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The Stultz Foundation

Charlottesville, VA · EIN 27-1024255. Reported 134 grants totalling $880,191 to 37 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$2,000median grant
$880,191granted, 2021-2025
37recipients, as named on its returns
87%of grantees funded again the next year
$42,053assets, 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. The Stultz Foundation 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 $2,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $2,500; the smallest was $250 and the largest $307,812. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
28 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
80 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
16 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
5 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
2 grants
$100,000 and Up
3 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Martha Jefferson Hospital FoundationCharlottesville, VA$535,312552025
Focused Ultrasound FoundationCharlottesville, VA$55,000332024
First Presbyterian ChurchCharlottesville, VA$41,500552025
Virginia Athletics FoundationCharlottesville, VA$32,795552025
Network of Enlightened Women IncWashington, DC$18,000552025
Piedmont Va Comm College Education FoundationCharlottesville, VA$17,300332023
Boys and Girls Clubs of Central VirginiaCharlottesville, VA$16,385552025
Piedmont Community CollegeCharlottesville, VA$15,000222025
Farmington Historical Society FoundationCharlottesville, VA$14,000552025
Paramount TheaterCharlottesville, VA$12,500552025
Blue Ridge Area Food BankCharlottesville, VA$10,500552025
Charlottesville Free ClinicCharlottesville, VA$10,000552025
Whitman-Walker FoundationWashington, DC$10,000112021
PacemCharlottesville, VA$9,000442024
American Red CrossCharlottesville, VA$8,500442025
Meals on WheelsCharlottesville, VA$8,500552025
The CenterCharlottesville, VA$7,500552025
The Salvation ArmyCharlottesville, VA$6,500552025
Chesapeake OrchestraLeonardtown, MD$5,500332025
Building Goodness FoundationCharlottesville, VA$5,200332025
Georgia's FriendsCharlottesville, VA$5,000552025
Rappahannock Foundation for the ArtsWhite Stone, VA$5,000552025
The Woman's InitiativeCharlottesville, VA$5,000552025
Bridge MinistryCharlottesville, VA$4,500332025
Chesapeake AcademyIrvington, VA$3,550332025
Special Operations Warror FoundationTampa, FL$2,685332025
Hospice of the PiedmontCharlottesville, VA$2,500112025
Western Albemarle Rescue SquadCrozet, VA$2,300552025
Charlottesville-Albemarle Rescue SquadCharlottesville, VA$2,000552025
Grace Episcopal ChurchKeswick, VA$2,000332025
Healthy Harvest Food BankWarsaw, VA$1,650552025
Univ of Va Medical School FoundationCharlottesville, VA$1,500222023
The Northern Neck OrchestraKilmarnock, VA$1,006222025
The Mitford MuseumHudson, NC$1,000112022
The Ral Art CenterKilmarnock, VA$1,000112024
Marine Toys for Tots FoundationTriangle, VA$258112025
Wesley Memorial ChurchCharlottesville, VA$250112024

31 of 37 (84%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 87%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 77 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Health Care
15 grants
Arts & Culture
15 grants
Education
13 grants
Human Services
9 grants
Youth Development
5 grants
Food & Nutrition
5 grants
Housing & Shelter
4 grants
Diseases & Disorders
4 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202124$68,150$2,000
202227$86,925$2,000
202324$164,100$2,000
202430$188,435$1,500
202529$372,581$2,000

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

96% of its giving went to organizations in Virginia. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

Virginia
$843K
District of Columbia
$28K
Maryland
$6K
Florida
$3K
North Carolina
$1K

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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund18 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc16 shared recipientsCharlottesville Area Community12 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust10 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program10 shared recipientsManning Family Foundation8 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Virginia.
  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.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from The Stultz Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 3344, Charlottesville, VA, 22903. 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 27-1024255 · 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.

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