· Private foundation
John T Stevens Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $100k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $362k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $71k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TOWN OF KERSHAW | $71,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $30,000 |
| LANCASTER CHILDREN'S HOME INC | $30,000 |
| MT CALVARY OUTREACH CENTER | $30,000 |
| CROSS ROAD BAPTIST CHURCH | $23,000 |
| NEW HORIZON COMMUNITY CHURCH | $20,000 |
| OPERATION RUDOLPH | $20,000 |
| COMMUNITY MEDICAL CLINIC OF KERSHAW COUNTY | $15,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KERSHAW COUNTY | $15,000 |
| LANCASTER SPCA | $15,000 |
| KERSHAW AREA RESOURCE EXCHANGE | $15,000 |
| FOOD FOR THE SOUL | $15,000 |
| NORTH CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL | $14,000 |
| CAMDEN HIGH SCHOOL | $13,500 |
| BETHANY WESTVILLE BAPTIST CHURCH | $12,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $575k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
77 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MCMT CALVARY OUTREACH CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $158k · revenue +18% · 31% of their budget
- LCLANCASTER CHILDRENS HOME8× · 2018–2025 · $136k · revenue +138%
- KAKERSHAW AREA RESOURCE EXCHANGE8× · 2017–2025 · $129k · revenue +403%
Funded once
- SBSECOND BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $35k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $20k
- CMCOMMUNITY MEDICAL CENTER CAMDENone grant, 2017 · $15k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Enhance public safety and the quality of life in lancaster by engaging the community and advancing current crime prevention strategies.
The best healthcare, for the lowest cost, for the most people.
The lancaster public library inspires, empowers, and strengthens our community by connecting people with information, ideas, and enriching experiences.
Support member businesses through education and promotion, and support the quality of life in lancaster county through promoting compatible economic development.
The mission of Lancaster Community Center is to work for local non-profits, organizations, and churches to provide a facility for fundraising, community service, and education.
The children's museum of lancaster (hands-on-house) has the following mission: creating landmark learning experiences for children and their families through play.
Provide resources, services, and expertise in a collaborative manner to and with the member libraries in order to effectively serve our communities
To inspire curiosity, creativity, and confidence by fostering an inclusive environment for hands-on stem exploration. we actively seek to make our facility and educational programs accessible to all.
Promote business in lancaster county, south carolina
Support the arts locally through local cultural experiences
To empower all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as caring, responsible, productive citizens.
The lancaster community library is a center for the cultural, intellectual, and recreational pursuits of the community. through its materials, programs, and services, the library promotes literacy, provides lifetime learning opportunities,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Kershaw County and the most unlike its peers is The Lancaster County Partners for Youth. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
33 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 138 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds MT CALVARY OUTREACH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER CHILDRENS HOME ↗
- Who funds KERSHAW AREA RESOURCE EXCHANGE ↗
- Who funds OPERATION RUDOLPH INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ARTS CENTER OF KERSHAW COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER SPCA ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER COUNTY COUNCIL OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds KERSHAW COMMUNITY PARK COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds SISTERCARE INC ↗
- Who funds University of South Carolina Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds Christian Services Inc ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER DIXIE BASEBALL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KERSHAW COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PALMETTO COUNCIL INC SCOUTING AMERICA ↗
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.
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
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 John T Stevens 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.
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.
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