· Private foundation
Michael Stedman Foundation
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.
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 $10k7 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Achieve Services | $30,000 |
| Confidence Learning Center | $5,000 |
| Benet Hill Monastery | $5,000 |
| Hospital Sisters Mission Outreach | $5,000 |
| Vitreo Retinal Surgery Foundation | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| North Anoka Co FoodShelf | $1,000 |
| Springbrook Nature Center Foundation | $1,000 |
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, $137k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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 +33% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ASACHIEVE SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $137k · revenue +9%
- VSVITREORETINAL SURGERY FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +83%
- BHBENET HILL MONASTERY OF COLORADO SPRINGS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- MCMORRISON COUNTY CHAPLAINCYone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -2%
- AFALS FUNDRAISERone grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue -23%
- FAFeingold Associationone grant, 2017 · $500
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.
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Madonna Rehabilitation Hospitals is a Catholic organization that exists to provide medical and physical rehabilitation services to children and adults throughout the nation. We rehabilitate those who have sustained injuries or disabling…
ALS Worldwide brings guidance, compassion and hope to thousands of ALS patients and their families in more than 150 countries. ALS Worldwide fills a unique niche of free counseling and information for people living with ALS/MND via…
We educate women to lead and influence. we educate at all degree levels through valuing and integrating the liberal arts and professional education within the catholic intellectual tradition, see schedule oemphasizing scholarly inquiry and…
To continue christ's healing love through delivery of competent & compassionate healthcare in an environment sensitive to the needs of all people. the hospital is committed to providing a broad range of quality inpatient and outpatient…
Research and education is at the core of who we are. tria orthopaedic center research institute, housed within tria orthopaedic center, advances the science of orthopaedic medicine through a rich blend of education and research programs.
The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."
Improve patient care and the health of our community through research and education.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 15 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 ACHIEVE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds VITREORETINAL SURGERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BENET HILL MONASTERY OF COLORADO SPRINGS INC ↗
- Who funds CONFIDENCE LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Hospital Sisters Mission Outreach Corporation ↗
- Who funds ALIGHT ↗
- Who funds MORRISON COUNTY CHAPLAINCY ↗
- Who funds PACER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Springbrook Nature Center Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALS FUNDRAISER ↗
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: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Michael Stedman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michael Stedman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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