The Craig and Karen Stull Family Foundation focuses on direct support for youth mentorship, resilience-building programs, and services for neurodiverse children, with a mix of local/regional and national partners. Their grants skew toward program-focused charities that use mentoring, therapeutic experiences (including equine therapy), and kindness/anti-bullying efforts to support underserved young people. The foundation makes relatively large gifts and shows a pattern of repeat support to organizations they prioritize.
Concentrated giving with a small number of large grants (several $100k+ awards), repeat funding to key grantees, and emphasis on program support for youth-focused organizations rather than many small donations.
The Craig and Karen Stull Family Foundation shows a clear preference for large, flexible grants to youth-serving organizations, with several repeat awards across multiple years. One of the most striking recent gifts is $451,200 to Don't Ever Give Up Inc for general support, alongside another $175,000 grant to Mentor in 2025. Those awards sit within a broader pattern of backing organizations that work on mentorship, resilience, and support for children and teens, especially programs tied to social-emotional development, kindness education, and therapeutic experiences. The foundation’s recent record also includes support for organizations serving neurodiverse children and autism-related services, indicating that its giving is not limited to one program model. Across the recent grants list, the foundation repeatedly funds the same organizations rather than rotating widely among one-time recipients. Mentor appears multiple times, as do The Be Kind People Project, Barry Goldwater Institute for Public Policy, Taking the Reins, and Project Orbis International. That repetition points to an ongoing relationship style in which general support is used to sustain organizations over time. The foundation’s grants are often substantial enough to function as core funding rather than small project-only awards.
Youth mentorship is a central theme in the foundation’s giving. It awarded $175,000 to Mentor for general support in 2025, following earlier grants of $100,000 in 2023 and 2024 and additional $20,000 awards in 2024. The foundation also backs resilience and life-skills work for children. In 2025, it gave $451,200 to Don't Ever Give Up Inc for general support, and it previously supported Transformations by Austin Angels with $100,000 in 2025. A third area is social-emotional learning and kindness education. The Be Kind People Project received $100,000 in 2024 after a $52,500 grant in 2023. Its grantmaking also includes autism and therapeutic recreation. Southwest Autism Research & Resource Center received $100,000 in 2023, while Taking the Reins received $100,000 in 2024 and $50,000 in 2025.
Typical grant sizes cluster in the five-figure to low-six-figure range, with p25 at $23,750, median at $51,250, and p75 at $100,000. The recent record shows both large anchor grants and smaller follow-on awards, including repeated support to the same organizations over multiple years. That pattern suggests an ongoing funding relationship rather than one-off gifts. The foundation is structured as a family foundation, and its grants are consistently described as general support, core operating support, or flexible-use funding, indicating preference for unrestricted or broadly usable awards.
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Most grants fall between $24K and $100K, with a median of $51K.
25th Percentile
$24K
Median
$51K
75th Percentile
$100K
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Notable grantees: DON'T EVER GIVE UP INC, MENTOR, SOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH & RESOURCE CENTER, TAKING THE REINS, THE BE KIND PEOPLE PROJECT
Giving is national, but Arizona receives the largest share of grants by count, with 40% going to recipients in the state. Recent awards also landed in New York City, Los Angeles, Austin, Cary, and Scottsdale. The recipient-country distribution is entirely U.S.-based, with 20 grants in the United States and no non-U.S. recipients in the recent list. The pattern mixes Arizona organizations such as Phoenix and Scottsdale with out-of-state grantees in North Carolina, New York, California, and Texas.
The foundation supports youth mentorship organizations, resilience-building and life-skills programs, autism-related services, therapeutic equine programs, and kindness or anti-bullying education. Recent grants include support for mentoring infrastructure, general operating support for children’s programs, and services for neurodiverse youth.
Its grant sizes are relatively substantial: p25 is $23,750, the median is $51,250, and p75 is $100,000. The recent list also includes a larger outlier at $451,200, showing that some awards are much larger than the median.
Yes. Several organizations appear more than once in the recent grants list. Mentor received awards in 2023, 2024, and 2025; The Be Kind People Project appears in 2023 and 2024; Barry Goldwater Institute for Public Policy appears in 2023, 2024, and 2025; and Taking the Reins appears in 2024 and 2025.
Arizona is the top state by grant count, with 40% of grants going to recipients in the state. Recent Arizona recipients include organizations in Phoenix and Scottsdale, while the foundation also funds groups in New York, California, Texas, and North Carolina.
The grants are commonly labeled general support, and the foundation’s philosophy tags point to unrestricted, core operating, and flexible-use funding. That suggests it often gives money that recipients can apply across ongoing organizational needs rather than only to a single project.
2026
Source: IRS Form 990-PF, fiscal year 2026.
