Stand Together Foundation

The Stand Together Foundation, formerly known as Public Notice Research and Education Fund, is a Charles Koch founded "venture philanthropy" 501(c)(3) organization. Although Koch's Freedom Partners invited reporter Fredreka Schouten to the 2016 winter donor summit to write an exclusive story on the establishment of Stand Together, no press release was posted on any of the Koch network sites announcing its start.

On May 20, 2019, the Koch network announced that is was rebranding "the constellation of groups funded by the billionaire industrialist Charles Koch and around 700 like-minded conservatives and libertarians who contribute at least $100,000 annually" as Stand Together.

Stand Together Foundation is led by the Seminar Network's Brian Hooks who will serve as Chairman and CEO. Before taking on this role, Hooks served for eight years as executive director of the Koch-funded Mercatus Center at George Mason University was president of the Charles Koch Foundation in 2014.

Stand Together has a sister organization: Stand Together Chamber of Commerce.

Koch Wiki

Charles Koch is the right-wing billionaire owner of Koch Industries. As one of the richest people in the world, he is a key funder of the right-wing infrastructure, including the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and the State Policy Network (SPN). In SourceWatch, key articles on Charles Koch and his late brother David include: Koch Brothers, Americans for Prosperity, Stand Together Chamber of Commerce, Stand Together, Koch Family Foundations, Koch Universities, and I360.

News and Controversies

STF Funds Groups that Push Critical Race Theory Bans While Publicly Opposing Them

In late 2021, STF and its funder Charles Koch received heavy criticism from conservatives for opposing legislative bans on "teaching critical race theory while making donations to organizations that seek to permit them." In response to the criticisms Evan Feinberg, executive director of the Stand Together Foundation, stated, "Using government to ban ideas, even those we disagree with, is also counter to core American principles—the principles that help drive social progress."

While some support STF's efforts to stop legislatures from regulating how teachers teach, others, like Lisa Graves, board president for the Center for Media and Democracy, point out the blanket hypocrisy of it "They have this nice position they want to tout from a P.R. standpoint. But their money has gone to these groups that have the opposite effect on that agenda."

Key Role in Koch Rebrand

Emerging publically in 2015, the Stand Together Foundation was a part of "a public relations makeover in the wake of a decade of sustained public criticism of the Koch brothers' business and political pursuits. Koch Industries was best known for its pollution, its support for climate change denial, its alleged theft of oil from the Osage Nation, and its pervasive political influence."

This rebrand was an attempt for Charles Koch to shift public attention away from his activities under a new foundation arm.

Funding

Stand Together is not required to disclose its funders. Its major foundation funders, however, can be found through a search of the IRS filings. Here are some of the known funders:

• Adams Fund: $85,000 (2020-2021)
• American Endowment Foundation: $15,000 (2020-2021)
• Barrette Family Fund: $90,000 (2020-2021)
• Bellevue Foundation: $310,000 (2020-2021)
• Benjamin Benedict Green-Field Foundation: $7,500 (2019,2021)
• California Community Foundation: $300,000 (2017)
• Cdv5 Foundation: $100,000 (2021)
• Chandna Foundation: $1,000 (2020)
• Charles Koch Foundation: $25,116 (2019-2020)
• Communities Foundation Of Texas: $525,000 (2016-2021)
• Daniel & Pamella Devos Foundation: $100,000 (2021)
• Deason Foundation: $2,50,000 (2020-2021)
• Dick And Betsy Devos Family Foundation: $100,000 (2021)
• Donorstrust: $300,000 (2017-2019)
• Dougherty Family Foundation: $2,500 (2022)
• Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation: $500,000 (2021)
• Dupage Community Foundation: $50,000 (2022)
• Einhorn Family Foundation: $25,000 (2016)
• Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund: $4,823,070 (2019-2021)
• Georgy Family Foundation: $1,000 (2019)
• Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund: $120,000 (2020-2021)
• Greater Cincinnati Foundation: $200,000 (2020-2021)
• Greater Houston Community Foundation: $9,500 (2019)
• Greater Kansas City Community Foundation: $54,250 (2019)
• Hackstock Family Foundation C/O Nick J Hackstock: $10,000 (2021)
• Harmes C Fishback Foundation Trust: $5,000 (2020)
• Haynes Charitable Foundation: $100,000 (2019)
• Haynes Family Foundation: $2,000 (2019)
• Healey Family Foundation: $5,000 (2021)
• Hobsonlucas Family Foundation: $10,000 (2021)
• Hostetlerwrigley Foundation Inc: $50,000 (2020)
• Ipop Foundation: $100,000 (2021-2022)
• Jlh Foundation: $100,000 (2021)
• John J Pohanka Family Foundation: $25,000 (2019)
• Lair Foundation: $50,000 (2021)
• Lester Family Foundation C/O Kirk Lester: $1,500,000 (2020-2021)
• Mansmann Foundation: $25,000 (2021)
• Mccullough Family Foundation: $500 (2019)
• Miles Foundation Inc: $205,000 (2020-2021)
• Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc: $100,000 (2020)
• National Christian Charitable Foundation: $2,581,101 (2019,2021)
• National Philanthropic Trust: $80,395,000 (2020-2021)
• Peter Bowe And Barbara Stewart Foundation: $100,000 (2021)
• Sarah Ketterer Family Foundation: $2,350,000 (2019-2021)
• Schwab Charitable Fund: $110,000 (2017)
• Seminar Network: $7,337,898 (2019-2021)
• Silicon Valley Community Foundation: $250,000 (2017-2018,2020)
• Society For Human Resource Management: $100,000 (2018)
• Stand Together Trust: $6,624,316 (2017-2021)
• Sue Hostetler & Beau Wrigley Family Foundation: $50,000 (2020)
• Take His Hand Foundation: $10,000 (2019)
• Teach A Man To Fish Foundation: $350,000 (2019-2020)
• Todd S Farha Foundation: $30,000 (2022)
• Troesh Family Foundation: $300,000 (2019-2021)
• Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program: $10,000 (2021)
• Villa West I: $5,207,643 (2017)
• Walter C & Stefanie A Zable Family Foundation: $100,000 (2019)
• Widger Family Foundation: $100,000 (2021)
• Wilson Sheehan Foundation: $500,000 (2020-2022)

