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Bruce and Mary Stevenson Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$197k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2025
34
Organizations funded FY2024
12%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$8,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$80,000
Organizations funded a year
34 to 45
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$2.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Bruce and Mary Stevenson Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsFood & NutritionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving6$147k0%
FY202434$605k12%
FY202336$580k39%
FY202241$546k46%
FY202145$540k42%
FY202044$506kn/a
87% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$1.7MArts & Culture$645kHealth$205kHuman Services$151kPhilanthropy$105kFood & Nutrition$66kCrime & Legal$61kAnimals$49kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
WA
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
CA
MD
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 39 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 61 recipients with no EIN on record ($733k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Bruce and Mary Stevenson Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 38 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBillings Middle School: $943,200 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetMaryhill Museum of Art: $460,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetPrager University Foundation: $100,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSkyline Foundation: $87,500 over 6y, 12% of budgetWhite Salmon Valley Education Foundation: $62,250 over 3y, 21% of budgetEdison High School: $54,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFriendly House Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation: $43,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWarrior Canine Connection Inc: $41,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPerforming Arts Initiative: $40,000 over 4y, 34% of budgetHood River County Library Fdtn: $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTake the Lead Inc: $24,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetThe Next Door Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of the Columbia Gorge: $20,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetFish: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWoodland Park Zoological Society: $16,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Oregon Zoo Foundation: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHorizon Christian School: $12,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBallard Food Bank: $11,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMaris Place: $11,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetDance Fremont: $10,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetFort Vancouver Regional Library Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWashington Gorge Action Programs: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUnited Help Ukraine Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHood River Senior Citizens Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwest Harvest Emm: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLiteracy Source a Community Learning Center: $7,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLifeworks Nw: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOregon Humane Society: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Seattle Aquarium Society: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIslandwood: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetColumbia Arts: $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetStonehouse Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 46% of budgetRoxbury Stone House Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPortland Baroque Orchestra: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFreedom From Religion Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColumbia Land Trust: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 38.

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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.

Stevenson Campbell FoundationWA22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Stevenson Campbell Foundation · Greenfish Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Swigert Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · Juan Young Trust · The Autzen Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Gorge Community Foundation · The Firstenburg 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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How do I get to Bruce and Mary Stevenson Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Bruce and Mary Stevenson Foundation Inc 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.

About Bruce and Mary Stevenson Foundation Inc

How much does Bruce and Mary Stevenson Foundation Inc give?
Bruce and Mary Stevenson Foundation Inc reported 8 grants totaling $197,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 45 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Bruce and Mary Stevenson Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (51%), Arts & Culture (20%), Health (6%).
Who are Bruce and Mary Stevenson Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Billings Middle School ($943k), Maryhill Museum of Art ($460k), Prager University Foundation ($100k).
Does Bruce and Mary Stevenson Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bruce and Mary Stevenson Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bruce and Mary Stevenson Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Stevenson Campbell Foundation, Greenfish Foundation, The Oregon Community Foundation.
Where is Bruce and Mary Stevenson Foundation Inc based?
Bruce and Mary Stevenson Foundation Inc is based in WA.

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 102 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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