South Carolina · Private foundation
John T Stevens Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $533k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 46
- Grants FY2025
- 48
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $71,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 40 to 54
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations John T Stevens Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $134k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 46 | $533k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 48 | $528k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 44 | $412k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 45 | $514k | 24% |
| FY2021 | 40 | $426k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 41 | $363k | 22% |
| FY2019 | 54 | $400k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 47 | $399k | 55% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mt Calvary Outreach Center Inc | $158,000 | 9 | 31% |
| Abney Baptist Church | $150,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Lancaster Childrens Home | $136,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Kershaw Area Resource Exchange | $129,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Operation Rudolph Inc | $121,000 | 9 | 100% |
| Pleasant Valley Baptist Church | $77,700 | 7 | n/a |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $75,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Arts Center of Kershaw County Inc | $74,771 | 6 | 4% |
| Lancaster Spca | $67,500 | 6 | 3% |
| Lancaster County Council of the Arts | $67,460 | 7 | 6% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mt Calvary Outreach Center Inc | $158,000 | 9 | 31% |
| Abney Baptist Church | $150,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Lancaster Childrens Home | $136,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Kershaw Area Resource Exchange | $129,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Operation Rudolph Inc | $121,000 | 9 | 100% |
| Pleasant Valley Baptist Church | $77,700 | 7 | n/a |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $75,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Arts Center of Kershaw County Inc | $74,771 | 6 | 4% |
| Lancaster Spca | $67,500 | 6 | 3% |
| Lancaster County Council of the Arts | $67,460 | 7 | 6% |
| Kershaw Chamber of Commerce | $61,150 | 9 | n/a |
| Military Spousal Support Center | $60,500 | 7 | n/a |
| Kershaw Community Park Council Inc | $56,000 | 7 | 43% |
| Kershaw Second Baptist Church | $53,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Lancaster County Council on Aging | $52,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Sistercare Inc | $44,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Youth Serve | $41,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Bethany Westville Baptist Church | $41,000 | 5 | n/a |
| University of South Carolina Educational Foundation | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Christian Services Inc | $39,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Lancaster Dixie Baseball Inc | $35,000 | 7 | 10% |
| Providence Baptist Church | $34,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Sand Hill Missionary Baptist Church | $33,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Kershaw County Housing Authority | $32,400 | 3 | n/a |
| United Way of Kershaw County | $32,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Palmetto Council Inc Scouting America | $31,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Heath Springs Baptist Church | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Boys & Girls Club of Kershaw County | $30,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Educational Foundation of USCL Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| United Way of Lancaster County Inc | $17,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Community Medical Clinic of Kershaw | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| National Steeplechase Museum Inc | $14,500 | 2 | 15% |
| All for One Ministries | $14,450 | 1 | n/a |
| Doby's Mill Elementary School PTA | $14,000 | 4 | 15% |
| Kershaw Area Music Supporters | $12,000 | 3 | 19% |
| Antioch Baptist Church | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rainbow Promise Enterprise | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Historic Camden Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Kershaw County School District | $8,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Helping Hearts Senior Services | $7,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Lancaster County Community Center | $6,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Columbus Parker Track Club | $5,500 | 4 | 12% |
| Belmont Baptist Church | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Carolina Community Care Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lancaster County Society for Historical Preservation Inc | $4,219 | 2 | n/a |
| Kirkland Community Center | $4,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Camden Primary Partners Inc | $3,300 | 1 | 13% |
| Hanging Rock United Methodist Church | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Childrens Council | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Faith Hope & Victory Christian Church | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Lancaster County Partners for Youth | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of the Camden Archives & Museum | $500 | 1 | 1% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 85 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
John T Stevens Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Nutramax Family Foundation · The Springs Close Foundation Inc · Comporium Foundation Inc · Arras Foundation · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Brady Foundation · Leadership Kershaw Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Health Foundation of Kershaw County · Kershawhealth · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina
How this is measured
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About John T Stevens Foundation
- How much does John T Stevens Foundation give?
- John T Stevens Foundation reported 46 grants totaling $532,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 40 and 54 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does John T Stevens Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (19%), Human Services (17%), Recreation & Sports (13%).
- Who are John T Stevens Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mt Calvary Outreach Center Inc ($158k), Abney Baptist Church ($151k), Lancaster Childrens Home ($136k).
- Does John T Stevens Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does John T Stevens Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as John T Stevens Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Nutramax Family Foundation, The Springs Close Foundation Inc, Comporium Foundation Inc.
- Where is John T Stevens Foundation based?
- John T Stevens Foundation is based in SC.
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