Grants

2022

Grantees:

• 12 The Last Mile: $1,250,000
• Act: $100,000
• Action Network: $50,000
• American Youth Arts Society Inc: $35,000
• America On Tech: $ 25,000
• Amplify Peace: $25,000
• Anthony Joiner Jr Dba Mulberry Arts: $15,000
• Arrabon: $25,000
• Baltimore Crisis Response Inc: $25,000
• Be Great Together Inc: $25,000
• Benevolence Farm: $25,000
• Be The Bridge: $25,000
• Beyond The Ball: $50,000
• Beyond Visionary: $ 25,000
• Bible Center Church Inc: $15,000
• Big Table: $ 25,000
• Blue Star Recylers: $ 25,000
• Bma Tenpoint Inc: $25,000
• Boys & Girls Club Of South Central Kansas: $15,000
• Breaking Chains Making Amends: $25,000
• Bridgeleader Network Inc: $25,000
• Brigid's Path: $103,000
• Build Up: $25,000
• Cara Program: $125,000
• Cara Program Dba Cara Chicago: $95,000
• Centro Community Partners: $25,000
• Chance490 Foundation: $35,000
• Change Labs: $25,000
• Christian Skaters Inc: $25,000
• Citizen University: $250,000
• Colossian Forum: $25,000
• Commit Foundation: $25,000
• Create Common Good: $25,000
• Dallas Leadership Foundation: $25,000
• Dallas Violence Interrupters Partnership: $50,000
• Dawn Epp Dba Family Promise Of Greater Wichita: $15,000
• Dbg: $100,000
• Deuce Community Inc: $ 25,000
• Dreamhouse Make A Difference Foundation: $25,000
• Drive Change Inc: $25,000
• Duquesne University: $25,000
• Earn Inc: $25,000
• Education Opens Doors: $310,000
• Elevate Usa: $100,000
• Emmanuel Missionary Baptist Church Inc: $50,000
• Empower Evergreen Inc: $15,000
• Essential Partners, Inc: $ 25,000
• Families Empowered: $100,000
• Family Worship Center: $10,000
• Father's Uplift: $100,000
• Federation Of Neighborhood Centers Dba Onesup: $25,000
• First Step Staffing: $100,000
• Folds Of Honor: $25,000
• Forgotten Initiative: $10,000
• Foster Nation: $25,000
• Found Village: $100,000
• Found Village: $25,000
• Fountain Fund: $25,000
• Fp Youthoutcry Foundation Inc: $50,000
• Frederick Douglass Project For Justice: $ 25,000
• Gatherfor Inc: $25,000
• Give An Hour: $100,000
• Global Orphan Project: $100,000
• Global Orphan Project Inc: $25,000
• Greater Valley Community Services: $25,000
• Handson Central California: $25,000
• Harvest Christian Fellowship: $10,000
• Hawa's Wings Inc: $50,000
• Home For Refugees Usa: $10,000
• Hope For Justice: $25,000
• Hope Renovations: $50,000
• Housing Authority Of The City Of Fresno: $50,000
• Houston Responds: $ 50,000
• Hub Argentine Inc:15,000
• Hudson Link For Education In Prison, Inc: $13,500
• Humble Abode Residence: $ 25,000
• Humble Design: $25,000
• Icna Relief Usa Programs Inc: $10,000
• Ict Sos: $15,000
• Impact Ventures: $25,000
• Inheritance Project Ltd: $10,000
• Inside Outside Circle Foundation: $25,000
• International Youth Organization: $50,000
• Jerusalem Farm: $25,000
• Jesse Tree: $ 25,000
• Join Freeworld Inc: $220,000
• Just: $100,000
