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Stafast Foundation Inc

Worthington, OH · EIN 34-1485142. Reported 78 grants totalling $903,475 to 32 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$10,000median grant
$903,475granted, 2021-2024
32organizations funded
83%of grantees funded again the next year
$193,699assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Stafast Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $10,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $15,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $35,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
15 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
19 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
32 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
12 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Fellowship of Christian Athletes Metro ClevelandOakwood Village, OH$110,000442024
Samaritans PurseBoone, NC$83,000442024
York County Fellowship of Christian AthletesRock Hill, SC$70,000222022
God CaresAvon Lake, OH$60,000442024
Greater Cleveland Youth for ChristCleveland, OH$54,000222023
Youth for Christ - Greater ClevelandCleveland, OH$50,000222024
Focus on the FamilyColorado Springs, CO$45,000442024
Hannah's HomeMentor, OH$37,500442024
Teen ChallengePerry, OH$37,500442024
Alliance Defending FreedomScottsdale, AZ$36,500442024
Fellowship of Christian Athletes York CountyRock Hill, SC$35,000112024
PdhcBoone, NC$35,000442024
One Way MinistriesAurora, IL$31,725332023
City MissionCleveland, OH$30,000442024
Fcayork County Fellowship of Christian AthletesKansas City, MO$26,000112023
Billy Graham Evangelistic AssociatiCharlotte, NC$25,000332023
Urban ConcernColumbus, OH$20,000222022
Friends of CicrinWaynesboro, VA$16,500442024
Love IncIndependence, OH$15,000222024
Akili Christian SchoolColumbus, OH$10,000112024
Bible Study FellowshipSan Antonio, TX$10,000112021
Harambeeurban ConcernColumbus, OH$10,000112023
American Family AssociationTupelo, MS$8,000222024
Dwell-Epic CampColumbus, OH$7,000222024
Athletes in ActionXenia, OH$6,500332023
Asaph TalksMarvin, NC$6,000112023
Stony GlenMadison, OH$5,250442024
Fellowship of Christian Athletes MississippiHoulka, MS$5,000112024
Fieldstone CounselingUniontown, OH$5,000112024
Xenos Christian FellowshipColumbus, OH$5,000112021
FcamississippiFlowood, MS$4,000112023
Urban ConnectionColumbus, OH$4,000112024

21 of 32 (66%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 83%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 29 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Religion
18 grants
Human Services
7 grants
Civil Rights
4 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202119$247,975$10,000
202218$241,250$10,875
202321$213,750$8,000
202420$200,500$5,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 52% of this one's giving went to organizations in Ohio. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Ohio
$467K
North Carolina
$149K
South Carolina
$105K
Colorado
$45K
Arizona
$36K
Illinois
$32K
Missouri
$26K
Mississippi
$17K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal 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 Fund12 shared recipientsNatl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc12 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc10 shared recipientsAmerican Endowment Foundation6 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program6 shared recipientsRaymond James Charitable Endowment Fund6 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $10,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Ohio.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

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

Address of record on the latest return: 48 East South Street, Worthington, OH, 43085. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 34-1485142 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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