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The Stratus Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to raise funds to provide scholarships to help graduating seniors of two local high schools with college tuition and/or provide contributions to selected charitable organizations.

$33k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Health$84kFood & Nutrition$75kEducation$49kYouth Development$25kHuman Services$24kEmployment$10kAnimals$10kPhilanthropy$8k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 3 grants below total $20,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $32,995 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $12,995 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$222k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND$10,000
BREAKTHROUGH T1D$5,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 36% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%A KID AGAIN: $5k → 13%SUB ZERO MISSION: $9k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NH
IL
WI
NY
OH
CO
VA
TN
NC
GA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$202k · 6 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
8

Total granted

$202k
$73k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+4%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitOther

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

  • E6
    END 68 HOURS OF HUNGER
    3× · 2019–2024 · $60k · revenue +21%
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    3× · 2019–2025 · $47k · revenue +17%
  • CY
    CAVALIERS YOUTH FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $25k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $12k · revenue 0%
  • ISAIAH 117 HOUSE
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • DT
    Dogs to Dog Tags Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
2
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health
3
Lung Cancer Research Foundation

The mission of the lung cancer research foundation is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.

Health
4
Brightfocus Foundation

Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…

Health
5
Mila's Miracle Foundation

The mission of mila's miracle foundation is to find and fund paths to a cure for batten and other life-threatening neurological disorders. families in this community have been pivotal in raising the necessary funds and awareness. together,…

Health
6
Blood Cancer United Inc

Our mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.

Health
7
Als Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Prostate Cancer Foundation

The prostate cancer foundation (pcf) funds the world's most promising research on the biology and treatment of prostate cancer, accelerating those discoveries into therapies and strategies designed to improve the quality of life and…

Philanthropy
9
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

10
Debbie's Dream Foundation

Debbie's dream foundation:curing stomach cancer is dedicated to raising awareness about stomach cancer, providing education, advocacy, and support internationally to patients, families, and caregivers affected by the disease, and advancing…

Human Services
11
Gates Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Critical Path Institute

The critical path institute is a catalyst in the development of new approaches that advance medical innovation and regulatory science. this is achieved by leading teams that share data, knowledge and expertise resulting in sound, consensus…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Western Union Foundation. 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

16 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
9/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

END 68 HOURS OF HUNGER — $60,200 · Food & NutritionEND 68 HOURS OF HUNGERFeeding America — $15,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding AmericaALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $47,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED…THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $17,550 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION …BREAKTHROUGH T1D — $5,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1DAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $5,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCWESTERN UNION FOUNDATION — $37,000 · EducationWESTERN UNION FOUNDATIONSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $12,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TO…Lowes Foundation — $10,000 · EducationLowes FoundationCAL'S ALL-STAR ANGEL FOUNDATION INC — $9,000 · EducationCAL'S ALL-STAR ANGEL FOUNDA…CAVALIERS YOUTH FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAVALIERS…ISAIAH 117 HOUSE — $10,000 · Human ServicesISAIAH 11…THE SUB ZERO MISSION — $9,000 · Human ServicesTHE SUB Z…A KID AGAIN INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesA KID AGA…Dogs to Dog Tags Inc — $10,000 · Public BenefitMIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $7,500 · Philanthropy
Food & Nutrition$75,200Health$74,550Education$68,000Youth Development$25,000Human Services$24,000Public Benefit$10,000Philanthropy$7,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEND 68 HOURS OF HUNGER — $60,200 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $47,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAVALIERS YOUTH FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $17,550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISAIAH 117 HOUSE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDogs to Dog Tags Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLowes Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE SUB ZERO MISSION — $9,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCAL'S ALL-STAR ANGEL FOUNDATION INC — $9,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA KID AGAIN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE7.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Stratus 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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