California · Private foundation
Cecile Stephens Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $63k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 59
- Grants FY2024
- 56
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 89%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $5,336
- Organizations funded a year
- 50 to 92
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $6k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 89% of the organizations Cecile Stephens Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 77% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 59 | $63k | 85% |
| FY2023 | 56 | $54k | 89% |
| FY2022 | 50 | $61k | 86% |
| FY2021 | 71 | $72k | 89% |
| FY2020 | 57 | $66k | 82% |
| FY2019 | 92 | $97k | 91% |
| FY2018 | 64 | $76k | 88% |
| FY2017 | 66 | $79k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grace Opens Doors Charitable Foundation | $22,500 | 6 | 24% |
| Vocal Music Parents Association of Fountain Valley High School | $22,304 | 3 | 3% |
| Beyond Blindness | $20,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Interval House | $20,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Covenant House | $16,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Precious Lamb Preschool Inc | $12,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Miraculous Love Kids | $4,600 | 2 | 4% |
| Los Alamitos Youth Center | $3,400 | 1 | 0% |
| Women Who Weld | $3,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Spread Aloha to the World | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grace Opens Doors Charitable Foundation | $22,500 | 6 | 24% |
| Vocal Music Parents Association of Fountain Valley High School | $22,304 | 3 | 3% |
| Beyond Blindness | $20,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Interval House | $20,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Covenant House | $16,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Precious Lamb Preschool Inc | $12,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Miraculous Love Kids | $4,600 | 2 | 4% |
| Los Alamitos Youth Center | $3,400 | 1 | 0% |
| Women Who Weld | $3,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Spread Aloha to the World | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Robynes Nest | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Naval Postgraduate School Foundation Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Assistance League of Fullerton | $2,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Cox Elementary School PTA | $2,000 | 1 | 3% |
| North Park Little League Baseball Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Project Zawadi Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Camp Impact | $200 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 442 recipients with no EIN on record ($430k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cecile Stephens Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation · Network for Good · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Cecile Stephens Charitable Foundation
- How much does Cecile Stephens Charitable Foundation give?
- Cecile Stephens Charitable Foundation reported 59 grants totaling $62,836 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 50 and 92 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Cecile Stephens Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (64%), Human Services (8%), Arts & Culture (6%).
- Who are Cecile Stephens Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Grace Opens Doors Charitable Foundation ($23k), Vocal Music Parents Association of Fountain Valley High School ($22k), Beyond Blindness ($20k).
- Does Cecile Stephens Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 89% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cecile Stephens Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Cecile Stephens Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Orange County Community Foundation, O L Halsell Foundation, Network for Good.
- Where is Cecile Stephens Charitable Foundation based?
- Cecile Stephens Charitable Foundation is based in CA.
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