Most recent grants reported to the IRS.
| Recipient | Location | Amount | Year | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| THE BEE KIND PEOPLE PROJECT | PHOENIX, AZ | $100,000 | 2026 | GENERAL SUPPORT |
| HONOR HEALTH FOUNDATION | SCOTTSDALE, AZ | $100,000 | 2026 | GENERAL SUPPORT |
| V FOUNDATION | CARY, NC | $100,000 | 2026 | GENERAL SUPPORT |
| CELEBRITY ADVENTURES INC | CHICAGO, IL | $100,000 | 2026 | GENERAL SUPPORT |
| V FOUNDATION | CARY, NC | $54,500 | 2026 | GENERAL SUPPORT |
| ARIZONA MUSICFEST | SCOTTSDALE, AZ | $50,000 | 2026 | GENERAL SUPPORT |
| TAKING THE REINS | LOS ANGELES, CA | $50,000 | 2026 | GENERAL SUPPORT |
| THE AMERICAN LIVER FOUNDATION | WEST ORANGE, NJ | $50,000 | 2026 | GENERAL SUPPORT |
| THE SOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH & RESOURCE CENTER | PHOENIX, AZ | $25,000 | 2026 | GENERAL SUPPORT |
| ORBIS INTERNATIONAL | NEW YORK, NY | $25,000 | 2026 | GENERAL SUPPORT |
| GATEWAY FOR CANCER RESEARCH | CHICAGO, IL | $25,000 | 2026 | GENERAL SUPPORT |
| BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY | PHOENIX, AZ | $25,000 | 2026 | GENERAL SUPPORT |
| THE BEE KIND PEOPLE PROJECT | PHOENIX, AZ | $9,000 | 2026 | GENERAL SUPPORT |
| DON'T EVER GIVE UP INC | CARY, NC | $451,200 | 2025 | GENERAL SUPPORT |
| MENTOR | NEW YORK, NY | $175,000 | 2025 | GENERAL SUPPORT |
| DON'T EVER GIVE UP INC | CARY, NC | $100,000 | 2025 | GENERAL SUPPORT |
| TRANSFORMATIONS BY AUSTIN ANGELS | AUSTIN, TX | $100,000 | 2025 | GENERAL SUPPORT |
| TAKING THE REINS | LOS ANGELES, CA | $50,000 | 2025 | GENERAL SUPPORT |
| BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY | PHOENIX, AZ | $50,000 | 2025 | GENERAL SUPPORT |
| ARIZONA MUSICFEST | SCOTTSDALE, AZ | $50,000 | 2025 | GENERAL SUPPORT |
| THE BE KIND PEOPLE PROJECT | PHOENIX, AZ | $100,000 | 2024 | GENERAL SUPPORT |
| TAKING THE REINS | LOS ANGELES, CA | $100,000 | 2024 | GENERAL SUPPORT |
| MENTOR | NEW YORK, NY | $100,000 | 2024 | GENERAL SUPPORT |
| BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY | PHOENIX, AZ | $50,000 | 2024 | GENERAL SUPPORT |
| MENTOR | NEW YORK, NY | $20,000 | 2024 | GENERAL SUPPORT |
| MENTOR | NEW YORK, NY | $20,000 | 2024 | GENERAL SUPPORT |
| PROJECT ORBIS INTERNATIONAL | NEW YORK, NY | $5,227 | 2024 | GENERAL SUPPORT |
| BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY | PHOENIX, AZ | $4,200 | 2024 | GENERAL SUPPORT |
| SOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH & RESOURCE CENTER | PHOENIX, AZ | $200,000 | 2023 | GENERAL SUPPORT |
| SOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH & RESOURCE CENTER | PHOENIX, AZ | $100,000 | 2023 | GENERAL SUPPORT |
| MENTOR | NEW YORK, NY | $100,000 | 2023 | GENERAL SUPPORT |
| MENTOR | NEW YORK, NY | $100,000 | 2023 | GENERAL SUPPORT |
| THE BE KIND PEOPLE PROJECT | PHOENIX, AZ | $52,500 | 2023 | GENERAL SUPPORT |
| THE BE KIND PEOPLE PROJECT | PHOENIX, AZ | $52,500 | 2023 | GENERAL SUPPORT |
| BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY | PHOENIX, AZ | $25,000 | 2023 | GENERAL SUPPORT |
| BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY | PHOENIX, AZ | $25,000 | 2023 | GENERAL SUPPORT |
| PROJECT ORBIS INTERNATIONAL | NEW YORK, NY | $5,227 | 2023 | GENERAL SUPPORT |
| PROJECT ORBIS INTERNATIONAL | NEW YORK, NY | $5,227 | 2023 | GENERAL SUPPORT |
THE BEE KIND PEOPLE PROJECT
$100,000GENERAL SUPPORT
CELEBRITY ADVENTURES INC
$100,000GENERAL SUPPORT
GENERAL SUPPORT
BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY
$25,000GENERAL SUPPORT
THE BEE KIND PEOPLE PROJECT
$9,000GENERAL SUPPORT
MENTOR
$175,000GENERAL SUPPORT
TRANSFORMATIONS BY AUSTIN ANGELS
$100,000GENERAL SUPPORT
BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY
$50,000GENERAL SUPPORT
THE BE KIND PEOPLE PROJECT
$100,000GENERAL SUPPORT
MENTOR
$100,000GENERAL SUPPORT
MENTOR
$20,000GENERAL SUPPORT
MENTOR
$20,000GENERAL SUPPORT
MENTOR
$100,000GENERAL SUPPORT
MENTOR
$100,000GENERAL SUPPORT
THE BE KIND PEOPLE PROJECT
$52,500GENERAL SUPPORT
BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY
$25,000GENERAL SUPPORT
BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY
$25,000GENERAL SUPPORT