· Private foundation
William Stanley Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $2,012 |
| UCCS FARM | $2,000 |
| I-THIRST INTERNATIONAL | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| NAT SPACE SCIENCE TECH | $2,000 |
| SPACE ACADEMY | $2,000 |
| CIVICO | $2,000 |
| EDUCATING CHILDREN OF C | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| PEAK EDUCATION | $2,000 |
| NAT HISPANIC HONOR SOC | $2,000 |
| STAGING HER | $1,814 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 17 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, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PEPeak Education6× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +283%
- MMMINDS MATTER COLORADO INC3× · 2021–2023 · $9k · revenue +28%
- CSCOLORADO SPRINGS PIONEERS MUSEUM2× · 2020–2021 · $2k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- APAtlas Preparatory School Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +94%
- RCROTARY CLUBone grant, 2021 · $3k
- KOKIDS ON BIKES INCone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +7%
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.
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.
Ascend College Prep is a public high school for 10-12th grade students in Colorado Springs and the surrounding area. Our Mission is to "Prepare and inspire students to become lifelong learners and responsible citizens through rigorous…
The Center for Nonprofit Excellence strengthens Southern Colorado's nonprofit sector through leadership and resource development, advocacy and collaboration. Together, with our partners, we are co-creating a vibrant community in the Pikes…
Provide education for students in Pre-K through 8th grade, benefitting approximately 415 students.
WCLI empowers women in Colorado Springs to realize their full leadership potential, breakdown barriers to advancement, create a more inclusive and equitable community for all.
Develop college pathways for students with intellectual disabilities.
La Plata Youth Services, Inc. supports and advocates for youth facing challenges in school, home and court.
Through individualized learning and responsive mentoring, we inspire, guide and empower students and families.
Promote the general interest of daily, weekly, and monthly newspapers and online publications, improve editorials and business methods of daily and weekly newspapers, and advance those newspapers' usefulness and influence in the public…
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How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 86 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Peak Education ↗
- Who funds MINDS MATTER COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds Leadership Pikes Peak ↗
- Who funds Atlas Preparatory School Inc ↗
- Who funds KIDS ON BIKES INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Literacy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds PIKES PEAK UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds I THIRST INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Youth Documentary Academy ↗
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: The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Pikes Peak Community Foundation · The Hester E & Edwin W Giddings Foundation · Colorado Springs Health Foundation · Jerome V Bruni Foundation · The Myron Stratton Home · Pikes Peak United Way · The Anschutz Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Dusty and Katherine Loo Foundation Dba Bloom Foundation · The Moniker Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization William Stanley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William Stanley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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