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Stachestrong Inc

Vestal, NY · EIN 82-4875614. Reported 38 grants totalling $3,607,461 to 26 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

26organizations funded
$65,000median reported grant
$3,607,461granted, 2021-2024
20%of grantees funded again the next year
31%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Stachestrong Inc, the IRS classifies it under medical research rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE H30) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 26 distinct organizations, with 31% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 20% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $65,000. Half of what it reported fell between $50,000 and $100,000; the smallest was $10,000 and the largest $697,625. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$10,000 - $25,000
1 grant
$25,000 - $50,000
5 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
18 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
12 grants
$250,000 Or More
2 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
University of MiamiCoral Gables, FL$1,122,151432024
Duke University Health System IncDurham, NC$248,620222023
Regents Univ of CaliforniaLos Angeles, CA$225,000332024
Northwestern UniversityEvanston, IL$165,000222024
The Society of Neurological Surgeons IncSchaumburg, IL$165,000222024
Barrow Neurological FoundationPhoenix, AZ$150,000112021
National Brain Tumor Society IncNewton, MA$150,000222022
Neurosurgery Research and Education FoundationRolling Meadows, IL$150,000222022
American Association for Cancer ResearchPhiladelphia, PA$126,000222024
UpmcPittsburgh, PA$115,000222024
American Brain Tumor AssociationChicago, IL$100,000112023
Brigham and Women's HospitalBoston, MA$100,000112024
The Ut MD Anderson Cancer CenterHouston, TX$100,000112022
University of Southern CaliforniaLos Angeles, CA$96,407112024
Trustees of the University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, PA$65,431112021
Henry Ford Health SystemDetroit, MI$65,000112021
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiNew York, NY$65,000112021
Nebraska MedicineOmaha, NE$63,250112021
The Ut Health Science Center at HoustonHouston, TX$60,579112022
The Feinstein Institute for Medical ResearchWestbury, NY$50,000112023
University of ChicagoChicago, IL$50,000112023
University of FloridaGainesville, FL$50,000112022
Weill Medical College of Cornell UnivsersityNew York, NY$40,023112022
Harvard University BidmcBoston, MA$35,000112023
Ny Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center New YorkNew York, NY$25,000112023
University at IllinoisSpringfield, IL$25,000112023

9 of 26 (35%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 15 of 26 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Education
5 orgs
Health Care
4 orgs
Medical Research
3 orgs
Recreation & Sports
1 org
Diseases & Disorders
1 org
Mutual Benefit
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202110$936,827$65,215
20229$650,602$65,000
202310$586,000$50,000
20249$1,434,032$96,407

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

32% of its giving went to organizations in Florida. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Florida
$1.2M
Illinois
$655K
California
$321K
Pennsylvania
$306K
Massachusetts
$285K
North Carolina
$249K
New York
$180K
Texas
$161K

Down to the city

Coral Gables, FL
$1.1M
Los Angeles, CA
$321K
Durham, NC
$249K
Philadelphia, PA
$191K
Evanston, IL
$165K
Schaumburg, IL
$165K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund8 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust7 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc7 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program7 shared recipientsAmerican Endowment Foundation6 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc6 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $65,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Florida.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Stachestrong Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 9 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 511 Castleman Road, Vestal, NY, 13850.

EIN 82-4875614 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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