• Justice Journey Alliance Leadership Foundation Of Chicago: $25,000
• Kansas Hispanic Education & Development Foundation: $15,000
• Kelly Brush Foundation: $25,000
• Kingdom Empowerment Cdc: $100,000
• L & J Empowerment Inc: $50,000
• Lawndale Christian Legal Center: $100,000
• Lead For America: $15,000
• Legacy Children's Foundation: $25,000
• Let The Beat Build Foundation: $50,000
• Love Deposit Inc: $ 50,000
• Love Has No Limits Inc: $2,000,000
• Love Schools Inc: $15,000
• Momentum Advisory Collective: $1,863,333
• Mortar: $25,000
• Ms. Houston's Caring Hands: $25,000
• Musicambia Inc: $25,000
• Muslim Youth For Positive Impact: $25,000
• Nancy Lieberman Charities: $ 35,000
• Narrative 4: $1,000,000
• National Angels:100,000
• New Vision Youth Services Inc: $100,000
• No More Foundation Inc:10,000
• One America Movement: $ 268,000
• On The Road Lending: $100,000
• Our House: $100,000
• Passageways Ltd: $15,000
• Path United: $100,000
• Pearls: $100,000
• People Helping People Inc: $ 25,000
• Phoenix: $15,000,000
• Piloted Foundation: $25,000
• Poise Foundation: $75,000
• Praxis Inc: $ 200,000
• Prison Yoga: $100,000
• Prison Yoga Project Inc: $25,000
• Project Free 2 Fly: $25,000
• Promise686 Inc: $15,000
• Pursuit Transformation Company Inc: $25,000
• Q Parker Legacy Foundation Llc: $10,000
• Reach Success: $25,000
• Real Men Real Heroes: $15,000
• Rescue International: $2,000,000
• Restoration Immigration Legal Aid: $10,000
• Restore Okc: $25,000
• Reveille Grounds: $25,000
• Rise Colorado: $25,000
• Rise Up For Youth Inc: $ 15,000
• Roca, Inc: $ 100,000
• Safe Families For Children Alliance: $1,300,000
• Safe Passages Dba Advance Peace: $35,000
• Sailfuture Inc: $25,000
• Saprea: $100,000
• Seek Healing: $25,000
• See Statement: $15,000
• See Statement: $ 60,000
• Serve And Connect: $ 135,000
• Serving Our Neighbors Ministries Inc: $25,000
• Shepherds House: $25,000
• Shepherds Way Inc: $15,000
• Skills For Chicagoland's Future: $ 50,000
• Sky's The Limit: $100,000
• Social And Environmental Entrepreneurs See Inc: $25,000
• Sojourners Coffee House Inc: $15,000
• Suazo Business Center: $25,000
• Summer Safe Inc: $50,000
• Team Wethrive Inc: $100,000
• Telos: $100,000
• Telos Group Inc: $ 75,000
• Think Tank Inc: $25,000
• Thread, Inc: $636,000
• Treetops Collective: $25,000
• Uncommon Construction Inc: $ 150,000
• Undivided, Inc: $ 100,000
• Unity Unlimited Inc: $ 300,000
• Unshattered Inc: $25,000
• Urban Specialists Inc: $ 1,945,000
• Urban Tech Academy: $25,000
• Urban Ventures Leadership Foundation: $25,000
• Urban Youth Conservation: $100,000
• Uri Ltzedek: $ 10,000
• Utah Youth Village: $ 25,000
• Valeo Vocation: $ 25,000
• Veterans Alternative, Inc: $ 25,000
• Wichita Children's Home: $ 15,000
• Women's Bean Projec: $100,000
• Youth Advocate Programs: $25,000
• Youth Design Center, Inc: $25,000
• Youth Justice Alliance: $25,000

2021

Grantees:

