California · Nonprofit
STAND TO REASON
STAND TO REASON (California) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,602,123 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($674,932). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Stand to Reason does
Mission
Stand to Reason's vision is to provide the training to build a new generation of confident, courageous, yet winsome and attractive ambassadors for christ capable of restoring credibility to the christian world view. Our mission is to equip (see schedule o) confident, courageous, clear-thinking, and gracious christians who can represent jesus to the world. Our plan has five parts (broadcast, publications, internet, self-directed training curricula, and public speaking and seminars), and we are working our plan very intentionally.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Stand to Reason speakers taught at over 114 events in 2025, many of which involved multiple sessions over multiple days. Str hosted six reality student conferences in cities across the country (atlanta, ga; seattle, wa; minneapolis, mn; dallas, tx; philadelphia, pa; and dayton, oh) with nearly 11,000 total attendees. Str aired 49 radio broadcasts on a dozen affiliates across the country, and over 1.14 million podcast episodes were downloaded from countries around the world. Nearly 3.3 million pages were viewed on str's website, and our youtube videos received 1.2 million views. We also have over 23k learners enrolled in our online training courses at str university.
$2,709,217 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,709,217.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.2M to $2.4M (+104%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
92% of STAND TO REASON’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
William Bradford
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $287k → $371k.
14 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of STAND TO REASON’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
STAND TO REASON has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
63% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund STAND TO REASON.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 37% · 2019 46% · 2020 31% · 2021 25% · 2022 27% · 2023 31% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
62% of STAND TO REASON's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
61% of STAND TO REASON's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.0M that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
STAND TO REASON's revenue grew 66% between 2018 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,325 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like STAND TO REASON
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for STAND TO REASON: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds STAND TO REASON?
- STAND TO REASON (California) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,602,123 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($674,932). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does STAND TO REASON have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $2,602,123 in grants to STAND TO REASON, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STAND TO REASON?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $674,932 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STAND TO REASON find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 31 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing