
- Who funds LITERACY CONNECTS ↗
- Who funds FOOTPATH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TECH CORPS OHIO ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S READING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds JOYCE L SOBEL FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CRUCES CREATIVES ↗
- Who funds EL CENTRO DE SERVICIOS SOCIALES INC ↗
- Who funds ACT ONE ↗
- Who funds ROADRUNNER FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc ↗
- Who funds FOX TUCSON THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Team Read ↗
- Who funds New Mexico State Univ Fdn Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds BLESSING HOUSE ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPY OHIO ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Education Fund ↗
- Who funds LORAIN COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOORS INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANITIES WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds SPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: The Nord Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Lorain County · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · Martha Holden Jennings Foundation · Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · The Abington Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · Norton Family Foundation · Marshall Foundation
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 Stocker Foundation 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.
- The Village for Families and Children — 50% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut Inc — 15% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- Hill-Stead Museum — 7% of income from government
- Girls Inc of the Pacific Northwest — 4% of income from government
- New England Carousel Museum Inc — 2% of income from government
- Bristol Boys & Girls Club Association Inc — 2% of income from government
- Connecticut Storytelling Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Healing Meals Foundation Corporation — 0% of income from government
- The Family Center Inc — 0% of income from government
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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