• 4tucson Inc: $10,000
• Acts Community Development Corporation: $60,000
• Adaptive Training Foundation: $25,000
• Advance Peace: $25,000
• Back On My Feet: $300,000
• Behind Every Door Ministries: $7,000
• Bishop Arts Theatre Center: $15,000
• Black Men Heal: $25,000
• Brink Literacy Project: $25,000
• Cara Program: $550,000
• Confess Project: $25,000
• Dfree Global Foundation Inc: $906,149
• Downtown Boxing Gym Youth Program: $25,000
• Dreamkit Inc: $25,000
• Echo Collective: $15,000
• Education Opens Doors: $90,000
• Family Independence Initiative: $250,000
• Family Promise Inc: $25,000
• First Step Staffing: $13,000
• For The Nations Refugee Outreach: $15,000
• Found In Translation Inc: $25,000
• Friends Of The Children: $925,421
• Fugees Family Inc: $45,000
• Hadanou Collective: $25,000
• Healthcorps: $25,000.
• Helping Abused, Neglected, Disadvantaged Youth: $25,000.
• Houston Responds: $10,000.
• Join Freeworld: $ 25,000.
• Jumpstart South Carolina: $25,000
• Just Community Po Box: $25,000
• Just In Time For Foster Youth: $25,000
• Lawndale Christian Legal Center: $25,000
• Leadership Foundations: $90,000
• Lebron James Family Foundation: $500,000
• Love Has No Limits: $1,000,000
• Mansmann Foundation: $25,000
• Mission Edge: $45,000
• Momentum Advisory Collective: $1,080,000
• Narrative 4, Inc: $751,000
• National Angels: $25,000
• Neighbor To Neighbor: $25,000
• New Mexico Child Advocacy Networks: $25,000
• One America Movement: $275,000
• On The Road Lending: $25,000
• Partners For Justice Inc: $25,000
• Phoenix: $10,008,200
• Prison Fellowship Ministries: $250,000
• Promise Fund Of Florida: $25,000
• Reach University: $25,000
• Realize Impact: $20,000
• Rising Tide Capital: $1,000,000
• Root Cause: $25,000
• Safe Families For Children Alliance: $880,000
• Serve And Connect: $25,000
• Shelters To Shutter: $15,000
• Skills For Chicagoland's Future: $250,000
• Son Of A Saint: $25,000
• Stand Together Trust: $150,000
• Streetwise Partners: $45,000
• Tact Kids Inc: $25,000
• Taking Action For Good: $100,000
• Team Wethrive: $25,000
• Telos Group: $25,000
• Together Chicago: $10,000
• Travis Manion Foundation: $15,000
• Treetops Collective: $45,000
• Undivided, Inc: $25,000
• Urban Specialists Inc: $1,763,500
• Ventures: $25,000
• Weldon Project: $75,000
• Younique Foundation: $25,000
• Youth Business: $25,000
• Youth Entrepreneurs: $250,000

2020

Grantees:

