· Private foundation
John T Stevens Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $100k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $362k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $71k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TOWN OF KERSHAW | $71,000 |
| MT CALVARY OUTREACH CENTER | $30,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $30,000 |
| LANCASTER CHILDREN'S HOME INC | $30,000 |
| CROSS ROAD BAPTIST CHURCH | $23,000 |
| NEW HORIZON COMMUNITY CHURCH | $20,000 |
| OPERATION RUDOLPH | $20,000 |
| KERSHAW AREA RESOURCE EXCHANGE | $15,000 |
| FOOD FOR THE SOUL | $15,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KERSHAW COUNTY | $15,000 |
| LANCASTER SPCA | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY MEDICAL CLINIC OF KERSHAW COUNTY | $15,000 |
| NORTH CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL | $14,000 |
| CAMDEN HIGH SCHOOL | $13,500 |
| LANCASTER COUNTY COUNCIL OF THE ARTS | $12,000 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +44% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.
78 repeat relationships: 42 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 4 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
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
- MUMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINAone grant, 2018 · $15k
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.
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,…
How this is measured
33 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. 33 of the 137 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 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John T Stevens Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John T Stevens Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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