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Dante S Stephensen Foundation

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.

$130k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0189% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20232025.

Arts & Culture$120kAnimals$75kHuman Services$75kEducation$30kFood & Nutrition$30kPublic Benefit$30kHealth$15kYouth Development$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $80k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOVING IN THE SPIRIT IN HONOR$10,000
CHEETAH CONSERVATION FUND$10,000
NORTH CAROLINA TRANSPORTATION MUSEU$10,000
SEAL MUSEUM$10,000
ATLANTA MISSION$10,000
AMERICA SCORES$10,000
ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$10,000
ATLANTA HUMANE SOCIETY$10,000
EMPTY STOCKING FUND$5,000
HIGH MUSEUMWOODRUFF ARTS CTR$5,000
ATLANTA BALLET$5,000
GILEE$5,000
BRING ME A BOOK FRANKLIN$5,000
SHEPHERD CENTER$5,000
SOUTHEASTERN RAILWAY MUESEUM$5,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ATLANTA MISSION: $10k → 13%ATLANTA MISSION: $10k → 13%ATLANTA MISSION: $10k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 60% of Dante S Stephensen Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 9% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Dante S Stephensen Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$405k · 19 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +11% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
1

Total granted

$405k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
0%

Still filing today

58%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
AnimalsArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • AU
    ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +11%
  • Cheetah Conservation Fund
    3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +20%
  • AC
    ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • TF
    The Fishing Academy Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
South Carolina Aquarium

Our mission is to inspire conservation of the natural world by exhibiting and caring for animals, by excelling in education and research, and by providing an exceptional visitor experience.

Animals
2
The South Fork Conservancy Incorporated

The mission of the South Fork Conservancy is to restore and preserve habitat along the tributaries of Peachtree Creek. We give the community access to these healthy, restored greenspaces by designing, building and maintaining nature trails.

Environment
3
Amazon Conservation Association

Amazon conservation unites science, people, and innovation to protect the amazon - the greatest wild forest on earth. as guardians of the most iconic forest on the planet, we bring together the power of the latest science and technology…

Environment
4
Amazement Square

The museum's mission is dedicated to motivating children and adults of all backgrounds and abilities toward greater creativity and understanding of themselves and the world through hands-on learning.

Arts & Culture
5
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
6
Atlanta Fire Rescue Foundation

To elevate and support atlanta's growing fire and emergency response ecosystem by providing the funding, resources, and development necessary to enhance the personal and professional lives of atlanta firefighters.

7
Acfb Support Organization Inc

Acfb support organization, inc., is operated exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes and/or activities of atlanta community food bank, inc., a georgia nonprofit corporation.

Food & Nutrition
8
Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Inc

The corporation is a voluntary association of individuals and organizations the purposes of which are to upgrade and advance the atlanta metropolitan area in population, commerce and finance; to effect civic and social improvements; to…

9
Dunwoody Nature Center Inc

Inspires the love of nature and cultivates environmental understanding and stewardship by: (1)Conserving and enhancing Dunwoody Park (2)Educating children, families and adults of all ages about the natural world and our place in…

Environment
10
Alaska Whale Foundation

Alaska Whale Foundation is dedicated to marine mammal conservation through research monitoring and education.

Environment
11
Georgia Aquarium Foundation Inc

To be the fundraising arm for the georgia aquarium, inc., to hold financial and other investments for the benefit of the georgia aquarium, inc., and to make distributions/grants/loans to and for the benefit of the georgia aquarium, inc.…

Animals
12
Acfb Charitable Investments Inc

Acfb charitable investments, inc., is operated exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes and/or activities of atlanta community food bank, inc., a georgia nonprofit corporation.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Owens Foundation for Wildlife Conservation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 20 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NORTH CAROLINA TRANSPORTATION MUSEU — $30,000 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA TRANSPORTATION MUSEUSEAL MUSEUM — $30,000 · OtherSEAL MUSEUMAMERICA SCORES — $30,000 · OtherAMERICA SCORESMOVING IN THE SPIRIT IN HONOR — $30,000 · OtherMOVING IN THE SPIRIT IN HONORGILEE — $15,000 · OtherGILEEEmpty Stocking Fund Inc — $15,000 · OtherEmpty Stocking Fund IncHIGH MUSEUMWOODRUFF ARTS CTR — $15,000 · OtherHIGH MUSEUMWOODRUFF ARTS CTRIndividual grant recipient — $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCheetah Conservation Fund — $30,000 · AnimalsCheetah Conservation…Atlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc — $30,000 · AnimalsAtlanta Humane Socie…Owens Foundation for Wildlife Conservation — $15,000 · AnimalsOwens Foundation for…Southeastern Railway Museum Inc — $15,000 · Arts & CultureSoutheastern…ATLANTA BALLET INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureATLANTA BALL…Fernbank Inc — $15,000 · Arts & CultureFernbank IncATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION — $30,000 · Human ServicesATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC — $30,000 · Food & NutritionARBOR MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC — $15,000 · EducationBRING ME A BOOK FORGOTTEN COAST INC — $15,000 · EducationSHEPHERD CENTER INC — $15,000 · HealthThe Fishing Academy Inc — $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$180,000Animals$75,000Arts & Culture$45,000Human Services$30,000Food & Nutrition$30,000Education$30,000Health$15,000Youth Development$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCheetah Conservation Fund — $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAtlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSoutheastern Railway Museum Inc — $15,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSHEPHERD CENTER INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetARBOR MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEmpty Stocking Fund Inc — $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetATLANTA BALLET INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFernbank Inc — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRING ME A BOOK FORGOTTEN COAST INC — $15,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetThe Fishing Academy Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Dante S Stephensen Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 14%
  • The Fishing Academy Inc14% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY2025

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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