• ACTS Community Development Corporation: $99,250
• Alliance for Choice in Education: $1,200,000
• Arouet Foundation: $30,000
• At the Crossroads: $30,000
• Attack Poverty: $11,087
• Back on My Feet: $1,495,305
• Bearings Bike Shop: $22,000
• Behind Every Door Ministries: $33,100
• Birch Community Services: $65,813
• Blue Monarch: $30,000
• Bonton Enterprises: $284,794
• Bridge House: $72,012
• Bright Futures Atlanta: $44,475
• Brigid's Path: $14,675
• Brilliant Detroit: $130,000
• Cafe Momentum: $1,261,004
• Catholic Charities Diocese of Fort Worth IN: $332,513
• Crysalis Enterprises: $900,600
• Cincinnati Works: $26,010
• City of Refuge: $7,815
• Climb Hire: $30,000
• College Bound Dorchester: $80,228
• Crosspurpose: $173,841
• Defy Ventures: $43,945
• Dfree Global Foundation: $1,186,707
• Elevate USA: $428,552
• Embarc: $78,450
• Epec: $7,560
• Family Independence Initiative: $13,500,000
• Farestart: $42,500
• Fathers Uplift: $30,000
• First Step Staffing: $8,500
• Fostering Hope Foundation: $30,000
• Friends of the Children: $147,310
• Fugees Family: $30,000
• Generation: You Employed: $34,000
• Georgia Justice Project: $51,425
• Georgia Works: $7,000
• Guadalupe Center: $12,095
• Homestretch: $32,995
• Hope House of Colorado: $55,625
• Hope, Inc: $38,536
• Hot Bread Kitchen: $46,900
• Hudson Link for Education in Prison: $563,486
• Humanim: $28,220
• Idignity: $10,585
• Inner City Computer Stars Foundation: $60,000
• Institute for American Values: $30,000
• Kidz2Leaders: $17,675
• Leap to Success: $19,242
• Lone Star Justice Alliance: $30,000
• Mercy Street: $26,005
• Mile High Workshop: $22,475
• Millionair Club: $103,254
• Milwaukee Rescue Mission: $55,295
• Mobile Loaves & Fishes: $196,425
• Momentum Advisory Collective: $600,000
• My Possibilities: $76,656
• Narrative 4: $30,000
• New City Kids: $313,342
• Npower: $26,000
• Old Skool Cafe: $83,035
• On the Road Lending: $36,595
• One Million Degrees: $30,000
• Our House: $72,035
• Outdoor Outreach: $12,699
• Peacelove Foundation: $114,860
• Peppers Ranch: $97,994
• Per Scholas: $34,000
• Positive Tommorrows: $120,000
• PowerMyLearning: $26,550
• Prison Entrepreneurship Program: $100,000
• Prison Fellowship Ministries: $330,110
• Project Lift: $199,093
• Rising Tide Capital: $523,708
• Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors: $15,00
• Rocky Mountain Microfinance Institute: $33,700
• Safe Families for Children Alliance: $2,372,603
• Shelters to Shutter: $78,180
• Skills for Chicagoland's Future: $43,630
• Still She Rises: $30,000
• Streetwise Partners: $36,960
• Strive Foundation: $5,725
• Teen Success: $56,930
• The Anti-Recidivism Coalition: $16,425
• The Arthur Project: $10,000
• The Cara Program: $200,000
• The First 72+: $5,361
• The Last Mile: $548,852
• The One America Movement: $25,000
• The Other Side Academy: $187,861
• The Path Project: $122,083
• The Phoenix: $6,068,035
• The Redemption Project: $31,085
• The Workfaith Connection: $269,962
• Thistle Farms: $85,166
• To the Village Square: $30,000
• Towards Employment: $27,940
• Trade Institute of Pittsburgh: $30,000
• Triangle Residential Options for Substance: $25,710
• Uncommon Construction: $52,230
• Urban Specialist: $2,164,000
• Urban Youth Alliance International: $30,000
• Wellspring Living: $45,901
• Youth and Family Alliance: $30,000
• Youth Guidance: $33,838

2019

Grantees:

