Florida · Nonprofit
THE STELAE INC
THE STELAE INC (Florida) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $555,334 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($555,334). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $272k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $555k
- Net assets
- $427k
What The Stelae Inc does
Mission
The Stelae Inc. Plans to erect and maintain a large public monument in central florida. Principally, the monument consists of 3376 engraved granite slabs (the stelae), to be erected in a logarithmic spiral on the designated site. The site will also feature sixteen aeolian harps. Taken together, the monument will provide a space in which the public may experience both a sculptural installation and the visual representation of literary texts. The stelae will be engraved with works of poetry, prose, and graphic arts - (eleven novels, an autobiography, and more than a hundred poems) - based on a personalized, free translation of the hebrew tanakh (the christian old testament) - and constituting one literary epic that involves the relationship between a father and son, the life of a small southern community, and a journal written by the son as he and his father drive around the five continents of the world. For the latter part of the stelae's story, many of the granite slabs will contain th
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Construction in progress on erecting large monument including design and mockups of granite slabs to be installed for the monument.
Postage & mailing services
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $170k to $428k (+151%).
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.
100% of THE STELAE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $14k → $75k.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 THE STELAE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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.
Where its funders are
100% of THE STELAE INC'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $555k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
THE STELAE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like THE STELAE INC
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE STELAE INC: 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 THE STELAE INC?
- THE STELAE INC (Florida) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $555,334 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($555,334). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE STELAE INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $555,334 in grants to THE STELAE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE STELAE INC?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $555,334 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE STELAE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 1 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing