How much does Jess L and Miriam B Stevens Foundation give?

Jess L and Miriam B Stevens Foundation reported 44 grants totaling $1,058,782 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 40 and 45 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.

What does Jess L and Miriam B Stevens Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (55%), Education (30%), Health (3%).

Who are Jess L and Miriam B Stevens Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Salvation Army ($1.2M), The University of Tulsa ($500k), Eagle Family Ministries Inc ($500k).

Does Jess L and Miriam B Stevens Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Jess L and Miriam B Stevens Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Where is Jess L and Miriam B Stevens Foundation based?

Jess L and Miriam B Stevens Foundation is based in OK.

Jess L and Miriam B Stevens Foundation

Jess L and Miriam B Stevens Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Jess L and Miriam B Stevens Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.1M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$252k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Human Services$2.8MEducation$1.5MHealth$150kFood & Nutrition$145kYouth Development$142kCrime & Legal$128kCommunity Improvement$71kReligion$50kOther$0

02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k19 grants · $99k
$10k–50k19 grants · $283k
$50k–250k5 grants · $425k
$250k+1 grant · $252k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$6.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
SALVATION ARMY	$252,210
MARRIAGE AND FAMILY INITIATIVE	$100,000
EAGLE FAMILY MINISTRIES	$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF TULSA	$100,000
WOVENLIFE	$75,000
MCCALL'S CHAPEL SCHOOL	$50,000
THE PARENT CHILD CENTER OF TULSA	$33,800
HARVEST HOUSE	$25,000
ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY	$25,000
TULSA LAWYERS FOR CHILDREN	$20,000
LIFE SENIOR SERVICES INC	$15,000
CAMP LOUGHRIDGE	$15,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES	$15,000
NEIGHBOR FOR NEIGHBOR	$15,000
STREET SCHOOL INC	$15,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

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

How this is measured

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

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$5.0M · 47 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

47 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.0M

$5k

Still filing today

70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther

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

The University of Tulsa
5× · 2021–2025 · $500k · revenue +6%
MA
Marriage and Family Initiative Inc
5× · 2021–2025 · $500k · revenue +50% · 83% of their budget
MC
McCalls Chapel School Inc
5× · 2021–2025 · $250k · revenue +11%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2021 · $5k

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.

04Its 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.

Community Action Project of Tulsa County Inc

Community action project of tulsa county inc.'s (cap tulsa) mission is to help young children in lower-income families grow up and achieve economic success.

Human Services

Tulsa Casa Inc

Tulsa casa is organized to speak for the best interests of abused and neglected children in court. we promote and support volunteer representation for the children in an effort to provide each child a safe, permanent, nurturing home.

Civil Rights

Family Safety Center Inc

The family safety center exists to promote safety and justice in tulsa county through co-located multi-disciplinary services that offer protection, hope and healing to victims of intimate partner and family violence, sexual assault,…

Crime & Legal

The City Lights Foundation of Oklahoma

Our mission is rooted in the belief that meaningful relationships restore communities. through relational service and dignified housing solutions, we work to help people move from surviving to thriving.

Human Services

Tulsa Neighborhood Networks Inc

Provide the poor of the city of tulsa, oklahoma an opportunity to improve their quality of life through guidance and training in the areas of education, employment, family skills, healthcare, housing, socialization and spirituality.

Community Improvement

111 Tulsa Inc

111Tulsa exists to mobilize the local church to see that no child is without a family in Tulsa County.

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McCalls Community Homes Inc

Mccall's mission is to enable individuals with developmental disabilities to be productive members of society; to be good neighbors in the community; to make independent, responsible choices; and to live dignified, happy, and self…

Housing & Shelter

Tulsa Day Center Inc

To serve those who are experiencing or at risk for homelessness.

Housing & Shelter

City Rescue Mission Inc

Our mission is to lead our community by serving people experiencing or at risk of homelessness with help, hope, and healing, in the spirit of excellence, under the call of christ.

Human Services

Family Hope House Inc

Family Hope House empowers families through therapy, education, and advocacy. As Oklahoma's sole adoption competent mental health agency, we support foster and adoptive children for lasting stability and success.

Health

Tulsa Volunteers of America Senior Housing Inc

Provides housing to elderly persons under section 202 of the national housing act under agreement with the department of hud.

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Oklahoma Indian Legal Services Inc

Oklahoma indian legal services is dedicated to representation where federal indian, tribal and treaty law arise. oils is a nonprofit corporation primarily funded by the legal services corporation (lsc). establisehd in 1981, its purpose is…

Crime & Legal

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of Green Country Inc; the most unlike its peers is Marriage and Family Initiative Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 49 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

34/35

Grantees still filing

23/35

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,056,610Education$1,387,500Human Services$1,276,036Food & Nutrition$145,000Youth Development$85,000Civil Rights$80,000Crime & Legal$47,500

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.

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.

Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of OklahomaOK47.3× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · Sarkeys Foundation · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation · One Gas Foundation Inc · Oneok Foundation Inc · George Kaiser Family Foundation · Tulsa Area United Way

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jess L and Miriam B Stevens Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jess L and Miriam B Stevens Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

16get no government money at all

9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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