• A Second U Foundation: $30,000
• Acts Community Development Corporation: $36,007
• Alliance for Choice in Education: $1,250,000
• Attack Poverty: $24,271
• Back on My Feet: $781,285
• Bearings Bike Shop: $30,000
• Birch Community Services: $130,861
• Bridge House: $88,140
• Bridge Up Hope: The Rachel Covey Foundation: $31,000
• Bright Futures Atlanta: $30,000
• Brigid's Path: $30,000
• Business United in Investing Lending and De: $43,420
• Cafe Momentum: $502,605
• Catholic Charities Diocese' of Fort Worth IN: $600,139
• Chrysalis Enterprises: $1,225,055
• Cincinnati Works: $30,000
• Coalfield Development Corporation: $100,800
• College Bound Dorchester: $91,456
• Crosspurpose: $228,860
• DC Central Kitchen: $195,000
• Defy Ventures: $30,000
• Dfree Global Foundation: $1,175,005
• Dream Corps: $50,000
• DV8 Kitchen Vocational Training Foundation: $30,000
• Education Opens Doors: $317,410
• Elevate USA: $1,222,601
• Embarc: $30,000
• Emerge Fellowship: $30,000
• Envision Foundation: $30,000
• Epec: $30,000
• Every Woman Works: $30,000
• Exalt Youth: $30,000
• Face It Together: $500,055
• Families Empowered: $17,050
• Family Independence Initiative: $1,500,005
• First Step Staffing: $30,000
• Four Bands Community Fund: $30,000
• Fresh Lifelines for Youth: $31,000
• Friends of the Children: $875,100
• Genesys Works: $30,000
• Georgia Justice Project: $30,000
• Getting Out and Staying Out: $16,830
• Give an Hour: $30,050
• Guadalupe Center: $30,000
• Headstrong Project: $134,356
• Hope Inc.: $30,000
• Humanim: $30,000
• Hustle PHX: $31,000
• Ifoster: $31,000
• Illumination Foundation: $31,000
• Inner City Computer Stars Foundation: $50,000
• Jeremiah Program: $830,534
• Juma Ventures: $31,000
• Kidz2leaders: $30,000
• Leap to Success: $107,112
• Lift Inc.: $30,000
• Mile High Workshop: $31,000
• Millionair Club: $168,572
• Mobile Loaves & Fishes: $621,425
• Murphy-Harpst Children's Centers: $30,000
• My Possibilities: $30,000
• New City Kids: $325,781
• Npower: $628,760
• Old Skool Cafe: $100,968
• Orion Industries: $30,000
• Our House: $185,535
• Outdoor Outreach: $219,609
• Peacelove Foundation: $30,000
• Peppers Ranch: $470,572
• Per Scholas: $931,287
• Phoenix Multisport: $3,604,545
• Poetic: $30,000
• Powermylearning: $30,000
• Prison Entrepreneurship Program: $30,000
• Prison Fellowship Ministries: $30,000
• Prison University Project: $31,000
• Project Lift: $268,244
• Recovery Cafe: $31,000
• Reimagine ATL: $51,774
• Rise Up for Youth: $136,984
• Rising Tide Capital: $750,085
• Roots & Rebound: $150,000
• Safe Families for Children Alliance: $949,047
• Shelters to Shutter: $93,297
• Streetwise Partners: $30,000
• Strive Foundation: $70,577
• Teen Success: $78,136
• The Anti-Recidivism Coalition: $31,000
• The Arthur Project: $9,500
• The Artist Outreach: $30,000
• The Cara Program: $710,025
• The First 72+: $30,000
• The Last Mile: $516,605
• The Life of a Single Mom: $30,000
• The Master's Apprentice: $24,145
• The Other Side Academy: $912,628
• The Path Project: $210,232
• The Senior Source: $30,000
• The Workfaith Connection: $506,432
• Thistle Farms: $121,635
• Thread: $500,000
• Towards Employment: $81,146
• Treehouse: $31,000
• Triangle Residential Options for Substance: $5,445
• Urban Specialist: $1,800,119
• Vehicles for Change: $30,000
• Wellspring Living: $30,000
• Wings: $22,720
• Women's Bean Project: $100,205
• Youth Guidance: $1,022,717
• Inner City Computer Stars Foundation: $8,750

2018

Grantees:

• Alliance for Choice in Education: $3,929,040
• Urban Specialist: $2,695,000
• Phoenix Multisport: $2,278,642
• Dfree Global Foundation: $1,200,000
• Friends of the Child: $751,960
• Chrysalis Enterprise: $750,000
• Headstrong Project: $500,770
• Acts Community Development Corporation: $392,400
• Rising Tide Capital: $350,000
• The Cara Program: $300,260
• Coalfield Development Corporation: $250,200
• Youth Entrepreneurs: $250,000
• Project Lift: $130,900
• Back on My Feet: $119,378
• Roots & Rebound: $115,000
• Hudson Link for Education in Prison: $100,900
• Sanders Claus: $100,000
• Women in Need of Generous Support: $91,226
• The Workfaith Connection: $89,430
• Women's Bean Project: $85,200
• Inner City Computer Stars Foundation: $52,830
• Millionair Club: $50,000
• Cafe Momentum: $42,210
• Bridge House: $41,390
• Per Scholas: $41,110
• The Path Project: $31,300
• The Other Side Academy: $31,220
• Face It Together: $31,050
• Jobstrain: $31,000
• Teen Success: $31,000
• Old Skool Cafe: $31,000
• Leap to Success: $31,000
• Hope for Prisoners: $31,000
• Gateway to College National Network: $31,000
• Birch Community Services: $31,000
• Family Independence Initiative: $30,520
• Our House: $30,000
• The Master's Apprentice: $30,000
• Starting Right Now: $30,000
• Georgia Works: $30,000
• City of Refuge: $30,000
• Rise Up for Youth: $30,000
• UTEC: $30,000
• The Arthur Project: $30,000
• Positive Tomorrows: $30,000
• Peppers Ranch: $30,000
• Project Return: $30,000
• Catholic Charities Diocese of Fort Worth: $30,000
• Prounitas: $30,000
• Families Empowered: $30,000
• Youth with Faces: $30,000
• Mobile Loaves & Fishes: $30,000
• Homestretch: $30,000
• The Last Mile: $25,520
• Dallas Foundation: $26,000
• New Pathways for Youth: $25,200
• Akola Project: $25,200
• Behind Every Door Ministries: $25,040
• Thistle Farms: $25,020
• Reality Changers: $25,000
• Inner City Visions: $25,000
• Nevada Empowerment Project: $25,000
• NPower: $25,000
• Triangle Residential Options for Substance: $25,000
• Lawn Life: $25,000
• Towards Employment: $25,000
• Oasis Center: $25,000
• Mercy Street: $25,000
• Dallas Life: $25,000
• The Concillio: $25,000
• Miles of Freedom: $25,000
• Interfaith Family Services: $25,000
• Advocates for Community Transformation: $25,000
• Education Opens Doors: $25,000
• Shelters to Shutter: $25,000
• Cares of Washington: $25,000
• Attack Poverty: $22,700
• Hope House of Colorado: $10,250

