· Private foundation
The Thomas B Stanley Jr and Ruth B Stanley Family Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of THE THOMAS B STANLEY JR AND RUTH B STANLEY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| GRACE NETWORK | $7,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE BLUE RIDGE LIBRARIES | $6,500 |
| MARTINSVILLEHENRY COUNTY COALITION FOR H | $6,000 |
| SPENCER PENN CENTRE | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY STOREHOUSE | $5,000 |
| FEED THE HUNGRY SAN MIGUEL | $5,000 |
| PHCC FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SAN MIGUEL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| STANLEYTOWN UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $4,000 |
| CHRISTMAS CHEER | $4,000 |
| MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF GEORGIA | $4,000 |
| BASSETT COMMUNITY CENTER | $3,000 |
| HEALTHY PENINSULA | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 35% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 6% of The Thomas B Stanley Jr and Ruth B Stanley Family Foundation Inc’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.
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 +50% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
- KSKENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +104%
- AIATLANTA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +23%
- BDBOBBY DODD INSTITUTE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $24k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- GFGRADY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $5k
- CSCOMUNITY STOREHOUSEone grant, 2021 · $5k
AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AIDone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue -14%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Downeast Community Partners Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Cherokee Caddy Scholarship Foundation Inc. 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 37 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
54 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. 54 of the 97 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.
- Who funds KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds P E R C INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY STOREHOUSE ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA CELEBRATES PHOTOGRAPHY INC ↗
- Who funds BOBBY DODD INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE HILL PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds SAN MIGUEL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TREE OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds SOLUTIONS THAT EMPOWER PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds Henry County Food Pantry Inc ↗
- Who funds FEED THE HUNGRY SAN MIGUEL INC ↗
- Who funds House of Cherith Inc ↗
- Who funds CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds OPERA HOUSE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Bassett Rescue Squad Inc ↗
- Who funds BLUE HILL FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE BLUE HILL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL NORTHERN LIGHT BLUE HILL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds George Stevens Academy ↗
- Who funds Friends of Infinity Acres Ranch 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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Becton Family Foundation Sheila Heatter Trustee · The Gb Knecht Foundation · Lawrence Family Foundation · The Martin Foundation · The Clements Family Charitable Trust · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Harvest Foundation of the Piedmont · Prior Family Foundation · Whitehall Foundation Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · The Imlay Foundation Inc
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 Thomas B Stanley Jr and Ruth B Stanley Family 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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