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Abbot & Dorothy H Stevens Foundation at a glance

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Abbot & Dorothy H Stevens Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.5M
Granted FY2023
61
Grants FY2023
5
States reached
$93k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$1.3MYouth Development$576kHuman Services$313kRecreation & Sports$281kHealth$281kArts & Culture$176kHousing & Shelter$173kEnvironment$152kOther$0
02FY2023 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 61 grants below total $1,236,100, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,504,200 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $268,100 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k23 grants · $79k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $512k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $645k
$12,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Family Services of the Merrimack Valley$92,500
Lawrence General Hospital$75,000
Boston Educational Devel Foundation$75,000
Youth Development Organization$70,000
ECCF Lawrence Public Schools Receivership$70,000
Squashbusters$62,500
Notre Dame Cristo Rey High School$50,000
ECCF Summer in Greater Lawrence$50,000
Lawrence Community Works$50,000
Greater Lawrence Community Boating$50,000
Lawrence History Center$40,000
Institute for Non-Profit Practice$35,000
Junior Achievement of Greater Boston$35,000
Merrimack River Watershed Council$30,000
Elevated Thought Foundation$30,000
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 50 repeat orgs$771k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

50 repeat relationships: 42 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
29

Total granted

$2.8M
$617k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+14%

Still filing today

56%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $154k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • YOUTH DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $206k · revenue +59%
  • Lawrence General Hospital
    3× · 2021–2023 · $175k · revenue +16%
  • ELEVATED THOUGHT INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $135k · revenue +123%

Funded once

  • EL
    ECCF Lawrence Public Schls Receivership
    one grant, 2021 · $70k
  • NP
    New Profiling/Playworks Education
    one grant, 2021 · $65k
  • NP
    New Profiling/Teach for America
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…

Education
3
New England Lawboston

New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…

Education
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
Emmanuel College

Emmanuel college is a coed, residential catholic liberal arts and sciences college with 2,112 undergraduate and graduate students.

Education
6
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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7
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
8
Dean College

Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…

Education
9
Laboure College of Healthcare Inc

Laboure college provides high-quality education and prepares women and men for careers in nursing and allied health fields.

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10
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
11
New England Museum Association

New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.

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12
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Childrens Museum; the most unlike its peers is Immigrant City Archives. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 90 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/49
Grantees still filing
34/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ECCF Summer in Greater Lawrence: $180,000 · OtherECCF Summer in Greater LawrenceBoston Educational Devel Foundation: $150,000 · OtherBoston Educational Devel FoundationLAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC: $100,000 · OtherLAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INCNorthern Essex Community College: $100,000 · OtherNorthern Essex Community CollegeGreater Lawrence Community Boating: $100,000 · OtherGreater Lawrence Community BoatingBoys & Girls Club of Gr Lowell: $87,500 · OtherPhillips Academy - ABL: $75,000 · OtherECCF Lawrence Public Schools Receivership: $70,000 · OtherECCF Lawrence Public Schls Receivership: $70,000 · OtherBoys & Girls Club of Lawrence: $70,000 · OtherNew Profiling/Playworks Education: $65,000 · OtherESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 · Other+41 more: $707,150 · Other+41 moreNOTRE DAME CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL INC: $175,000 · EducationNOTRE DAME CRISTO…ELEVATED THOUGHT INC: $135,000 · EducationELEVATED THOUGHT …Immigrant City Archives: $80,000 · EducationImmigrant City Ar…CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $67,000 · EducationCATHOLIC SCHOOLS …BOSTON SCHOOLS FUND: $50,000 · EducationBOSTON SCHOOLS FU…REACH OUT AND READ INC: $20,000 · Education+4 more: $53,000 · Education+4 moreFAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY INC: $152,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY SER…INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC: $105,000 · Human ServicesINSTITUTE …RUTHS HOUSE INC: $27,500 · Human ServicesRUTHS HOUS…MASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $22,500 · Human ServicesMASSACHUSE…JEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER INC: $12,000 · Human Services+3 more: $26,000 · Human Services+3 moreYOUTH DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION INC: $205,500 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH DEVE…SQUASHBUSTERS INC: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentSQUASHBUST…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC: $17,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIR…+1 more: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentLawrence General Hospital: $175,000 · HealthGREATER LAWRENCE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC: $50,000 · HealthLOWELL COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $45,000 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthMERRIMACK RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC: $80,000 · EnvironmentHURRICANE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $50,000 · EnvironmentAppalachian Mountain Club: $25,000 · EnvironmentMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentLAKE SUNAPEE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $6,500 · Environment+1 more: $250 · EnvironmentTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $38,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE ESPRESSO INCORPORATED: $30,000 · Arts & CultureNorth Andover Historical Society: $25,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $7,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,864,650Education$580,000Human Services$345,500Youth Development$328,000Health$270,500Environment$181,750Arts & Culture$103,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYOUTH DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION INC: $205,500 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetLawrence General Hospital: $175,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNOTRE DAME CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL INC: $175,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY INC: $152,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetELEVATED THOUGHT INC: $135,000 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC: $105,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetLAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSQUASHBUSTERS INC: $100,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetImmigrant City Archives: $80,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetMERRIMACK RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC: $80,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $67,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHURRICANE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBOSTON SCHOOLS FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetGREATER LAWRENCE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOWELL COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $38,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $35,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHEATRE ESPRESSO INCORPORATED: $30,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetStraight Ahead Ministries INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetRUTHS HOUSE INC: $27,500 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetNorth Andover Historical Society: $25,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetBREAD & ROSES HOUSING INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetESSEX COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $22,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC: $17,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLATINO STEM ALLIANCE: $15,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetREGIS COLLEGE: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBowdoin College: $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPARTNERS IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNahant Preservation Trust Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTABOR ACADEMY: $9,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE SUNAPEE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $6,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOWELL TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEssex Art Center Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHATHAM CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PIKE SCHOOL INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds YOUTH DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Lawrence General Hospital ↗
  • Who funds NOTRE DAME CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds ELEVATED THOUGHT INC ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds SQUASHBUSTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Immigrant City Archives ↗
  • Who funds MERRIMACK RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HURRICANE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON SCHOOLS FUND ↗
  • Who funds GREATER LAWRENCE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds LOWELL COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds THEATRE ESPRESSO INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds Straight Ahead Ministries INC ↗
  • Who funds RUTHS HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds North Andover Historical Society ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Essex County Communit…Rogers Family Foundat…Cummings Foundation G…Boston Foundation IncNathaniel & Elizabeth…Josephine G Russell T…United Way Of Massach…Artemas W Stearns Tru…Salem Five Charitable…Edward S & Winifred G…The Saab Family Found…
Eastern Bank FoundationMA47× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Rogers Family Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc · Nathaniel & Elizabeth P Stevens Foundation · Josephine G Russell Trust · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Artemas W Stearns Trust · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Edward S & Winifred G Moseley Foundation · The Saab Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
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Find your warmest path to Abbot & Dorothy H Stevens Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 90 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $1.5M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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