2017

Grantees:

• Acts Community Development: $285,000
• Alliance for Choice: $2,142,000
• Woodson Center: $310,000
• Chrysalis Enterprise: $275,000
• Defy Ventures: $316,000
• Dfree Global Foundation: $950,000
• Harvest of Hope: $1,002,000
• Phoenix Multisport: $1,000,000
• Roots & Rebound: $120,000
• Strive Foundation: $10,000
• Urban Specialist: $890,000
• Urban Ventures: $25,000
• Women's Bean Project: $25,000
• Youth Entrepreneurs: $50,000
• Youth Guidance: $25,000
• Elevate USA: $25,000
• Friends of the Children: $25,000
• Getting Out and Staying Out: $25,000
• Headstrong Project: $25,000
• Hope House of Colorado: $25,000
• Hudson Link for Education in Prison: $25,000
• Idignity: $25,000
• Jeremiah Program: $25,000
• Jubilee Foods: $25,000
• Millionair Club: $25,000
• Money Think: $25,000
• New City Kids: $25,000
• Orion Industries: $25,000
• Pearls for Teen Girls: $25,000
• Rising Tide Capital: $25,000
• Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors: $15,000
• Roots & Wings Foundation: $25,000
• Row New York: $25,000
• Sanders Claus: $102,000
• Solutions for Change: $25,000
• Springboard to Opportunities: $25,000
• The Joseph Project: $25,000
• The Workfaith Connection: $25,000
• Thread: $25,000
• Twin Cities Rise: $25,000
• Attack Poverty: $25,000
• Cafe Momentum: $25,000
• City Rescue Mission: $25,000
• Coalfield Development Corp: $25,000
• Crosspurpose: $25,000

2016

Grantees:

• Acts Community Development: $25,000
• Alliance for Choice: $437,500
• Woodson Center: $2,595,000
• Chrysalis Enterprise: $25,000
• Compass Partners: $10,000
• Defy Ventures: $25,000
• Dfree Global Foundation: $600,000
• Harvest of Hope: $300,000
• Milwaukee Rescue Mission: $25,000
• Operation Dream: $25,000
• Phoenix Multisport: $25,000
• Roots & Rebound: $25,000
• Strive Foundation: $25,000
• Cara Program: $25,000
• United Against Poverty: $25,000

Core Financials

2022

• Total Revenue: $26,989,721
• Total Expenses: $60,493,684
• Net Assets: $346,539,465

2021

• Total Revenue: $140,091,131
• Total Expenses: $35,383,760
• Net Assets: $352,415,520

2020

• Total Revenue: $260,533,997
• Total Expenses: $48,081,511
• Net Assets: $242,371,408

2019

• Total Revenue: $54,934,725
• Total Expenses: $45,265,938
• Net Assets: $29,902,213

2018

• Total Revenue: $37,243,786
• Total Expenses: $28,513,042
• Net Assets: $19,982,436

2017

• Total Revenue: $21,229,459
• Total Expenses: $15,507,543
• Net Assets: $10,621,370

2016

• Total Revenue: $11,722,224
• Total Expenses: $7,203,539
• Net Assets: $4,935,544

Personnel

Staff as of of December 2022:

