· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 60% of Dante S Stephensen Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 9% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 0%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AUATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +11%
Cheetah Conservation Fund3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +20%- ACATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- TFThe Fishing Academy Incone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
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.
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.
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…
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…
Alaska Whale Foundation is dedicated to marine mammal conservation through research monitoring and education.
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.…
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.
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Cheetah Conservation Fund ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Atlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Railway Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds Owens Foundation for Wildlife Conservation ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ARBOR MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Empty Stocking Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds Fernbank Inc ↗
- Who funds BRING ME A BOOK FORGOTTEN COAST INC ↗
- Who funds The Fishing Academy Inc ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dante S Stephensen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dante S Stephensen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Fishing Academy Inc: 14% of income from government
How this is measured
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