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Me Stevens-Acct A-Church Fund Xxx-Xx-Xxxx

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.

$1k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$336
Largest
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Religion$30kArts & Culture$28kRecreation & Sports$15kEducation$8kCivil Rights$3kHousing & Shelter$3kHuman Services$2kHealth$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$300
Median grant
1
States reached
$259k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FEDERATED CHURCH$336
KISHWAUKEE CONCERT BAND$300
KIRKLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY$219
SYCAMORE PARK DISTRICT$168
02The need
03

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%KISHWAUKEE CONCERT BAND: $500 → 13%KISHWAUKEE CONCERT BAND: $500 → 13%KISHWAUKEE CONCERT BAND: $500 → 13%KIRKLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY: $2k → 13%KIRKLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $825 → 13%FEDERATED CHURCH: $6k → 13%FEDERATED CHURCH: $5k → 13%FEDERATED CHURCH: $5k → 13%FEDERATED CHURCH: $5k → 13%FEDERATED CHURCH: $5k → 13%FEDERATED CHURCH: $4k → 13%SYCAMORE PARK DISTRICT: $3k → 13%SYCAMORE PARK DISTRICT: $3k → 13%SYCAMORE PARK DISTRICT: $3k → 13%SYCAMORE PARK DISTRICT: $3k → 13%SYCAMORE PARK DISTRICT: $2k → 13%CASA DEKALB COUNTY INC: $2k → 13%SYCAMORE PARK DISTRICT: $1k → 13%DEKALB MUNICIPAL BAND: $1k → 13%SYCAMORE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $600 → 13%SYCAMORE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $600 → 13%CASA DEKALB COUNTY INC: $580 → 13%PAY-IT-FORWARD HOUSE: $500 → 13%BEN GORDON CENTER: $500 → 13%BEN GORDON CENTER: $500 → 13%JUST MAKE IT HAPPEN: $5k → 13%EGYPTIAN THEATER: $2k → 13%KISHWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCH: $2k → 13%ELLWOOD HOUSE MUSEUM: $2k → 13%EGYPTIAN THEATER: $1k → 13%KISHWAUKEE CONCERT BAND: $1k → 13%KISHWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCH: $1k → 13%ELLWOOD HOUSE MUSEUM: $1k → 13%ELLWOOD HOUSE MUSEUM: $1k → 13%JOSEPH F GLIDDEN HOMESTEAD: $1k → 13%JUST MAKE IT HAPPEN: $1k → 13%JOSEPH F GLIDDEN HOMESTEAD: $900 → 13%ELLWOOD HOUSE MUSEUM: $900 → 13%EGYPTIAN THEATER: $500 → 13%KISHWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCH: $500 → 13%JUST MAKE IT HAPPEN: $500 → 13%JUST MAKE IT HAPPEN: $500 → 13%GURLER HERITAGE ASSOC: $500 → 13%EGYPTIAN THEATER: $500 → 13%KISHWAUKEE CONCERT BAND: $500 → 13%GREATER KISHWAUKEE AREA: $500 → 13%JUST MAKE IT HAPPEN: $500 → 13%KISHWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCH: $500 → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$90k · 19 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue 0% since the first grant, against -7% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
6

Total granted

$90k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
-7%

Still filing today

21%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureCivil RightsOther
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

  • FC
    FEDERATED CHURCH
    7× · 2019–2025 · $30k
  • SP
    SYCAMORE PARK DISTRICT
    7× · 2019–2025 · $15k
  • JM
    JUST MAKE IT HAPPEN
    6× · 2019–2024 · $8k

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $500
  • MM
    MIDWEST MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
    one grant, 2020 · $450
  • MM
    MIDWEST MUSEUM
    one grant, 2019 · $400
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/7
Grantees still filing
2/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FEDERATED CHURCH: $29,551 · OtherFEDERATED CHURCHSYCAMORE PARK DISTRICT: $15,325 · OtherSYCAMORE PARK DISTRICTJUST MAKE IT HAPPEN: $7,500 · OtherJUST MAKE IT HAPPENELLWOOD HOUSE MUSEUM: $5,250 · OtherELLWOOD HOUSE MUSEUMEGYPTIAN THEATER: $4,400 · OtherKISHWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $3,700 · OtherKIRKLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY: $3,175 · Other+15 more: $17,344 · Other+15 moreKISHWAUKEE CONCERT BAND: $3,300 · Arts & CultureCOR CANTIAMO NFP: $350 · Arts & CultureCASA DeKalb County Inc: $2,771 · Civil Rights
Other$86,245Arts & Culture$3,650Civil Rights$2,771

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKISHWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $3,700 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetKISHWAUKEE CONCERT BAND: $3,300 over 6y, 20% of budgetCASA DeKalb County Inc: $2,771 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPAY IT FORWARD HOUSE NFP: $1,300 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetREGIONAL ACCESS & MOBILIZATION PROJECT INC: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 KISHWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds KISHWAUKEE CONCERT BAND ↗
  • Who funds CASA DeKalb County Inc ↗
  • Who funds PAY IT FORWARD HOUSE NFP ↗
  • Who funds REGIONAL ACCESS & MOBILIZATION PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds MIDWEST MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds COR CANTIAMO NFP ↗

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.

Dekalb County Community FoundationIL30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dekalb County Community Foundation · Ideal Industries Foundation · Katz Family Foundation · Douglas C & Lynn M Roberts Family Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Me Stevens-Acct A-Church Fund Xxx-Xx-Xxxx funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Me Stevens-Acct A-Church Fund Xxx-Xx-Xxxx. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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