• Evan Feinberg, Executive Director
• Sara Peters, VP of Impact and Evaluation
• Askia B. Ahmad, Managing Director
• Ana M Rector, Philanthropy and Social Impact
• Elgin Cato, Project Coordinator
• William Dowling, Director of Product
• Andrew Vanderput, Partnership Development Manager
• Tsenu Tamrat, Project Manager
• Brenna Gaffigan, Program Coordinator
• Will Dowell, Managing Director
• Skylar Burris, Content Coordinator
• Catherine Hedrick Gruetzmacher, Investment Operations Manager
• Terence M. Mathis, Investment Manager
• Molly Ringel, Senior Communications Strategist
• Joana Serpa, Project Officer
• Andrew Kristofik, Director Of Business Development
• Krystin Thorson Roehl, MPP, Associate Research Manager
• Menen Ghizaw, Research Associate
• Elizabeth Archer, Research Associate
• Richard Anderson, Vice President
• Nate Mandel, Director of Customer Measurement
• Lexi R, Programs Officer
• Kat Cheshire, Manager
• Nick England, Catalyst Success Manager
• Katrina Hill, Programs Officer
• Giovanna da Silva, Catalyst Success and Operations Manager
• Holly Noles, Catalyst Success Manager
• Kayla da Silva, Programs Manger
• Moriah Williams, Research Associate
• Lindsey Pelland, Catalyst Success Manager
• Brianna Luckey, Senior Operations Coordinator
• Grant Mankin, Deputy Director, Success Management
• Ethan D., Managing Director Of Operations
• Amber Fogarty, MBA, MA, Director of Learning
• Joe Woodward, Director, Wichita Operations
• Nathan Anderson, Executive Vice President,
• Alexandra Elizabeth King, Catalyst Success Manager
• Diana Carolina Flecher, Events Coordinator
• Monique Spain, Project Manager and Executive Assistant
• Katie Ross, Customer Feedback Coach
• Emily Wilcox, Catalyst Success Manager
• Madeline Manlove, Catalyst Success Manager
• Mollie Dougherty, Program Officer
• Cassie Wood, SHRM-SCP, Human Resources Business Partner
• Shaun Alexander, Ambassador
• Anna Scott, Senior Partnerships Lead
• Tyler Carolan, Manager Customer Measurement
• Anna Dorsey Keeling, Manager, Operations
• Lisa Hawkins, Senior Manager of Investment Strategy
• Meagan Stroud, CMP, Events Manager
• Ivette Diaz, Program Officer
• Elizabeth Minoski, Human Resources Leader
• Irene A. Smith, Program Manager, Content Development & Evaluations
• Alissa Stover, Data Scientist
• Daniel Espinoza, Catalyst Success Coordinator
• Dan Ryan, Catalyst Success Manager
• Joseph Mienko, Senior Data Scientist
• Eric Kuto, Senior Software Engineer
• Mallon Graham, Sr. Project Manager
• Brian Menkes, Officer
• Allison Wolf, Information Technology Sr Operations Analyst
• Susan Motiff, Vice Presdient of Intelligence
• Logan Moore, Investment Manager
• Hugh Cherry, Managing Director

Former Staff

• Dean Jargo, Director
• Buster Soaries, Director
• Dale Gibbens, Director
• Tomislav "Tommy" Fijacko, Investment Manager
• Laura Defrancesco Ross, VP of Programs and Operations
• Anna Mills, Project Manager
• Laura Whitefield, Project Manager
• Tommy Fijacko, Engagement Manager, Organization Development
• Lauren McCann, Executive Vice President
• Noel Augustine, Catalyst Marketing Manager, Marketing and Communications
• Mollie Dougherty, Engagement Manager, Organization Development
• Erica Haines, Program Manager, Catalyst Program
• Abby Helms, Coordinator, Stakeholder Relations
• Stacey Jones, Engagement Manager, Organization Development
• Andrew Kristofik, Project Manager
• Erika Loomer, Events Manager
• Jocelyn Lybrand, Stakeholder Relations
• Kelly McDonough, Engagement Specialist, Organization Development
• Arif Nassery, Office Assistant
• Wilson Paine, Director, Strategic Partnerships
• Parita Patel, Social Investment Officer
• Rachel Reese, Research Analyst
• Anna Rivers, Director, Strategic Partnerships
• Alexa Satterlee, Program Assistant, Catalyst Program
• Irene Smith, Program Manager, Catalyst Program Content
• Kyle Smith, Senior Project Manager, Organization Development
• Alexandra Graham, Manager, Stakeholder Relations
• Rebecca Stewart, Program Assistant, Marketing & Communications
• Lisa Vogt, Executive Assistant

Board of Directors

As of December 2022:

• Brian Hooks, Chairman
• Evan Feinberg, Executive Director
• Antong Lucky
• Dale Gibbons
• Buster Soaries
• Katey Roberts
• Brian Menkes, Secretary
• Kara Hartnett, Treasurer

Former Directors

• Dean Jargo
• Kristy Kendall
• Richard Fink
• Marc Short

Contact Information

Stand Together Foundation
1320 N. Courthouse Road
Arlington, VA 22201
Phone: (703) 875-1010
Email: nick.brown@standtogetherfoundation.org
Website: https://standtogetherfoundation.org
Instagram: @standtogetherfoundation
Facebook: Stand Together Foundation
Twitter: @_STFoundation
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